Friday, August 30, 2013

In the news, Friday, August 30, 2013


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THU 29      INDEX      SAT 31
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from ACLJ

SECRETARY OF STATE KERRY URGES IRAN TO ALLOW AMERICAN PASTOR SAEED ABEDINI TO “RETURN” HOME TO HIS FAMILY

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from AMAC

Ford Fuels Profits With Innovation, Not Government Bailouts

Obamascare: Scams Related To Health Care Expected to Rise

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from AsiaNews.it

Crackdown in Kuala Lumpur: 65 thousand Nepalese migrants risk expulsion

Syria, the Pope, China: A Conversation with Orthodox Metropolitan Hilarion

To defend himself against rape charges, Hindu guru attacks those who support religious conversions

UN:' considerable ' evidence of use of chemical weapons. The U.S. increasingly alone

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from Breitbart

REPORT: BASHAR ASSAD'S 11-YEAR-OLD SON TAUNTS OBAMA
A dictator's spawn gets into the act

CHRISTIAN SENTENCED TO DEATH BY HANGING FOR DRINKING WATER RESERVED FOR MUSLIMS
Aasiya Noreen "Asia" Bibi has been sentenced to death by hanging in Pakistan for drinking water "from a well belonging to Muslim women, [and] using 'their' cup in the burning heat of the midday sun."

OBAMA USES EXECUTIVE ACTIONS TO BYPASS CONGRESS ON GUN CONTROL AGAIN

OBAMA DISARMS AMERICANS WHILE ARMING THE WORLD

Constitutional convention chaos

WASHINGTON POST UNDERSTANDS IMMIGRATION REFORM IS IN TROUBLE

STARBUCKS BARISTA ON FOOD STAMPS FIRED AFTER EATING SANDWICH OUT OF TRASH

CRUZ: SYRIA, OBAMACARE LINKED BY 'ARROGANCE' OF 'OUT OF CONTROL PRESIDENT'

MSNBC HOST REFUSES TO ACKNOWLEDGE ALGER HISS COMMUNIST TIES

ENZI, VITTER BILL PUTS CONGRESS INTO OBAMACARE EXCHANGES

MICHAEL MOORE MOCKS PEACE PRIZE PREZ OBAMA FOR SYRIA SABER RATTLING

MCAULIFFE'S GREENTECH MONGOLIA CAR PLANT SUPPORTED BY FUNDING FROM CHINESE GOVT

NBC NEWS: SNOWDEN MASQUERADED AS NSA EXEC TO GAIN DOCUMENT ACCESS
Why is no one discussing the contingent liability of Booz , Allen...because of crony capitalism

ALLEN WEST ILLUMINATES THE TRUE UNFULFILLED PARTS OF MLK'S DREAM

DHS Knew About Racist Employee's Activities Since 2010

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from CNSNews.com

Maj. Nidal Hasan Sentenced to Death for Fort Hood Shooting

9-Year Old ‘Top Reader’ Told By Library to Step Aside And Let Other Kids Win

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from Daily Mail

John Kerry says U.S. has ‘high confidence’ chemical weapons killed 1,429 in Syria and warns against the ‘great consequences’ of failing to act against ‘murderous thug’


Inside El Salvador's secretive prison pits where notorious gangs are crammed together like livestock in cells the size of a shed
New report reveals the shocking conditions that members of El Salvador's violent and bloody MS-13 and M18 gangs are forced to live in
Huddled in holding cells designed for 72-hour stays - some men have been exposed to unsanitary and diseased conditions for over a year
An uneasy truce has existed since March 2012 between the two gangs

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from Facecrooks

Facebook Proposes Updates to Key Policy Documents Governing User Data

Your Recent Profile Viewer’s – Facebook Scam
[Scam Alert] Another Profile Viewer scam is spreading virally on Facebook. Always remember that you can't see who has viewed your profile. Facebook doesn't offer this feature and they don't give developers access to the data required to create such apps. Anything like this will be a scam every, single time!


from Fox News

George W. Bush: 'President Obama Has a Tough Choice to Make'
The former president weighed in on Syria at a charity golf outing to support our troops and their families.George W. Bush: "The president's got a tough choice to make and if he decides to use our military, he'll have the greatest military ever backing him up."

