Thursday, January 31, 2013

In the news, Thursday, January 31, 2013


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WED 30      INDEX      FRI 01
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from KHQ.com

Chase Ends In Crash In Northeast Spokane
This was two blocks from my apartment. - C. S.

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from KXLY 4 New


10 years ago tomorrow one of Spokane's hometown heroes died when the space shuttle Columbia disintegrated in the Texas sky just 16 minutes before landing. Although gone, he remains an inspiration.



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from Space.com (& CollectSpace)

What is the Moon Made Of?
The moon's surface tells the story of the solar system's beginnings.

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from The Spokesman-Review

A guide to new commenting features on our website
Ryan Pitts      The Spokesman-Review




Turkish ag group tries to trademark ‘IDAHO’

State hiring for pot work
Dozens attend forum about weed consultant

Obesity ideas not always correct

Feds unseal indictment against developer, his wife, girlfriend

Data helps teachers learn about kindergartners’ abilities
New assessment gives baseline for funding

Last Andrews sister dies

Hagel cites war experience
Confirmation hearing today for defense nominee

Lower fish catch limits approved
New England industry in trouble

Giffords gives emotional plea at violence hearing
NRA tells Senate panel gun bans wouldn’t work

S. Korea launches rocket
Satellite is first sent from nation’s own soil

Glitch may hurt some families

Senate panel hears training wage bill
Opponents call measure attack on minimum pay

Hostess selects lead bidder for Twinkies

Economy shifted into reverse in fourth quarter

787 production plans on track, Boeing says
U.S. aviation officials ask for full operating history of batteries

Toyota recalls over million cars
Certain Lexus IS, Corolla models on list

Editorial: Electoral vote scheme deserves to go nowhere
While I often agree with the Spokesman-Review, and often do not agree with Matt Shea, in this case, I think Matt Shea is quite correct in his porposal, and that this is in fact how the founding fathers intended the electoral system to work. If this procedure were in place nationwide, it would certainly change how campaigns are run, making every district important, and not just a few big states; and that could change voting patterns, for which reason speculation as to the effect on the previous election has no bearing on future elections. I remember this topic being discussed 45 years ago, and I took the same position then. - C. S.

Outdoors issues hot topic in Olympia
Rich Landers      The Spokesman-Review

Doctor K: Surgeons must learn physical, mental skills
Anthony L. Komaroff      Universal Uclick

Journal can be a helpful tool for gardeners

Landmarks: Jack and Dan’s has deep roots in Gonzaga district

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In the news, Wednesday, January 30, 2013


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TUE 29      INDEX      THU 31
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from Daily Mail (UK)

Outrage as high school recites Pledge in Arabic saying 'One Nation Under Allah'
Fury is brewing at Rocky Mountain High School, in Colorado, after a multicultural student group were encouraged to recite the Pledge of Allegiance over the loudspeaker in Arabic - replacing 'one nation under God' with 'one nation under Allah'.

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from KXLY.com

Bill proposes welfare recipients be drug tested

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from The Spokesman-Review

Shea bill targets electoral voting
Change would give presidential votes to each district

General urges end to Egypt protests
Military intervention possible, he warns

Dozens of bodies found in Aleppo
Syria government, rebels place blame on each other

China choking on dirty air’s economic costs

Police: Outdoor flares started fatal club fire

BP concedes criminal guilt
Oil giant will pay $4 billion in plea deal over worker deaths

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In brief:  From Wire Reports

Execution stayed for woman on death row

Huntsville, Texas – The first woman scheduled to be executed in the U.S. since 2010 won a reprieve Tuesday, mere hours before she was scheduled to be taken to the Texas death chamber.

State District Judge Larry Mitchell, in Dallas, rescheduled Kimberly McCarthy’s punishment for April 3 so lawyers for the former nursing home therapist could have more time to pursue an appeal focused on whether her predominantly white jury was improperly selected on the basis of race. McCarthy is black.

Dallas County prosecutors, who initially contested the motion to reschedule, chose to not appeal the ruling.

The 51-year-old McCarthy was convicted and sent to death row for the 1997 stabbing, beating and robbery of a 71-year-old neighbor. She learned of the reprieve less than five hours before she was scheduled for lethal injection, already in a small holding cell a few feet from the death chamber at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Huntsville Unit.


LaHood steps down from Cabinet post

Washington – Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, the last Republican left in President Barack Obama’s Cabinet, announced Tuesday he is stepping down.

In a note to department staff, LaHood said he would remain at the helm until a replacement is confirmed to ensure “a smooth transition for the department and all the important work we still have to do.”

The former seven-term congressman from Peoria, Ill., has led the department since 2009 and was not expected to stay on through a second term. Among those who have been prominently mentioned as a possible successor is Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, whose mayoral term ends June 30 and who played a key role in writing a provision of last year’s federal transportation bill that is designed to speed up projects throughout the country, including in Los Angeles.


Judge won’t block city’s nudity ban

San Francisco – A federal judge cleared the way Tuesday for the city of San Francisco to ban most displays of public nudity, ruling that an ordinance set to take effect Friday does not violate the free speech rights of residents and visitors who like going out in the buff.

U.S. District Court Judge Edward Chen refused to block the ban temporarily or to allow a lawsuit challenging it to proceed.

“In spite of what plaintiffs argue, nudity in and of itself is not inherently expressive,” Chen wrote in an 18-page opinion.

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted 7-4 last month to prohibit residents and visitors over age 5 from exposing their genitals on public streets, in parks or plazas or while using public transit.

The measure was introduced in response to a group of nudists that regularly gathers in the city’s predominantly gay Castro District.


Court lets retailers add credit card surcharge

A recent federal lawsuit now allows some retailers to add a surcharge to purchases made by credit card.

It’s not certain many retailers will do so, said Craig Shearman, a spokesman with the National Retail Federation.

The class-action lawsuit was initiated to challenge high “swipe” fees charged by credit card companies to merchants. The preliminary court ruling last year included the option of retailers adding surcharges, but it could be reversed, Shearman said.

The new optional charges must be exactly the amount a retailer pays in swipe fees, up to 4 percent of the purchase price. If a retailer decides to levy the charge, it must be disclosed to the consumer at the point of sale.

In addition, the surcharge option is not allowed in 10 states that prohibit credit card surcharges. The ruling said any retailer doing business in any of those states can’t add surcharges in the other 40 states. As a result, nearly every large national retailer will not participate, Shearman said.

No Spokane retailer contacted by The Spokesman-Review plans to levy the surcharge.


Hostess set to announce top Twinkie bidders

NEW YORK – The indestructible Twinkie appears to be one step closer to a comeback.

Hostess Brands is close to announcing that it has picked two investment firms – C. Dean Metropoulos & Co. and Apollo Global Management – as the lead bidders for its Twinkies and other snack cakes, according to a source close to the situation who was not authorized to comment publicly on the talks.

The joint “stalking horse” bid would set the floor for an auction process that lets competitors make better offers. A judge would have to approve any final sale.


Phoenix leads nation in home price increase

WASHINGTON – U.S. home prices accelerated in November compared with a year ago, pushed higher by rising sales and a tighter supply of available homes.

The Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller 20-city home price index rose 5.5 percent in November compared with the same month a year ago. That’s the largest year-over-year gain in six years.

The largest gain was in Phoenix, where prices jumped nearly 23 percent.

New York was the only city to report a drop from a year ago.

County files casino plan objection
Commissioners’ statement cites impact to Fairchild

Police use of force review wrapping up
Panel looks at process of internal investigations

Jim Kershner’s this day in history
Good news arrived from Olympia for the Cheney Normal School (today known as Eastern Washington University).  The House Appropriations Committee approved a bill for rebuilding the main college building, which had burned down in 1912. Final passage was assured.  The $300,000 building would be finished in 1915 and is today known as Showalter Hall.

Landers: Outdoors issues hot topic in Olympia

Shawn Vestal: What’s scary is this guy’s definition of what’s racist

Beefing up the ballpark
Second upgrade since 1958 bringing Avista Stadium ‘up to today’s standards’

Healthy oats help feed hungry
Breakfast product benefits customers, helps stock food bank
Tom Sowa      The Spokesman-Review

Making the cut
Butchering trends create fresh, meaty opportunities

Crowd-pleasing pitcher
Lemony margarita from Rick Bayless’ new cookbook great for game day

Winning snack attack plan
Why not make your own snacks, wings for Super Bowl?

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from The Star

Every inch counts
Ice climber at Million Dollar Mile

Civil meeting makes for progress in Coulee Dam
Two sides discuss sewer plant options

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January 31 in history


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Events


314 – Pope Sylvester I succeeds Pope Miltiades.

1504 – France cedes Naples to Aragon.

1578 – The Battle of Gembloux takes place.

1606 – Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes is executed for plotting against Parliament and King James.

1747 – The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital.

1801 – John Marshall is appointed the Chief Justice of the United States.

1814 – Gervasio Antonio de Posadas becomes Supreme Director of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata (present-day Argentina).

1846 – After the Milwaukee Bridge War, Juneautown and Kilbourntown unify as the City of Milwaukee.

1848 – John C. Frémont is court-martialed for mutiny and disobeying orders.

1849 – Corn Laws are abolished in the United Kingdom pursuant to legislation in 1846.

1862 – American Civil War: The state of Louisiana takes over the U.S. Mint at New Orleans.

1862 – Alvan Graham Clark discovers the white dwarf star Sirius B, a companion of Sirius, through an 18.5-inch (47 cm) telescope now located at Northwestern University.

1860s - Price, Birch & Company
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1865 – American Civil War: The 13th Amendment to the Constitution, abolishing slavery in the United States, is passed by Congress and submitted to the states for ratification.

1865 – American Civil War: Confederate General Robert E. Lee becomes general-in-chief.

1867 – Maronite nationalist leader Youssef Bey Karam leaves Lebanon on board a French ship bound for Algeria.

1897 – Czechoslav Trade Union Association is founded in Prague.

1891 – History of Portugal: The first attempt at a Portuguese republican revolution breaks out in the northern city of Porto.

1900 – Datu Muhammad Salleh is assassinated in Kampung Teboh, Tambunan, ending the Mat Salleh Rebellion.

1915 – World War I: Germany is the first to make large-scale use of poison gas in warfare in the Battle of Bolimów against Russia.

1917 – World War I: Germany announces that its U-boats will resume unrestricted submarine warfare after a two-year hiatus.

1918 – A series of accidental collisions on a misty Scottish night leads to the loss of two Royal Navy submarines with over a hundred lives, and damage to another five British warships.

1919 – The Battle of George Square takes place in Glasgow, Scotland.

1928 – Russian Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky was exiled to Kazakhstan.

1929 – The Soviet Union exiles Leon Trotsky.

1930 – 3M begins marketing Scotch Tape.

1942 – World War II: Allied forces are defeated by the Japanese at the Battle of Malaya and retreat to the island of Singapore.

1943 – World War II: German Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus surrenders to the Soviets at Stalingrad, followed 2 days later by the remainder of his Sixth Army, ending one of the war's fiercest battles.

1944 – World War II: During the Anzio campaign the 1st Ranger Battalion (Darby's Rangers) is destroyed behind enemy lines in a heavily outnumbered encounter at Battle of Cisterna, Italy.

1945 – World War II: US Army private Eddie Slovik is executed for desertion, the first such execution of an American soldier since the Civil War.

1945 – World War II: About 3,000 inmates from the Stutthof concentration camp are forcibly marched into the Baltic Sea at Palmnicken (now Yantarny, Russia) and executed.

1945 – World War II: The end of fighting in the Battle of Hill 170 during the Burma Campaign, in which the British 3 Commando Brigade repulsed a Japanese counterattack on their positions and precipitated a general retirement from the Arakan Peninsula.

1946 – Yugoslavia's new constitution, modeling that of the Soviet Union, establishes six constituent republics (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia).

1946 – The Democratic Republic of Vietnam introduces the đồng to replace the French Indochinese piastre at par.

1949 – These Are My Children, the first television daytime soap opera is broadcast by the NBC station in Chicago.

1950 – U.S. President Harry S. Truman announces support for a program to develop the hydrogen bomb.

1953 – A North Sea flood causes over 1,800 deaths in the Netherlands and over 300 in the United Kingdom.

1957 – Eight people on the ground in Pacoima, California are killed following the mid-air collision between a Douglas DC-7 airliner and a Northrop F-89 Scorpion fighter jet.

1958 – Explorer program: Explorer 1: The first successful launch of an American satellite into orbit.

1958 – James Van Allen discovers the Van Allen radiation belt.

1961 – Project Mercury: Mercury-Redstone 2: Ham the Chimp travels into outer space.

1968 – Vietnam War: Viet Cong attack the United States embassy in Saigon, and other attacks, in the early morning hours, later grouped together as the Tet Offensive.

1968 – Nauru gains independence from Australia.

1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 14: Astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell, aboard a Saturn V, lift off for a mission to the Fra Mauro Highlands on the Moon.

1971 – The Winter Soldier Investigation, organized by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War to publicize war crimes and atrocities by Americans and allies in Vietnam, begins in Detroit.

1990 – The first McDonald's in the Soviet Union opens in Moscow.

1995 – President Bill Clinton authorizes a $20 billion loan to Mexico to stabilize its economy.

1996 – An explosives-filled truck rams into the gates of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka in Colombo, Sri Lanka killing at least 86 and injuring 1,400.

1996 – Comet Hyakutake is discovered by Japanese amateur astronomer Yuji Hyakutake.

2000 – Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crash: An MD-83, experiencing horizontal stabilizer problems, crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Point Mugu, California, killing all 88 aboard.

2001 – In the Netherlands, a Scottish court convicts Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi and acquits another Libyan citizen for their part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988.

2003 – The Waterfall rail accident occurs near Waterfall, New South Wales, Australia.

2007 – Suspects are arrested in Birmingham in the UK, accused of plotting the kidnap, holding and eventual beheading of a serving Muslim British soldier in Iraq.

2009 – In Kenya, at least 113 people are killed and over 200 injured following an oil spillage ignition in Molo, days after a massive fire at a Nakumatt supermarket in Nairobi killed at least 25 people.

2010 – Avatar becomes the first film to gross over $2 billion worldwide.

2011 – A winter storm hits North America for the second time in the same month, causing $1.8 billion in damage across the United States and Canada and killing 24 people.

2013 – An explosion at the Pemex Executive Tower in Mexico City kills at least 33 people and injures more than 100.



Saints' Days and Holy Days

Traditional Western

Peter Nolasco, Confessor.     Double.


Contemporary Western

Blessed Ludovica
Geminianus
John Bosco
Marcella


Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran

Samuel Shoemaker (Episcopal Church (USA))


Eastern Orthodox

January 31 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Saints

Martyr Tryphaena of Cyzicus (1st century)
Martyrs Victorinus, Victor, Nicephorus, Claudius, Diodorus, Serapion,
      and Papias, at Corinth (251 or 258)
Holy Wonderworkers and Unmercenaries Cyrus and John, and Martyrs Athanasia
      and her daughters Theoctista, Theodota, and Eudoxia, at Canopus in Egypt (311)
Martyrs Saturninus, Thyrsus and Victor, at Alexandria
Martyrs Tharsicius, Zoticus, Cyriacus, and their companions, at Alexandaria
Saint Julius of Aegina (Julius of Novara), missionary priest to northern Italy (401)
Saint Athanasius, Bishop of Methone (ca. 880)

Pre-Schism Western Saints

Saint Geminian of Modena, Deacon and later successor of the Bishop
      of Modena (348)
Saint Marcella of Rome (410)
Saint Madoes (Madianus), a saint who has left his name to a place
      in the Carse of Gowrie in Scotland
Saint Áedan (Maedoc), first Bishop of Ferns in Co. Wexford in Ireland,
      where he also founded and became abbot of a monastery (626)
Saint Adamnan, born in Ireland, he became a monk at Coldingham,
      now in Scotland (681)
Saint Wilgils, father of St Willibrord, born in Northumbria in England, he settled
      on the banks of the River Humber and lived as a hermit (ca. 700)[
Saint Bobinus, monk at Moutier-la-Celle. Later he became Bishop of Troyes (ca. 766)
Saint Ulphia (Wulfia, Olfe, Wulfe), hermitess near Amiens in France (8th c.)
Saint Eusebius, monk at St Gall in Switzerland and later lived as a hermit
      on Mt St Victor in the Vorarlberg (884)
Saint John Angelus, born in Venice in Italy, he became a monk at Pomposa (ca. 1050)

Post-Schism Orthodox Saints

Venerable Nikita, recluse of the Kiev Caves, Bishop of Novgorod (1108)
Venerable Pachomius, abbot of Keno Lake Monastery (1525)
New Monk-martyr Elias (Ardunis) of Mt. Athos and Kalamata (1686)
Saint Arsenius the New, of Paros (1877)

Other commemorations

Synaxis of the Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos Koroniotissa or Dakryrroousis,
      at Lixouri, Cephalonia (1867)
Repose of Eugene Poselyanin (Pogozhev), spiritual writer (1931)
Repose of Elder Codratus (Condratus) of Karakalou monastery, Mt. Athos (1940)
Repose of Hieroschemamonk Stephen (Ignatenko) of Kislovodsk (1973)



January 30 in history


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JAN 29      INDEX      JAN 31
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Events


1018 – Poland and the Holy Roman Empire conclude the Peace of Bautzen.