Should Someone Be Punished for Texting a Driver?
A New Jersey court has ruled that the sender of the text messages can also be held legally liable for an accident

Murder or Mercy? KY Man Claims He Shot Wife to End Her Suffering

British lawmakers reject military action in Syria, in setback for Obama administration

Pastor Saeed, other Christians caught in the crosshairs, yet nary a word from Obama

Follow Dana Perino's Mercy Ships Mission
She's been on board the Africa Mercy, the world's largest charity hospital ship, helping people who don't have access to health care.

IRS extends tax benefits to married gay couples
On the heels of the Supreme Court's Defense of Marriage Act decision, the Treasury Department and IRS announce legally married gay couples will be recognized for federal tax purposes.

‘She Was as Much in Control as He Was’: Judge Under Fire for Comments About 14-Year-Old Rape Victim

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from Freedom Foundation

How radical is a $15 minimum wage? Pretty Radical
Fast food workers nationwide are striking today for a higher minimum wage, as high as $15/hr here in Seattle.

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from The Guardian

UK took three weeks to act over data at New York Times, says Guardian
Alan Rusbridger hits back at Downing Street's claims in high court that it 'urgently' needed access to leaked GCHQ files
UPDATE: Metropolitan police granted wider powers to investigate data seized at Heathrow airport from Glenn Greenwald's partner, David Miranda.
The high court decision lets police investigate whether crimes of terrorism or breaches of Official Secrets Act have been committed
Nobel prize-winning Northern Irish poet died this morning in a Dublin hospital after a short illness

Seamus Heaney – a life in pictures
The death of the Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney at the age of 74 marks the end of a career which began with his collection Death of a Naturalist in 1966. Here we celebrate his life with a selection of images from an old school photograph to recent appearance at the Edinburgh international book festival

Poverty saps mental capacity to deal with complex tasks, say scientists
Study suggests being preoccupied with money problems is equivalent to loss of 13 IQ points or losing a night's sleep

Syria: it takes more courage to say there is nothing outsiders can do
The human misery in Syria is agonising to watch. But intervention-lite is a bad idea for all but the politicians' egos 'The human misery in Syria is agonising to watch. It takes more courage to say there is nothing outsiders can do"

Cameron forced to rule out British attack on Syria after MPs reject motion
PM says 'I get that and government will act accordingly' after motion on taking action against Assad lost by 13 votes

UN weapons inspectors to leave Syria a day early
Ban Ki-moon's announcement that United Nations experts will depart on Saturday fuels speculation of armed intervention

Syria crisis: US isolated as British MPs vote against air strikes – as it happened
Trouble for White House after UK parliamentary revolt
Doubts circulate about case tying Assad to chemical weapons
Assad moves Scud missiles, evacuates troops

Leeds man sets up personal 0871 telephone number and makes 10p a minute from businesses and cold callers

Pennsylvania governor: gay couples barred from marriage 'like 12-year-olds'
Attorneys for Republican governor file lawsuit saying marriage licences issued to same-sex couples in the state are invalid

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from iFIBER ONE News

Caution urged for people going outside to avoid West Nile Virus

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from The Jerusalem Post

Exclusive: Key witness in Bank of China terror financing case 'inclined to testify'
Should Israel put fight against terror financing above relations with China?

France says it could take military action in Syria without Britain
France says it will act to punish Assad for chemical weapons use with or without the UK.

IDF takes measures against possible Syrian reaction to US strike, despite assessments Assad unlikely to retaliate against Israel.

US military expert says Syria is capable of attacking Israel, as it has hundreds of scud missiles and others from Iran, such as the Fateh-110 surface-to-surface missile that has at least a 200-km range.

Hagel: US will continue to seek coalition on Syria
"When the president reaches a determination about the appropriate response ... and a legal justification is required to substantiate or to back up that decision, we'll produce one on our own," White House spokesman said.


US officials to 'Post': UN path 'dead on arrival' as Russia convenes Security Council on Syria
Is US ready to strike Syria without Russia's consent?

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from KIRO 7 Eywitness News

Powers limited, Obama, Biden seek action on guns
President Obama is using executive actions to expand who must undergo background checks before buying a gun.

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from KREM 2 News

Fight over stolen shoes leads to Hillyard gunshots
Neighbors say a gun was fired after a fight over STOLEN SHOES broke out at a Hillyard mobile home park.

Man tells 911 he killed cancer-stricken wife
A Kentucky man called 911 just minutes after he shot his wife twice to end her pain from terminal breast cancer.

US readies possible solo action against Syria
President Barack Obama faced resistance Thurs. to plans for a possible military strike against Syria, with lawmakers in both the U.S. & Britain demanding more proof that Bashar Assad's government perpetrated a deadly chemical weapons attack against civilians. Even so, military action could come within days.

Feds won't sue to stop marijuana use in Washington state

Washington has 4th-highest sales tax rate in country

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from KXLY 4 News

Shots fired at residence in 4900 block of North Florida
Police responded to a gunshot that was fired at 4900 North Florida. It appears a man was being evicted from the mobile home park there and fired a shot in some kind of altercation.

Inmates at Airway Heights learning skills to enter the aerospace industry
The Airway Heights Corrections Center already has vocational programs that teach inmates skills like upholstery, but now it's the first prison in the state to get workers ready for Washington's growing aerospace industry.

Fast food workers in Seattle protesting wages
Seattle is one of more than 50 cities across the nation who are currently protesting fast food wages. Fast food employees are asking for $15 an hour, more than double the federal minimum wage.

Hundreds pay final tribute to Shorty
The song "We'll Meet Again" was specially picked for Delbert 'Shorty' Belton to be sung at his service today. It was a song he might've danced to before leaving for the war in the Pacific and when he returned home; it was also a song that once again sent him on his way today when all his friends wanted was to see him come back.

Should Wash. public schools send 'fat letters' to parents?
Shared from KATU.

No federal challenge to pot legalization

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from Money Talks News

10 Ways to Say No to Your Kids, and Why You Shouldn’t Feel Bad When You Do

Watch Out for These Obamacare Scams
Look out for scammers looking to capitalize on people confused on Obamacare. Beware!

Starbucks Won’t Cut Workers’ Hours to Dodge Obamacare
A few businesses have formally announced cutting back on full-time workers due to Obamacare. One company who isn't? Starbucks.

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from NPR

Dumplings Taste Better When Filled With Memories
Just about every culture has dumplings, and for the Polish, it's pierogi. This little dumpling plays a big role in preserving and celebrating heritage for many Polish-Americans.

Money May Be Motivating Doctors To Do More C-Sections
Many obstetricians make more money for C-sections than for non-surgical deliveries. In a recent study, these doctors were more likely to perform the costly procedure than doctors paid a flat salary. But when the pregnant women were also physicians, doctors seemed less swayed by financial incentives.

Wise Old Whooping Cranes Keep Captive-Bred Fledglings On Track
A team of ecologists have discovered something that suggests success: Captive-bred whooping cranes are picking up tips from older birds to skillfully navigate south for the winter.  It's a sign that those whoopers are passing knowledge from one generation to the next and, in a sense, rebuilding their culture.

Antibiotic Use On The Farm: Are We Flying Blind?
No one knows exactly how farmers use antibiotics. Many public health experts say the government should collect and publish detailed information because antibiotic-resistant bacteria are an increasingly urgent problem. However, many farm groups are opposed.

Another 'Grand Canyon' Discovered Beneath Greenland's Ice
Greenland is covered in an ice layer that's up to 2 miles thick. But below the ice, there's a vast terrain of bedrock.  Now scientists have found a mega-canyon there, twice the size of the Grand Canyon in Arizona.

Irish Poet Seamus Heaney Dies
Called by some the best Irish poet since Yeats, Heaney was 74. He was awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Heaney once told NPR that poems are "stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself. ... You have to conjure the next stepping stone because the stream, we hope, keeps flowing."

A Single Protein May Help Explain Memory Loss In Old Age
Age-related fumbles of memory are often feared as early signs of Alzheimer's dementia, but recent research confirms an important difference between the two: Scientists found that age-related memory loss may be reversible.

How Money Worries Can Scramble Your Thinking
People are much worse at solving puzzles when they're first reminded of money problems, scientists say. Research shows that fretting about finances can slow down your thinking as much as losing a night's sleep.