1607 – An estimated 200 square miles (51,800 ha) along the coasts of the Bristol Channel and Severn Estuary in England are destroyed by massive flooding, resulting in an estimated 2,000 deaths.

1648 – Eighty Years' War: The Treaty of Münster and Osnabrück is signed, ending the conflict between the Netherlands and Spain.

1649 – King Charles I of England is beheaded.

1661 – Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England is ritually executed two years after his death, on the anniversary of the execution of the monarch he himself deposed.

1667 – The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth cedes Kiev, Smolensk, and left-bank Ukraine to the Tsardom of Russia in the Treaty of Andrusovo.

1703 – The Forty-seven Ronin, under the command of Ōishi Kuranosuke, avenge the death of their master.

1789 – Tây Sơn forces emerge victorious against Qing armies and liberate the capital Thăng Long.

1790 – The first boat specializing as a lifeboat is tested on the River Tyne.

1806 – The original Lower Trenton Bridge (also called the Trenton Makes the World Takes Bridge), which spans the Delaware River between Morrisville, Pennsylvania and Trenton, New Jersey, is opened.

1815 – Thomas Jefferson’s 6,500 volumes are used to re-establish the burned U.S. Library of Congress.

1820 – Edward Bransfield sights the Trinity Peninsula and claims the discovery of Antarctica.

1826 – The Menai Suspension Bridge, considered the world's first modern suspension bridge, connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the north West coast of Wales, is opened.

1835 – In the first assassination attempt against a President of the United States, Richard Lawrence attempts to shoot president Andrew Jackson, but fails and is subdued by a crowd, including several congressmen as well as Jackson himself.

1841 – A fire destroys two-thirds of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.

1847 – Yerba Buena, California is renamed San Francisco.

1858 – The first Hallé concert is given in Manchester, England, marking the official founding of The Hallé orchestra as a full-time, professional orchestra.

1862 – The first American ironclad warship, the USS Monitor is launched.

1889 – Archduke Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian crown, is found dead with his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera in the Mayerling.

1902 – The first Anglo-Japanese Alliance is signed in London.

1908 – Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is released from prison by Jan C. Smuts after being tried and sentenced to two months in jail earlier in the month.

1911 – The destroyer USS Terry makes the first airplane rescue at sea saving the life of Douglas McCurdy ten miles from Havana, Cuba.

1911 – The Canadian Naval Service becomes the Royal Canadian Navy.

1913 – The British House of Lords rejects the Irish Home Rule Bill.

1925 – The Government of Turkey throws Patriarch Constantine VI out of Istanbul.

1930 – The Politburo of the Soviet Union orders the extermination of the Kulaks.

1933 – Adolf Hitler is sworn in as Chancellor of Germany.

1933 – The "Lone Ranger" begins its 21-year run on ABC radio.

1942 – World War II: Japanese forces invade the island of Ambon in the Dutch East Indies.

1943 – World War II: Second day of the Battle of Rennell Island. The USS Chicago (CA-29) is sunk and a U.S. destroyer is heavily damaged by Japanese torpedoes.

1944 – World War II: The Battle of Cisterna, part of Operation Shingle, begins in central Italy.

1944 – World War II: American troops land on Majuro, Marshall Islands.

1945 – World War II: The Wilhelm Gustloff, overfilled with German refugees, sinks in the Baltic Sea after being torpedoed by a Soviet submarine, killing approximately 9,500 people in what is the deadliest known maritime disaster.

1948 – Mahatma Gandhi, known for his non-violent freedom struggle, is assassinated by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist.

1956 – African-American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.'s home is bombed in retaliation for the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

1957 – The Eisenhower Doctrine is accepted in congress.

1959 – MS Hans Hedtoft, said to be the safest ship afloat and "unsinkable" like the RMS Titanic, strikes an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sinks, killing all 95 aboard.

1960 – The African National Party is founded in Chad, through the merger of traditionalist parties.

1964 – Ranger program: Ranger 6 is launched.

1964 – In a bloodless coup, General Nguyễn Khánh overthrows General Dương Văn Minh's military junta in South Vietnam.

1965 – Some one million people attend former Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill's funeral, the biggest in the United Kingdom up to that point.

1968 – Vietnam War: Tet Offensive launch by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army against South Vietnam, the United States, and their allies.

1969 – The Beatles' last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records in London. The impromptu concert is broken up by the police.

1971 – Carole King's Tapestry album is released to become the longest charting album by a female solo artist and sell 24 million copies worldwide.

1972 – The Troubles: Bloody Sunday — British Paratroopers open fire on and kill fourteen unarmed civil rights/anti-internment marchers in Derry, Northern Ireland.

1972 – Pakistan withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations.

1975 – The Monitor National Marine Sanctuary is established as the first United States National Marine Sanctuary.

1979 – A Varig Boeing 707-323C freighter, flown by the same commander as Flight 820, disappears over the Pacific Ocean 30 minutes after taking off from Tokyo.

1982 – Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called "Elk Cloner".

1989 – Closure of the American embassy in Kabul, Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.

1994 – Péter Lékó becomes the youngest chess grandmaster.

1995 – Workers from the National Institutes of Health announce the success of clinical trials testing the first preventive treatment for sickle-cell disease.

2000 – Off the coast of Ivory Coast, Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 169.

2003 – The Kingdom of Belgium officially recognizes same-sex marriages.

2013 – Naro-1 becomes the first carrier rocket launched by South Korea.



Saints' Days and Holy Days

Traditional Western

Martina, Virgin and Martyr.     Double.


Contemporary Western

Aldegonde

Balthild
Charles I of England
Hippolytus of Rome
Hyacintha Mariscotti
Martina
Mutien-Marie Wiaux
Savina

Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran



Eastern Orthodox

January 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Feasts

Synaxis of the Three Holy Hierarchs:
Saint Basil the Great, Saint Gregory the Theologian, and Saint John Chrysostom.

Saints

Hieromartyr Hippolytus, priest, of Antioch, martyred in the period of the
      heretical Novatianists
Hieromartyr Hippolytus of Rome, Bishop of Rome, and those with him:
      Martyrs Censorinus, Sabinus, Ares (Aares), the virgin Chryse (Chryse
      of Rome), Felix, Maximus, Herculianus, Venerius, Styracius, Mennas,
      Commodus, Hermes, Maurus, Eusebius, Rusticus, Monagrius, Amandinus,
      Olympius, Cyprus, Theodore the Tribune, the priest Maximus, the deacon
      Archelaus, and the bishop Cyriacus, at Ostia, – under Roman Emperor
      Claudius Gothicus and a vicarius named Ulpius Romulus (269)
Venerable Zeno the Hermit, of Antioch (414), disciple of St. Basil the Great.
Martyr Theophilus the New, in Cyprus (784)
Venerable Kyriakos, ascetic of the Great Lavra of St. Sabbas the Sanctified (7th-8th c.)
Saint Peter I of Bulgaria, King of Bulgaria (969)

Pre-Schism Western Saints

Saint Martina of Rome, a martyr in Rome under Alexander Severus (228)
Saint Savina of Milan (Sabina), born in Milan, she ministered to martyrs in prison
      and buried their bodies during the persecution of Diocletian (311)
Saint Armentarius of Antibes, first Bishop of Antibes in Provence in France (ca. 451)
Martyrs Felician, Philippian and Companions, a group of 126 martyrs in North Africa
Saint Tudy (Tudclyd, Tybie), a virgin in Wales; Llandydie church in Dyfed
      is named after her (5th c.)
Saint Adelgonda, foundress of Maubeuge Abbey (680)
Saint Balthildes, Queen of France (680)
Saint Armentarius of Pavia, Bishop of Pavia (ca. 711)
Saint Amnichad (Amnuchad), a monk and then a hermit at Fulda monastery (1043)

Post-Schism Orthodox Saints

Venerable Zeno the Faster, of the Kiev Caves Monastery (14th century)
New Martyr Hadji Theodore of Mytilene (Mt. Athos) (1784)
New Martyr Demetrius of Sliven (1841)
Saint Theophil, fool-for-Christ, of Svyatogorsk Monastery (1868)
Blessed Pelagia of Diveyevo Monastery, fool-for-Christ (1884)

New Martyrs and Confessors

New Hieromartyr Vladimir Kristenovich, Priest (1933)
New Martyr Stephen Nalivayko (1945)