To Attract Millennials, Automakers Look To Smartphones
Millennials drive less than previous generations, forcing automakers to develop new, marketable features. Many ideas come from looking outside their industry — from cellphones and apps to computers and video games.
Spices may add more than flavor to your food. Some harbor dangerous bacteria and contamination has caused big outbreaks in the United States.

How California Is Turning The Rest Of The West Blue
California used to attract millions of newcomers, but now more people are moving away. And they're taking a more progressive strain of politics with them to places like Colorado and Nevada.

That Butterfly Won't Bite You
Commentator and anthropologist Barbara J. King finds that children's fears of butterflies can be attributed to having little experience of nature.

A Cooler Pacific May Be Behind Recent Pause In Global Warming
The Earth's average temperature has risen by more than 1 degree Fahrenheit since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. But the temperature rise has not been moving in lock step with the rise of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Scientists believe this global "pause" has to do with conditions in the Pacific Ocean.

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from POLITICO

PHOTOS: How well do you know the news? 8/30

Cory Booker: ‘My sexuality not an issue’
“The question really should not be whether I’m gay or straight, the question should be why the heck are you asking the question in the first place? It doesn’t make a whit of difference at what kind of senator I’m going to be or not.”

Rush Limbaugh: Fast-food labor strike should target President Obama

Wendy Davis raised $1.2M after filibuster

Syria strike could bring Raytheon payday
Reports that the White House is planning an attack to punish Damascus for the use of chemical weapons sent Raytheon’s stock price to a 52-week high this week — and have reawakened grumblings in Congress that the military doesn’t buy enough Tomahawks.

PHOTOS: Governors' offices up for grabs in 2014
Thirty-six states will hold gubernatorial elections in 2014. A majority of governors are expected to seek reelection, but at least six states are sure to see someone new behind the executive’s desk as incumbents retire or are termed out.

The lonely president
President Barack Obama had hoped for a quick, convincing strike on Syria, but growing opposition and Great Britain’s stunning rejection of the attack has thrust him into the uncomfortable position of go-it-alone hawk.

White House: U.S. could act alone after U.K. rejects action
President Obama’s latest geopolitical problem: His closest ally won’t help him attack Syria.

DOJ won’t sue to block state pot legalization laws

Married same-sex couples get federal tax recognition
The new tax rule will apply even if a gay couple lives in a state that does not recognize same-sex marriage, so long as they were married in a state that does.

The ironic war plan
Imagine Dick Cheney in a “Saturday Night Live” skit fantasizing about Barack Obama handling the pressures of going to war.

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from Space.com

First 'Trojan' Asteroid Companion of Uranus Found
Astronomers have found the first-ever 'Trojan' asteroid companion of Uranus, hinting at many more space rock companions for planets in the outer solar system.  Scientists had thought the Trojan points of Uranus, the seventh planet from the sun, were too unstable to host asteroids. Now astronomers using the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope have discovered the first Trojan for Uranus.

Milky Way's Giant Black Hole Spits Out Its Food
The colossal black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy is a messy eater, as 99 percent of all the gas that falls toward the black hole gets spewed back out into space, new observations show.

Curiosity Rover Snaps Best Mars Solar Eclipse Photos Ever
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has captured the sharpest-ever images of a solar eclipse as seen from the Red Planet. This set of three images taken three seconds apart by NASA's Curiosity rover shows the larger of Mars' two moons, Phobos, passing in front of the sun on Aug. 17, 2013.

Spy Satellite Data Reveal Antarctic Ice Vulnerability
Declassified spy satellite imagery of Antarctica dating back to the 1960s has revealed that the world's largest ice sheet may be more susceptible to climate change than once thought.

China's First Moon Rover Will Launch By End of the Year
China will launch its first moon rover by the end of this year in what will be the most ambitious lunar mission yet, according to state media reports released Wednesday (Aug. 28).

NASA Satellites Track California's Rim Wildfire from Space

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from The Spokesman-Review

Leisurely rail tours offer elevated outlook
The North Pend Oreille Valley Lions Club runs a train between Ione and Metaline Falls six weekends a year as a fundraiser, allowing passengers views they wouldn’t get from the highway – most notably of Box Canyon Dam from a 130-high trestle completed in 1910.

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from The Star

Why the Switch to Digital Projectors Means the End of the Small-Town Movie Theater
Village Cinema's plight leads this national look at what digital convergence is doing to small towns
(shared from The Atlantic Cities).

Respect the blood, sweat and tears of freedom
After hearing the disturbing news from Spokane of WWII Vet Delbert Belton (Shorty), being beaten to death by two cowardly young men . . . it got me thinking of the lack of respect we give our veterans, or should I say heros.

Wind, lightning storm hits area hard
It was storm story time in the coulee area Sunday night as the region was hit by a severe wind, thunder and lightning storm.  Power was out for some, trees were down, traffic in some areas was stalled or rerouted, and tree limbs and debris were everywhere

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from The Telegraph (UK)

Dubai offers gold in return for weight loss
In an attempt to encourage healthier living, Dubai has launched a scheme in which they offer gold in return for weight loss.

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from The Wall Street Journal

Scientists Shed New Light on Black Holes
Astronomers say they may have solved a cosmic mystery: why gravitational monsters known as black holes are inept at swallowing their prey

Deal in Concussion Suit Gives NFL a Big Victory
The NFL and 4,500 former players suing the league over concussion-related issues have reached a $765 million settlement. The settlement will fund medical exams, concussion-related compensation and medical research.

Thursday, August 29, 2013

August 29 in history


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AUG 28      INDEX      AUG 30


Events


708 – Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 708).

1178 Anti-Pope Callistus III gives pope title to Alexander III

1261 – Pope Urban IV (Jacques Pantaleon) succeeds Pope Alexander IV as the 182nd pope.

1315 – Battle of Montecatini: The army of the Republic of Pisa, commanded by Uguccione della Faggiuola, wins a decisive victory against the joint forces of the Kingdom of Naples and the Republic of Florence despite being outnumbered.

1350 – Battle of Winchelsea (or Les Espagnols sur Mer): The English naval fleet under King Edward III defeats a Castilian fleet of 40 ships.

1475 – The Treaty of Picquigny ends a brief war between the kingdoms of France and England. King Louis XI buys English contacts

1484 – Giovanni Battista Cibo elected as Pope Innocent VIII; succeeds Pope Sixtus IV.

1498 – Vasco da Gama decides to depart Calicut and return to Kingdom of Portugal.

1521 – The Ottoman Turks capture Nándorfehérvár (Belgrade).

1526 – Battle of Mohács: In a decisive battle the Hungarian Empire is conquered by the Ottoman Empire led by Suleiman the Magnificent. The last Jagiellonian king of Hungary and Bohemia is defeated and killed.

1533 – Spaniard Francisco Pizarro executes Atahualpa, the last Sapa Inca (sovereign emperor) of the Inca Empire, who is suspected to have been buried in Northern Peru or in Ecuador.

1540 Emperor Karel deprives city Gent of its definitive rights and privileges,

1541 – The Ottoman Turks capture Buda, the capital of the Hungarian Kingdom.

1612 Battle of Surat, India: English fleet beats Portuguese,

1640 English King Charles I signs a peace treaty with Scotland,

1655 Warsaw falls without resistance to a small force under the command of Charles X Gustav of Sweden during The Deluge.

1664 Adriaen Pieck and Gerrit de Ferry patent wooden firespout in Amsterdam,

1696 King Louis XIV of France and Victor Amadeus II, Duke of Savoy sign Peace of Turin, a turning point in the War of the League of Augsburg,

1708 British troops occupy Menorca & Sardinia.

1708 Haverhill, Massachusetts destroyed by French & Indians.

1728 – The city of Nuuk in Greenland is founded as the fort of Godt-Haab by the royal governor Claus Paarss.

1742 Edmond Hoyle published his "Short Treatise" on the card game whist.

1756 England & France meet in war.

1756 – Prussian Frederick the Great attacks Saxony, beginning the Seven Years' War.

1758 – New Jersey Legislature forms the first American Indian reservation at Indian Mills, New Jersey.

1776 Americans withdraw from Manhattan to Westchester

1778 – American Revolutionary War: British and American forces battle indecisively at the Battle of Rhode Island.