Other commemorations

Finding of the Wonderworking Icon of Panagia Evangelistria of Tinos (1823)
Commemoration of the deliverance of the island of Zakynthos from the plague
      by Saint George the Great-Martyr (1688)

Coptic Church

Anthony the Great



Tuesday, January 29, 2013

1967 Yearbook, part 2


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End of part 2


In the news, Tuesday, January 29, 2013


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from The Spokesman-Review

Historical library destroyed in Mali
Before fleeing French, rebels burn ancient scrolls

US eyes drone base in Africa with al-Qaida in mind

Iran says it sent monkey to space
U.S. concerned by reports of mission

Change in air as Obama lays out immigration plan today
Several policy alterations already in place

Congress passes $50.5B Sandy relief bill
Republicans unable to require offsetting cuts

Murray invites public input on budget
New chair has promised Senate will take action

Feds OK’d high pay at bailed-out firms
Treasury bypassed rules, report says

Tax dollars go to dry cleaning, art

Fast track legislation may get brakes
Emergency clauses have become popular

Scouts may pull back from no-gays policy
Board mulls local option

Higher learning requirements coming for K-12 classrooms
Common Core curriculum raises standards nationwide

Musician survives, tells of killings

Council meanders on what’s pertinent
Gun issues elicit spirited discussion

U.S. fisheries service says testing by Navy is safe for marine mammals
Report includes guidelines to minimize risk of injuries

Dutch queen stepping down
Beatrix’s eldest son will become king

Three arrested in deadly blaze
Club owner, two band members held

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In brief:  From Wire Reports

Australia flooding forces evacuations

BRISBANE, Australia – Thousands of Australians huddled in shelters today as torrential rains flooded cities and towns in the northeast, killing four people and prompting about 1,000 helicopter evacuations.

In the hard-hit city of Bundaberg, 240 miles north of Brisbane, rescue crews plucked 1,000 people to safety after the river that runs through town broke its banks, sending fast-moving, muddy water pouring into streets and homes. About 1,500 residents fled to evacuation centers, while patients at the local hospital were being airlifted to Brisbane as a precaution.

Queensland residents and officials were being particularly cautious, after floodwaters from heavy rain in late 2010 and early 2011 left much of the state under water in the worst flooding Australia had seen in decades.


Israel says Iran nuke work slowed

TEL AVIV, Israel – Israeli intelligence officials now estimate that Iran won’t be able to build a nuclear weapon before 2015 or 2016, pushing back by several years previous assessments of Iran’s nuclear ambitions.

Intelligence briefings given to McClatchy Newspapers over the past two months have confirmed that various officials across Israel’s military and political echelons now think it’s unrealistic that Iran could develop a nuclear weapons arsenal before 2015. Others pushed the date back even further, to the winter of 2016.

Reports that Iran’s nuclear facility at Fordow had been damaged in a nuclear explosion were still being investigated Monday, Israeli officials said.

Satellite imagery shared with McClatchy Newspapers showed that new fortifications had been built around the perimeter of the facility.


Canada to USA: Declare weapons

DETROIT – Canada has a message for Americans: Don’t bring guns across the border.

The Canada Border Services Agency made the plea Monday after border services officers discovered undeclared weapons five times – four incidents involving Michigan residents – since Jan. 10, CBSA spokeswoman Jean D’Amelio Swyer said.

“Don’t bring your guns into Canada,” Swyer said emphatically. “Leave your firearms at home. But if by chance they do have a firearm in the car, it is imperative that they declare it.”

Those found with weapons can face fines, jail time or both. The first time border agents find an undeclared weapon, the vehicle involved is held until payment of a fine of $1,000 per weapon, Swyer added.

But if those crossing the border tell agents they have a legal gun, the agency will either allow them to return to the United States or hold the weapon until they leave Canada, according to Swyer.


Early-warning plan for quakes sought

LOS ANGELES – A group of California’s top geophysicists and seismologists announced an $80 million plan Monday to create an earthquake early warning system in that state.

It would be the first such network in the United States and marks an ambitious new safety initiative by some of California’s top state and federal earthquake experts.

The U.S. is behind Japan – as well as Mexico, Taiwan, Turkey and even Romania – is creating early alert systems. Last year, residents in Mexico City were warned shortly before the shaking from a magnitude 7.4 quake that began near Acapulco arrived.

Democratic state Sen. Alex Padilla is proposing legislation to create the statewide network. California already has hundreds of ground sensors measuring earth movement, but experts said another $80 million is needed to expand and upgrade the monitors. They said the system could be up and running in two years if funding is found.

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Animal control gets regional home, shelter
Officials approve agreements at former motorcycle dealership

Police look for source of missile launcher

Companies to research hydrogen vehicles
They hope to have cars to market in four years

Hostess selects Little Debbie maker

Editorial: Immigration reform key for orchards, industry

Detroit, Houston comparison offers lesson
Mona Charen      Creators Syndicate columnist

Against the grain
Old dietary standby isn’t old enough for Paleo followers
Adrian Rogers      The Spokesman-Review

Yoga can be antidote to stress
Anthony L. Komaroff      Universal Uclick

Your best medicine
Smart food choices help keep sickness at bay
Barbara Quinn      McClatchy-Tribune

Workforce boomers will show tough sides
Rebecca Nappi and Catherine Johnston

Yellow mustard works wonders when treating kitchen burns
Joe Graedon M.S.      peoples pharmacy.com

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from The Washington Post (DC)
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January 29 in history


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Events


661 – The Rashidun Caliphate ends with the death of Ali.

757 – An Lushan, leader of a revolt against the Tang dynasty and emperor of Yan, is murdered by his own son, An Qingxu.

904 – Sergius III comes out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher.

1258 – First Mongol invasion of Đại Việt: Đại Việt defeats the Mongols at the battle of Đông Bộ Đầu, forcing the Mongols to withdraw from the country.

1676 – Feodor III becomes Tsar of Russia.

1785 – Citing health reasons, John Hancock resigns as Governor of Massachusetts.

1814 – War of the Sixth Coalition: France defeats Russia and Prussia in the Battle of Brienne.

1819 – Stamford Raffles lands on the island of Singapore.

1834 – US President Andrew Jackson orders first use of federal soldiers to suppress a labor dispute.

1845 – "The Raven" is published in The Evening Mirror in New York, the first publication with the name of the author, Edgar Allan Poe, making him a household name.

1850 – Henry Clay introduces the Compromise of 1850 to the U.S. Congress.

1856 – Queen Victoria issues a Warrant under the Royal sign-manual that establishes the Victoria Cross to recognise acts of valour by British military personnel during the Crimean War.

1861 – Kansas is admitted as the 34th U.S. state.

1863 – Bear River Massacre: A detachment of California Volunteers led by Colonel Patrick Edward Connor engage the Shoshone at Bear River, Washington Territory, killing hundreds of men, women, and children. The site is located near the present-day city of Preston in Franklin County, Idaho.

1886 – Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.

1891 – Liliuokalani is proclaimed the last monarch and only queen regnant of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi.

1900 – The American League is organized in Philadelphia with eight founding teams.

1907 – Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes the first Native American U.S. Senator.

1916 – World War I: Paris is first bombed by German zeppelins.

1918 – Ukrainian–Soviet War: An armed uprising organized by the Bolsheviks in anticipation of the encroaching Red Army begins at the Kiev Arsenal, which will be put down six days later.

1920 – Walt Disney begins work as an artist at KC Slide Co for a salary of $40 a week.

1936 – The first inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame are announced: Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson, Christy Mathewson, Babe Ruth, and Honus Wagner.

1940 – Three trains on the Sakurajima Line, in Osaka, Japan, collide and explode while approaching Ajikawaguchi Station. One hundred eighty-one people are killed.

1941 – Alexandros Koryzis becomes Prime Minister of Greece upon the sudden death of his predecessor, dictator Ioannis Metaxas.

1943 – The first day of the Battle of Rennell Island, U.S. cruiser Chicago is torpedoed and heavily damaged by Japanese bombers.

1944 – World War II: Approximately 38 people are killed and about a dozen injured when the Polish village of Koniuchy (present-day Kaniūkai, Lithuania) is attacked by Soviet partisan units.

1944 – In Bologna, Italy, the Anatomical theatre of the Archiginnasio is destroyed in an air-raid.

1948 – The Pakistan Socialist Party is founded in Karachi.

1963 – The first inductees into the Pro Football Hall of Fame are announced.

1967 – The "ultimate high" of the hippie era, the Mantra-Rock Dance, takes place in San Francisco and features Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead, and Allen Ginsberg.