1786 – Shays' Rebellion, an armed uprising in Springfield and Worcester,  Massachusetts, of farmers, begins in response to high debt and the government's increased efforts to collect taxes on both individuals and their businesses

1792 British man o'war HMS Royal George capsizes at Spithead; more than 800 killed.

1793 Slaves in French colony of St Domingue (Haiti) freed.

1807 – British troops under Sir Arthur Wellesly defeat a Danish militia outside Copenhagen in the Battle of Køge.

1825 – Kingdom of Portugal recognizes the Independence of Brazil.

1831 – Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction.

1833 Britain’s 1st Factory Act becomes law "to regulate the Labour of Children and young Persons in the Mills and Factories of the United Kingdom".

1838 Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm announce their intention to publish a German Dictionary, eventually completed in 1961, after 123 years.

1842 – Great Britain and China sign Treaty of Nanking, ending the First Opium War.

1844 1st white-indian lacrosse game in Montreal, Indians win.

1854 Self-governing windmill patented (Daniel Halladay).

1861 – American Civil War: United States Navy squadron captures forts at Hatteras Inlet, North Carolina.

1861 – American Civil War: The Second Battle of Bull Run - one of the Confederacy’s greatest victories of the entire war - was fought near Manassas, Virginia. 

1862 Battle of Aspromonte; Italian royal forces defeat rebels.

1862 Second Battle of Bull Run, fought in Manassas, Virginia begins, Confederate victory (US Civil War).

1862 US Bureau of Engraving & Printing begins operation.

1864 William Huggins discovers chemical composition of nebulae.

1869 – The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world's first mountain-climbing rack railway.

1871 – Emperor Meiji orders the abolition of the han system and the establishment of prefectures as local centers of administration. (Traditional Japanese date: July 14, 1871).

1883 First Carnegie library financed by industrialist Andrew Carnegie opens in Dunfermline, Scotland, the 1st of 2,509 libraries built around the world.

1883 Seismic sea waves created by Krakatoa eruption create a rise in English Channel 32 hrs after explosion.

1885 – Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first internal combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen.

1885 – John L. Sullivan is the first heavyweight boxing champion. The title match was fought with 3-oz gloves and 3-minute rounds.

1896 Chop suey invented in NYC by chef of visiting Chinese Ambassador

1898 – The Goodyear tire company is founded.

1900 Gaetano Bresci, the assassin of King Umberto I of Italy, is tried and sentenced to life imprisonment; he will commit suicide in jail on 22 May 1901.

1903 – The Slava, the last of the five Borodino-class battleships, is launched.

1903 The Finance Minister, Count Witte, is dismissed in what is seen as a victory for those in Russia who want their country to expand into Manchuria and Korea in defiance of the Japanese.

1905 Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza leaves Brazzaville.

1907 – The Quebec Bridge collapses during construction, killing 75 workers.

1909 AH Latham of France sets world airplane altitude record of 155 m.

1910 – The Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, also known as the Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty, becomes effective, officially starting the period of Japanese rule in Korea. Japan changes Korea's name to Chōsen and appoints a governor-general to rule its new colony

1911 – Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California.

1913 – Pieter Cort Van de Linden forms Dutch government

1914 – New Zealand forces capture German Samoa,

1914 – 4th day of Battle of Tannenberg (WWI): Russian Second Army panics, General Martos caught.

1914 – Arizonian is 1st vessel to arrive in San Francisco via Panama Canal.

1914 – Start of the Battle of St. Quentin in which the French Fifth Army under General Lanrezac counter-attacked the invading Germans at Saint-Quentin, Aisne.

1915 – US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, the first U.S. submarine sunk in an accident.

1916 – The United States passes the Philippine Autonomy Act (Jones Act).

1916 – The U.S. Naval Reserve is created by Congress.

1916 – General Paul von Hindenburg replaces Von Falkenhayn as German chief of staff

1916 – Transport ship Hsin-Yu & cruiser Hai-Yung collide; 1,000 die

1918 – Bapaume taken by the New Zealand Division in the Hundred Days Offensive.

1922 – The first radio advertisement is broadcast on WEAF-AM in New York City.