1989 – Hungary establishes diplomatic relations with South Korea, making it the first Eastern Bloc nation to do so.

1991 – Gulf War: The Battle of Khafji, the first major ground engagement of the war, as well as its deadliest, begins.

1996 – President Jacques Chirac announces a "definitive end" to French nuclear weapons testing.

1996 – La Fenice, Venice's opera house, is destroyed by fire.

1998 – In Birmingham, Alabama, a bomb explodes at an abortion clinic, killing one and severely wounding another. Serial bomber Eric Robert Rudolph is suspected as the culprit.

2001 – Thousands of student protesters in Indonesia storm parliament and demand that President Abdurrahman Wahid resign due to alleged involvement in corruption scandals.

2002 – In his State of the Union address, President George W. Bush describes "regimes that sponsor terror" as an Axis of evil, in which he includes Iraq, Iran and North Korea.

2005 – The first direct commercial flights from mainland China (from Guangzhou) to Taiwan since

1949 arrived in Taipei. Shortly afterwards, a China Airlines flight lands in Beijing.

2006 – India's Irfan Pathan became the first bowler to take a Test cricket hat-trick in the opening over of a match.

2009 – The Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt rules that people who do not adhere to one of the three government-recognised religions, while not allowed to list any belief outside of those three, are still eligible to receive government identity documents.

2009 – Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich is removed from office following his conviction of several corruption charges, including the alleged solicitation of personal benefit in exchange for an appointment to the United States Senate as a replacement for then-U.S. president-elect Barack Obama.

2013 – SCAT Airlines Flight 760 crashes near the Kazakh city of Almaty, killing 21 people.

2013 – A gunman kills a school bus driver and holds a 6-year-old boy hostage in an underground bunker in Midland City, Alabama.

2015 – Malaysia has officially declared the disappearance of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 an accident and its passengers and crew presumed dead.



Saints' Days and Holy Days



Traditional Western

Francis de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Confessor, and Doctor of the Church.     Double.


Contemporary Western

Aquilinus of Milan
Gildas
Joseph Freinademetz
Juniper
Valerius of Trèves


Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran

Andrei Rublev (Episcopal Church (USA))


Eastern Orthodox

January 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Saints

Martyr Chryse (ca. 41-54)
Martyrs Sarbelus (Thathuil) and his sister Bebaia, of Edessa (110)
Saint Barsimaeus the Confessor, Hieromartyr Bishop of Edessa (114)
The Holy Seven Martyrs of Samosata (297):
      Martyrs Romanus, James, Philotheus, Hyperechius, Abibus, Julian,
      and Paregorius, at Samosata.
Hieromartyrs Silvanus, Bishop of Emesa, Luke the Deacon,
      and Mocius the Reader (312)
Venerable Aphrahates the Persian, Hermit of Antioch (370)
Venerable Ascepsimus, monk
Saint Ashot Kuropalates of Tao-Klarjeti, Georgia (829)

Pre-Schism Western Saints

Saint Caesarius, a deacon in Angoulême in France under its first bishop,
      St Ausonius (1st c.)
Hieromartyr Constantius of Perugia, first Bishop of Perugia, and Companions (170)
Martyr Sabinian of Troyes (275)
Martyrs Papias and Maurus, soldiers martyred in Rome under Maximian (ca. 303)
Saint Valerius, second Bishop of Trier in Germany (ca. 320)
Saint Blath (Flora), a cook at St Brigid's convent in Kildare
      where she was honoured as a holy woman (523)
Saint Gildas the Wise, Abbot, of Rhuys, Brittany (ca. 570)
Saint Severus (Sulpitius I of Bourges, Sulpicius Severus), Bishop of Bourges (591)
Saint Dallán Forgaill (of Cluain Dallain), a relative of St Aidan of Ferns,
      born in Connaught, martyred at Inis-coel by pirates (598)
Saint Aquilinus of Mediolanum (Milan), martyred by the Arians (650)
Saint Voloc, a bishop from Ireland who worked in Scotland (ca. 724)

Post-Schism Orthodox Saints

Venerable Ignatios the Sinaite, of Rethymno, Crete
Venerable Laurence, recluse of the Kiev Caves and Bishop of Turov (1194)
Saint Ignatius, Bishop of Smolensk (1210)
Saint Andrei Rublev, iconographer, of the Spaso-Andronikov Monastery
      (Moscow) (1430)
Saints Gerasimus (1441), Pitirim (1455), and Jonah (1470), Bishops of Perm
New Martyr Demetrius of Chios, at Constantinople (1802)

New Martyrs and Confessors

New Hieromartyrs John Granitov and Leontius Klimenko, Priests;
      Constantine Zverev, Deacon; and with them 5 Martyrs (1920)

Other commemorations

Translation of the relics (5th century) of Hieromartyr Ignatius the God-bearer,
      Bishop of Antioch (107)
Synaxis of All Saints of Yekaterinburg



January 28 in history


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Events


814 – Charlemagne dies of pleurisy in Aachen as the first Holy Roman Emperor. He is succeeded by his son Louis the Pious as king of the Frankish Empire.

1077 – Walk to Canossa: The excommunication of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor is lifted.

1393 – King Charles VI of France is nearly killed when several dancers' costumes catch fire during a masquerade ball.

1521 – The Diet of Worms begins, lasting until May 25.

1547 – Henry VIII dies. His nine-year-old son, Edward VI becomes King, and the first Protestant ruler of England.

1573 – Articles of the Warsaw Confederation are signed, sanctioning freedom of religion in Poland.

1624 – Sir Thomas Warner founds the first British colony in the Caribbean, on the island of Saint Kitts.

1701 – The Chinese storm Dartsedo.

1724 – The Russian Academy of Sciences is founded in St. Petersburg by Peter the Great, and implemented by Senate decree. It is called the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences until 1917.

1754 – Horace Walpole coins the word serendipity in a letter to Horace Mann.

1760 – Pownal, Vermont, is created by Benning Wentworth as one of the New Hampshire Grants.

1813 – Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is first published in the United Kingdom.

1820 – A Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev discovers the Antarctic continent, approaching the Antarctic coast.

1821 – Alexander Island is first discovered by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen.

1846 – The Battle of Aliwal, India, is won by British troops commanded by Sir Harry Smith.

1851 – Northwestern University becomes the first chartered university in Illinois.

1855 – A locomotive on the Panama Canal Railway, runs from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean for the first time.

1871 – Franco-Prussian War: the Siege of Paris ends in French defeat and an armistice.

1878 – Yale Daily News becomes the first daily college newspaper in the United States.

1887 – In a snowstorm at Fort Keogh, Montana, the world's largest snowflakes are reported, 15 inches (38 cm) wide and 8 inches (20 cm) thick.

1896 – Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent, becomes the first person to be convicted of speeding. He was fined one shilling, plus costs, for speeding at 8 mph (13 km/h), thereby exceeding the contemporary speed limit of 2 mph (3.2 km/h).

1902 – The Carnegie Institution of Washington is founded in Washington, D.C. with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.

1908 – Members of the Portuguese Republican Party fail in their attempted coup d'état against the administrative dictatorship of Prime Minister João Franco.

1909 – United States troops leave Cuba with the exception of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base after being there since the Spanish–American War.

1915 – An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard as a branch of the United States Armed Forces.

1917 – The U.S. officially ended its pursuit of bandit Pancho Villa, who had been on the run for more than eleven months.

1918 – Finnish Civil War: Rebels seize control of the capital, Helsinki, and members of the Senate of Finland go underground.

1922 – Knickerbocker Storm, Washington D.C.'s biggest snowfall, causes the city's greatest loss of life when the roof of the Knickerbocker Theatre collapses.

1932 – Japanese forces attack Shanghai.

1933 – The name Pakistan is coined by Choudhry Rahmat Ali Khan and is accepted by the Indian Muslims who then thereby adopted it further for the Pakistan Movement seeking independence.

1934 - First Ski Tow
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1934 – The first known ski tow in the U.S began operation at Gilbert's Hill in Woodstock, VT.

1935 – Iceland becomes the first Western country to legalize therapeutic abortion.

1938 – The World Land Speed Record on a public road is broken by Rudolf Caracciola in the Mercedes-Benz W195 at a speed of 432.7 kilometres per hour (268.9 mph).

1941 – Franco-Thai War: Final air battle of the conflict. A Japanese-mediated armistice goes into effect later in the day.

1945 – World War II: Supplies begin to reach the Republic of China over the newly reopened Burma Road.

1956 – Elvis Presley makes his first US television appearance.

1958 – The Lego company patents the design of its Lego bricks, still compatible with bricks produced today.

1958 – The last episode of the British radio comedy programme The Goon Show is broadcast.

1960 – The National Football League announced expansion teams for Dallas to start in the 1960 NFL season and Minneapolis-St. Paul for 1961 NFL season.

1964 – An unarmed United States Air Force T-39 Sabreliner on a training mission is shot down over Erfurt, East Germany, by a Soviet MiG-19.

1965 – The current design of the Flag of Canada is chosen by an act of Parliament.

1977 – The first day of the Great Lakes Blizzard of 1977 which dumps 10 feet (3.0 m) of snow in one-day in Upstate New York, with Buffalo, Syracuse, Watertown, and surrounding areas most affected.

1979 – CBS News Sunday Morning debuts with original host and cocreator Charles Kuralt.

1979 – Pope John Paul II starts his first pastoral visit to Mexico.

1980 – USCGC Blackthorn collides with the tanker Capricorn while leaving Tampa, Florida and capsizes, killing 23 Coast Guard crewmembers.

1981 – Ronald Reagan lifts remaining domestic petroleum price and allocation controls in the United States helping to end the 1979 energy crisis and begin the 1980s oil glut.

1982 – US Army general James L. Dozier is rescued by Italian anti-terrorism forces from captivity by the Red Brigades.

1984 – Tropical Storm Domoina makes landfall in southern Mozambique, eventually causing 214 deaths and some of the most severe flooding so far recorded in the region.

1985 – Supergroup USA for Africa (United Support of Artists for Africa) records the hit single We Are the World, to help raise funds for Ethiopian famine relief.

1986 – Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Challenger (mission STS-51-L) explodes 73 seconds after liftoff, killing all seven astronauts on board.

1988 – In R v Morgentaler the Supreme Court of Canada strikes down all anti-abortion laws, effectively allowing abortions in Canada in all 9 months of pregnancy.

2002 – TAME Flight 120, a Boeing 727-100 crashes in the Andes mountains in southern Colombia, killing 92.

2006 – The roof of one of the buildings at the Katowice International Fair in Chorzów/Katowice, Poland, collapses due to the weight of snow, killing 65 and injuring more than 170 others.

2010 – Five murderers of President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman of Bangladesh are hung.



Saints' Days and Holy Days

Traditional Western

Raymond of Penafuerte, Confessor.     Semi-Double.
Commemoration of St. Agnes for the second time.


Contemporary Western

Julian of Cuenca
Thomas Aquinas

Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran

Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Friar, Philosopher, Teacher of the Faith, 1274


Eastern Orthodox

January 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Saints

Venerable Ephraim the Syrian (373)
Venerable Palladius the Hermit of Antioch, Wonderworker (4th c.)
The Holy Two Martyrs, mother and daughter, by the sword
Martyr Charita
Saint Isaac the Syrian, Bishop of Nineveh (7th c.)
Venerable James the Ascetic, of Porphyreon (Porphyrianos) in Palestine
Saint George Ugryn the Martyr (1015), brother of Ephraim of Novotorzhok
Venerable Ephraim of Novotorzhok, Abbot and Wonderworker, founder of the
      Sts. Boris and Gleb Monastery (Novotorzhok) (1053)

Pre-Schism Western Saints

Saint Flavian, a deputy-prefect of Rome, martyred in Civita Vecchia in Italy
      under Diocletian (ca. 304)
Saint Valerius, Bishop of Saragossa in Spain, with whom St Vincent served as
      deacon (315)
Cannera (Cainder, Kinnera), Virgin on the Isle of Inniscathy, Bantry Bay, Ireland
      (ca. 530)
Saint John of Reomans (John of Reomay (Réomé)), in Gaul (544)
Saints Brigid and Maura, daughters of a Scottish Chieftain, Martyrs in Picardy
      while on pilgrimage to Rome
Saint Antimus, one of the first Abbots of Brantôme in France (8th c.)
Saint Glastian, patron saint of Kinglassie in Fife in Scotland (830)
Saint Odo of Beauvais, Bishop of Beauvais (880)

Post-Schism Orthodox Saints

Venerable Ephraim of the Kiev Caves, Bishop of Pereyaslavl (ca. 1098)
Venerable Theodosius, founder of Totma Monastery (Vologda) (1568)

New Martyrs and Confessors

Saint Theodore, presbyter, Confessor (1933)
New Hiero-confessor Arsenius (Stadnitsky), Metropolitan of Tashkent and
      Turkestan (1936)
New Hieromartyr Ignatius (Sadkovsky), Bishop of Skopin (1938)
New Hieromartyr Vladimir Pishchulin, Priest, at Simferopol (1938)
New Hieromartyr Bartholomew (Ratnykh), Hieromonk, at Feodosia (Crimea) (1938)
Virgin-martyr Olga (1938)
New Hiero-confessor Archimandrite Leontius (Stasevich) of Jablechna (Poland),
      who reposed at Mikhailovsk (Ivanovo) (Russia) (1972)

Other commemorations

"Sumorin Totma" Icon of the Mother of God (16th century)



In the news, Monday, January 28, 2013


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from The Spokesman-Review

Boy Scouts reconsidering ban on gays

World mourns Holocaust victims
Pope, other leaders call for resolve against tyranny, hatred

Israel may attack Syrian weapons

Morsi declares emergency
Troops deployed to Egyptian cities

Murray unveils online budget tool as GOP digs in

Reform could bring legal status to millions of illegal immigrants
Senators agree on overhaul proposal

Idaho may revive voter-rejected teacher contract limits

Blaze kills 233 people in Brazil nightclub
Band’s pyrotechnic device believed to have started it

Vietnam War reporter Karnow dies at 87
Book on Philippines won Pulitzer prize

Boise pastor gets 8 years in Iran prison

Idaho Capitol intrusion shocks lawmakers
Video shows man with gun inspecting desks, waste bin in Boise

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In brief:  From Wire Reports

787 probe shifts to monitor system

TOKYO – The joint U.S. and Japanese investigation into the Boeing 787’s battery problems has moved from the battery-maker to the manufacturer of a monitoring system.

Transport ministry official Shigeru Takano said today the probe into battery-maker GS Yuasa was over for now as no evidence was found it was the source of the problem.

Ministry officials said they would be inspecting Kanto Aircraft Instrument Co. as part of the ongoing investigation.

It makes a system that monitors voltage, charging and temperature of the lithium-ion batteries.

All Boeing 787s are grounded after one of the jets made an emergency landing in Japan earlier this month when its main battery overheated.


Britons warned of threat in Somalia

LONDON – British citizens should immediately leave the breakaway Somaliland region of Somalia because of a specific threat to Westerners, British diplomats said Sunday.

In a statement emailed to reporters, Britain’s Foreign Office did not go into any further detail about the nature of the threat but noted that “kidnapping for financial or political gain, motivated by criminality or terrorism” is an issue throughout Somalia.

Somalia has endured years of civil war, and Britain – along with the United States and a host of other countries – has long advised against all travel to the Horn of Africa nation.

Sunday’s travel warning applies specifically to the northwest territory of Somaliland, which declared its independence from Somalia in 1991 and has since been a haven of relative peace amid the chaos and bloodshed of the country’s south.


Inmates moved after deadly riot

CARACAS, Venezuela – Venezuelan authorities finished evacuating more than 2,000 inmates on Sunday from a prison where the government said 58 people were killed in one of the deadliest prison clashes in the nation’s history.

More than two days after the bloodshed, Penitentiary Service Minister Iris Varela released an official death toll and said 46 wounded victims remained hospitalized.

She said the evacuation of Uribana prison in the city of Barquisimeto was completed on Sunday morning. Inmates were loaded aboard buses and driven to other prisons.

Varela said that the violence erupted on Friday when groups of armed inmates began firing shots at National Guard troops who were attempting to carry out an inspection.

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Leonard Pitts Jr.: The ties that separate us

1930s: This postcard shows traffic on Sunset Hill, the
western entrance to Spokane proper. During this era,
traffic from Seattle followed what is now Highway 2.
Then and Now photos: Sunset Highway
Businessman’s ‘religion’ led to paved thoroughfare

Rock Doc: DNA may hold key to mental illness
E. Kirsten Peters





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from The Times of Israel

Israel to demand apology for ‘anti-Semitic’ Netanyahu cartoon
The Sunday Times ‘crossed a red line,’ says Ambassador to UK Daniel Taub; Knesset Speaker Rivlin lodges complaint with British counterpart

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In the news, Sunday, January 27, 2013


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from The Spokesman-Review



Fight in Mali moving toward Timbuktu
Krista Larson      The Associated Press

Forces drive Islamists from key Malian city
Robyn Dixon      Los Angeles Times

U.S. to aid French with refueling

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Verdict in soccer riot sparks deadly clashes
At least 30 dead as Egypt’s political unrest continues
Jeffrey Fleishman      Los Angeles Times
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Nightclub fire in Brazil kills 230
Juliana Barbassa, Marco Sibaja      The Associated Press

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Venezuela prison riot leaves at least 61 dead
Jorge Rueda      Associated Press

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Obama faces climate change battle
No easy answers, despite stirring inaugural speech
Erika Bolstad      McClatchy-Tribune

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Stevens County animal shelters put faith in law enforcement
Jennifer Pignolet      The Spokesman-Review

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U.S. website hacked in Swartz’s honor
Los Angeles Times

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D.C. gun ban march draws thousands
Associated Press

Seattle gun buyback draws crowd
Missile launcher among weapons
Associated Press

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Spin Control: Lobbying season kicks off in Olympia
Jim Camden      The Spokesman-Review

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Officials consider coroner inquests
Tweak would change state law on autopsies
Thomas Clouse      The Spokesman-Review

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Eye on Boise: Scholarship programs need revamp
Betsy Z. Russell      The Spokesman-Review

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In brief:  From Wire Reports

Lesbian spouse joining Army club

Durham, N.C. – Ending a controversy that highlighted the unequal treatment of gay spouses in the military, an officers’ spouse club at Fort Bragg, N.C., has offered full membership to the lesbian spouse of a U.S. Army officer.

Ashley Broadway, who is married to Lt. Col. Heather Mack, said she would accept the offer to join the Association of Bragg Officers’ Spouses. Broadway said she was “overjoyed” that the group had added sexual orientation to the nondiscrimination clause in its bylaws.

The spouse group rejected Broadway’s membership application last year, citing her lack of a military ID card.

Broadway has said she was rejected because she’s a lesbian. Earlier this month, she rejected an offer of “guest membership” in the spouse group. The group said she would need an ID card for full membership.


Iowa’s Harkin won’t run again

WASHINGTON – Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin, a liberal Democrat and a champion for Americans with disabilities, announced Saturday that he will not run for re-election next year, saying that 40 years in Congress is enough.

Harkin’s retirement gives Republicans a chance to pick up a Senate seat during next year’s midterm election. They need to gain six seats to take control of the Senate. But Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado, who chairs the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, said Harkin’s early announcement gave the party ample time to recruit a strong candidate.

Harkin, 73, made the announcement in his hometown of Cumming, Iowa. He was first elected to the House of Representatives in 1974 and in 1984 won election to the Senate, where he has served since.

“After 40 years, I just feel it’s somebody else’s turn,” Harkin said.


Chavez starting more treatment

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has defeated a respiratory infection and has begun additional medical treatment in Cuba after struggling with complications following cancer surgery more than six weeks ago, a government spokesman said Saturday.

Venezuelan Information Minister Ernesto Villegas said it remains unclear how soon Chavez could return home and did not specify the kind of treatment he is receiving.

“Vice President (Nicolas) Maduro estimates that the time it could take President Chavez to return is within weeks,” Villegas said.

He read a statement that went beyond past government reports in providing additional information about Chavez’s Dec. 11 surgery but didn’t describe the newest treatment. While refusing to release many details about the president’s cancer, authorities in the past have reported on specific treatments, including radiation and chemotherapy.

“Forty-five days after carrying out a complex surgical intervention for the removal of a malignant lesion in the pelvis, with severe, acute complications, the patient’s general evolution is favorable,” Villegas said, reading the statement.


Garment factory fire kills at least seven

Dhaka, Bangladesh – A fire swept through a two-story garment factory in Bangladesh’s capital, killing at least seven female workers and injuring five others, police and fire officials said.

The fire Saturday at the Smart factory occurred just two months after a blaze killed 112 workers in another factory near the capital, raising questions about safety standards and treatment of workers in Bangladesh’s $20 billion garment industry that exports clothes to leading Western retailers. The country has more than 4,000 garment factories.

The cause of the latest fire was not immediately known, fire official Abdul Halim said.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police Deputy Commissioner Monzurul Kabir said the bodies of seven women were recovered from the top floor of the factory in Dhaka’s Mohammadpur district. He said the factory was making pants and shirts, but could not provide further details.

Halim said it took firefighters about two hours to bring the blaze under control.


Kim orders ‘high-profile measures’

Seoul, South Korea – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un convened top security and foreign affairs officials and ordered them to take “substantial and high-profile important state measures,” state media said today, indicating that he plans to push forward with a threat to explode a nuclear device in defiance of the United Nations.

The meeting of top officials led by Kim makes clear that he backs Pyongyang’s defiant stance in protest of U.N. Security Council punishment for a December rocket launch. The dispatch in the official Korean Central News Agency did not say when the meeting took place.

Last week, the Security Council condemned North Korea’s Dec. 12 launch of a long-range rocket as a violation of a ban against nuclear and missile activity. The council, including North Korea ally China, punished Pyongyang with more sanctions and ordered the regime to refrain from a nuclear test – or face “significant action.”

North Korea responded by rejecting the resolution and maintaining its right to launch a satellite into orbit as part of a peaceful civilian space program.

It also warned that it would keep developing rockets and testing nuclear devices to counter what it sees as U.S. hostility. A rare statement was issued Thursday by the powerful National Defense Commission, the top governing body led by Kim.


Iran warns against attacks on Syria

Beirut – Any foreign attack on Syria would be considered an attack on Iran, a senior Iranian official warned Saturday as the first Patriot missile batteries were declared operational along Turkey’s tense border with Syria.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s decision to deploy six Patriot missile batteries in Turkish borderlands has rankled the Syrian government and its chief allies, Iran and Russia.

Tehran and Moscow view the move as a provocation that could escalate hostilities and widen the almost 2-year-old Syrian conflict. About 400 troops from the United States, Germany and the Netherlands are expected to accompany the Patriot batteries.

The comments Saturday by Ali Akbar Velayati, a top aide to Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, are among Tehran’s strongest public declarations to date of support for Syrian President Bashar Assad, Iran’s major ally in the Arab world.

Velayati noted Syria’s crucial role in the “golden resistance chain” against Israel and the United States. The Iran-led “resistance” front includes Syria, Lebanon-based Hezbollah and the Palestinian group Hamas.


State, UI, Kalispels will team for study of Priest Lake trout

SANDPOINT – A study is planned in North Idaho to estimate the number of lake trout in Priest Lake along with what they eat and their survival rates.

The Idaho Department of Fish and Game will conduct the study with the University of Idaho’s College of Natural Resources and the Kalispel Tribe, the Bonner County Daily Bee reported. Information gleaned will be used to develop a sport fishery plan for the popular lake.

From March to May, deep-water trap nets and short-duration gill nets will be used to capture lake trout and mark them with individually numbered tags.

Opinions of anglers about how the lake should be managed vary from sticking with lake trout to restoring cutthroats, bull trout and kokanee.

Fish and Game officials plan to schedule a hearing in late February to discuss the project and answer questions from anglers.


Three pictograph images fall from cave wall at state park

BILLINGS – Three images at Pictograph Cave State Park near Billings broke off and fell to the ground.

One of the images was a turtle that was more than 2,000 years old and represented one of the earliest known painted images on the Northern Plains, said Jennifer Lawson, of Montana State Parks.

An abstract image in charcoal and two pieces of a light red ochre image also broke off.

Park officials said the turtle remained almost intact on a single slab of rock and will become part of a display in the visitors center, the Billings Gazette reported.

Officials say the rock fall happened sometime between closing time at 5 p.m. Jan. 18 and 9 a.m. Jan. 19 when a ranger arrived.

The cave has 33 pictographs remaining.

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opinion:

Editorial: Commission must be able to speak up for Fairchild

Women just aren’t built for combat
Kathleen Parker      Washington Post Writers Group columnist

Bills would rein in wolves
Sen. John Smith      R, Colville

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sports

Franchise used to living on the brink
Kings have relocated four times


Prep Girls Basketball

Northeast 2B

Northwest Christian 57, Davenport 23: Courtney Gray made 10 of 11 field goals and 4 of 5 from the free-throw line and scored 24 points in the Crusaders’ rout of the host Gorillas (5-15, 3-11). Northwest Christian (15-4, 10-4) outscored Davenport 24-4 in the second quarter and led 40-11 at halftime.

Colfax 57, Springdale 30: Amelie Bruya made four 3-pointers and scored 18 points and Taylor Larsen added 14 points and eight rebounds as the Bulldogs (17-3, 12-2) routed the visiting Chargers (10-10, 6-8). Colfax led 24-7 after the first quarter. Springdale was led by Emily Sulgrove and Brittney Beckman, who scored eight points apiece.

St. George’s 52, Lind-Ritzville/Sprague 34: Alex Wert scored 18 points and collected nine rebounds and Taryn Stamper hit four 3-pointers and finished with 14 points as the Dragons (9-11, 7-7) beat the visiting Broncos (7-13, 4-10). St. George’s outscored Lind-Ritzville/Sprague 15-3 in the third quarter to put the game out of reach. The Broncos were led by Jenna Bennett’s 11 points.

Northeast 1B North

Cusick 60, Curlew 34: Caytlin Nenema tallied a game-high 20 points as the Panthers (18-1, 10-1) used their size to their advantage in a win over the host Cougars (5-12, 3-9). Cusick outscored Curlew 20-7 in the third quarter to put the game away. Lindsey Gibson led Curlew with 14 points.

Columbia 61, Inchelium 25: Elizabeth Larrew had 28 points, nine rebounds, seven steals and five assists to guide the Lions (12-7, 9-3) to a rout over the Hornets (6-8, 4-7) in Hunters. Columbia, which forced 30 turnovers, led 25-10 at halftime. Inchelium’s Javahni Andrews scored 18 points.

Republic 42, Selkirk 28: Demi Jo Vaughn had 13 points, nine rebounds and five steals as the Tigers (14-4, 9-2) overcame a slow start and beat the host Rangers (7-11, 4-7). Brianna Brown added 12 points, seven rebounds and five steals for Republic, which took control after scoring just one point in the first quarter. Katie Couch had 12 points and 20 rebounds for Selkirk.

Northeast 1B South

Wellpinit 52, St. Michael’s 48: The Redskins (10-9, 6-3) built a big first-half lead and held on late to beat the visiting Warriors (3-15, 1-7). Kyra Antone scored 15 points and Kaylee Kieffer added eight points and seven steals for Wellpinit, which led 30-17 at halftime. Macaela Shelley scored 14 points and Jolene House added 11 for St. Michael’s, which stormed back after halftime but couldn’t complete the comeback.

Almira/Coulee-Hartline 74, Valley Christian 28: Karlee Martin scored 24 points and dished out 10 assists as the Warriors (13-5, 8-0) overwhelmed the visiting Panthers (1-16, 1-8). Lindy Riggan tallied a team-high 20 points for Valley Christian.

Wilbur-Creston 42, Odessa-Harrington 23: The Wildcats (15-4, 7-2) ended the game on a 26-3 run and beat the visiting Titans (5-14, 3-6). Alexandra Potts tallied a team-high nine points for Wilbur-Creston, which outscored Odessa-Harrington 30-10 in the second half.

Southeast 1B

Tekoa-Oakesdale 60, St. John-Endicott 40: Mattie Jo Johnson and Alexandria Overton scored 17 points apiece as the Nighthawks (14-3, 10-3) cranked up the defensive intensity in the second half and beat the visiting Eagles (13-4, 10-3). St. John-Endicott led by eight points at the half, but struggled with Tekoa-Oakesdale’s aggressive man-to-man defense in the second half, making just 3 of 19 shots after halftime.

Colton 84, Touchet 22: Jenna Moser led four players in double figures with 16 points and the Wildcats (16-1, 13-0) dumped the visiting Indians.

Garfield-Palouse 34, Rosalia 33: Alexis Rodriguez and Taylor Redman combined for 30 points to lead the Vikings (5-13, 5-9) to a win over the visiting Spartans (10-7, 7-6). Rosalia was led by Mackenzie Reddish, who scored 13 points.


Prep Boys Basketball

Northeast 2B

St. George’s 59,  Lind-Ritzville/Sprague 41:  Will Tender scored 19 of his game-high 25 points in the first half as host St. George’s completed a perfect basketball season in the Northeast 2B League with a 59-41 win over Lind-Ritzville/Sprague Saturday.  The Broncos’ loss, coupled with Colfax’s win over Springdale, put LRS in third place and Colfax in second.  Dexter Sienko scored 12 points and Erik Muelheims added seven points, 10 assists and nine rebounds for St. George’s (19-1, 14-0), which outscored the Broncos 17-9 in the first quarter and led by 15 at halftime.  Connor O’Neill and Dylan Hartz scored 10 points apiece for LRS (15-5, 9-5).

Colfax 68, Springdale 39: Brady Ellis made six 3-pointers and finished with 23 points as the Bulldogs (15-5, 10-4) dominated from the get-go and cruised past the visiting Chargers (0-20, 0-14).  Brandon Gfeller added 15 points and 12 rebounds for Colfax, which built a 38-7 halftime lead. Springdale was led by Chase Fitzgerald’s nine points and seven rebounds.

Davenport 60, Northwest Christian 51: Connor Van Pevenage led four players in double figures with 15 points and the Gorillas (10-10, 5-9) upset the visiting Crusaders (13-7, 8-6). Josh Likkel added 13 points, nine rebounds and three assists for Davenport. Northwest Christian, which finished fourth in league, was led by Nick Kiourkas’ game-high 18 points.

Northeast 1B North

Cusick 76, Curlew 40: Alec Bluff made 11 of 19 shots and finished with 25 points and Ryan Sample added 17 points on 8-of-11 shooting as the Panthers (16-2, 11-0) routed the host Cougars (6-10, 4-7). Cusick forced 22 turnovers, which led to many easy points. The Panthers outscored Curlew 26-2 in the third quarter to take a 72-28 lead into the fourth. The Cougars were led by Dalton Drennan’s 11 points.

Inchelium 56, Columbia 47: Quentin Holford led three players in double figures with 20 points and the Hornets (4-10, 4-8) beat the Lions (0-18, 0-12) in Hunters. Thomas Cohen had 12 points and Edward Stensgar chipped in 11 for Inchelium. Dustin Wyborney scored 20 points and grabbed 15 rebounds for Columbia.

Selkirk 46, Republic 34: Avery Miller scored 16 points and grabbed 16 rebounds – including seven offensive rebounds in the second half – as the Rangers (13-4, 10-1) pulled away late and beat the visiting Tigers (10-8, 6-5). Dominic Cain added 12 points, five rebounds and five assists for Selkirk, which outscored Republic 17-9 in the fourth quarter.

Northeast 1B South

Wellpinit 72, St. Michael’s 29: A.J. Kieffer had 15 points and 15 rebounds as the Redskins (14-5, 7-2) opened the game on a 23-0 run and eased past the visiting Warriors (1-17, 0-8). Brodie Ford added 15 points and James Best had 10 points and 10 rebounds for Wellpinit.

Valley Christian 53, Almira/Coulee-Hartline 45: Bo Piersol tallied a game-high 20 points and Grant Marchant added 12 as the Panthers (10-8, 5-4) beat the host Warriors (9-7, 5-3). Freshman Dallas Isaak scored 15 points to lead Almira/Coulee-Hartline.

Odessa-Harrington 61, Wilbur-Creston 56: Stetson Sanford scored 15 points and Justin Hunt and Cade Weber added 11 points apiece as the Titans (12-7, 6-3) edged the host Wildcats (9-10, 3-6). Sanford and Hunt combined for 15 of Odessa-Harrington’s 22 fourth-quarter points. Wilbur-Creston’s Dorian Jaeger and Garet Townsend both notched career-bests with 15 points apiece.

Southeast 1B

Tekoa-Oakesdale 68, St. John-Endicott 67: Max Mueller erupted for 38 points and 28 rebounds and the Nighthawks (2-15, 1-12) edged the visiting Eagles (2-16, 2-12). Ten of Mueller’s rebounds came on the offensive end. Marcus Pluff added 13 points and six assists and Jesse Johnson chipped in nine points and 11 boards for Tekoa-Oakesdale. Zach Hollingsworth scored 26 points and Kaleb Simon added 19 for St. John-Endicott.

LaCrosse-Washtucna/Kahlotus 50, Pomeroy 38: Joey Guske and Darcy Stamper combined for 27 points as the Tigercats (14-4, 10-4) built a 15-point first-half advantage and cruised past the visiting Pirates (12-5, 9-4). Riley Bott tallied 16 points for Pomeroy.

Colton 55, Touchet 47: Jake Straughan scored 21 points and Dalton Patchen added 18 points as the Wildcats (12-6, 10-3) beat the visiting Indians (4-9, 4-9).

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Park offers glimpse of geologic history
Craig Troianello      Yakima Herald-Republic

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More stores hold wine tasting
Andrea Brown      (Everett) Herald

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Technology, volunteers boost northeastern Washington whitetail study
Rich Landers      The Spokesman-Review

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Partovi stays true to her mission as public library director
Michael Guilfoil      Correspondent

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