1924 Germany's Reichstag approves the Dawes Plan, which sought to solve the WWI reparations problem

1929 – Anne Morrow Lindbergh makes her first solo flight.

1929 German airship Graf Zeppelin ends a round-the-world flight

1930 – The last 36 remaining inhabitants of St Kilda are voluntarily evacuated to other parts of Scotland.

1932 International Anti-War Committee forms in Amsterdam

1932 United Cigar Stores shuts 800 shops

1939 Chaim Weizmann informs England that Palestine Jews will fight in WW II

1941 – Tallinn, the Capital of Estonia is occupied by Nazi Germany following an occupation by the Soviet Union.

1941 German Einsatzkommando in Russia kills 1,469 Jewish children

1943 – German-occupied Denmark scuttles most of its navy; Germany dissolves the Danish government.

1944 – Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60,000 Slovak troops turn against the Nazis.

1944 15,000 American troops liberating Paris march down Champs Elysees

1945 British liberate Hong Kong from Japan

1945 General MacArthur named Supreme Commander of Allied Powers in Japan

1946 – USS Nevada is decommissioned.

1947 B.R. Ambedkar is appointed chairman of the drafting committee for the Indian constitution

1949 – Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.

1950 International Olympic Committee votes to admit West Germany & Japan in 1952

1950 – Korean War: British troops arrive in Korea to bolster the US presence there.

1952 – New York premiere of history-based film "The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima"

1953 – USSR explodes its first hydrogen bomb

1953 – Speedy Gonzales, Warner Bros. cartoon character created by Chuck Jones and Michael
      Maltese (Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series), first debuts in "Cat-Tails for Two"

1954 – San Francisco International Airport (SFO) opens

1956 – French government routes troops to Cyprus near Suez crisis

1957 – Strom Thurmond (Sen-D-SC) ends 24 hr filibuster against civil rights

1958 – United States Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

1958 – Cliff Richard and the Drifters release single "Move It", Richards debut single. Credited as 1st British Rock n Roll song.

1958 – George Harrison joins The Quarrymen, who later become The Beatles

1960 – Jordan premier Hazza-el-Madjali deadly injured at bomb attack

1962 – Some provisions of Kuwaiti constitution are suspended

1962 – US U-2 flight sees SAM launch pads in Cuba

1964 – Stephen Sondheim's musical "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum", starring Zero Mostel, and Jack Gilford, closes at Alvin Theater, NYC, after 965 performances and 6 Tony Awards.

1965 – The Gemini V spacecraft returns to Earth, landing in the Atlantic ocean.

1966 Dutch Internal minister Smallenbroek resigns after driving drunk.

1966 – The Beatles perform their last concert before a crowd of 25,000, and 7,000 unsold seats, at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.

1966 – Leading Egyptian thinker Sayyid Qutb is executed for plotting the assassination of President Gamal Abdel Nasser.

1967 Final TV episode of "The Fugitive" starring David Janssen watched by 78 million people,

1968 Democrats nominate Hubert H Humphrey for US President at their convention in Chicago.

1970 Black Panthers confront cops in Philadelphia (1 cop killed).

1970 – Chicano Moratorium against the Vietnam War, East Los Angeles, California. Police riot kills three people, including journalist Rubén Salazar.

1974 USSR performs underground nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR.

1975 Star in Cygnus goes nova becoming 4th brightest in sky.

1978 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

1979 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.

1979 Sheridan Broadcasting Corp purchases Mutual Black Network.

1979 – Jeffrey R. MacDonald is convicted of the 1970 murders of his then-pregnant wife and two daughters.

1982 – The synthetic chemical element Meitnerium, atomic number 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany.

1985 Atlantis moves to launch pad for 51-J mission.

1986 Moroccan King Hassan II signs unity treaty with Libya.

1988 USSR launches 3 cosmonauts (Valery Polyakav, 1 Afghan) to station Mir

1990 C-5 transport plane crashes at Ramstein Air Force Base, Germany, killing 13.

1990 Saddam Hussein declares America can't beat Iraq.

1991 Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev signs decree to close Semipalatinsk test site (site of 456 Soviet nuclear tests 1949-89) after protests by Nevada-Semipalatinsk anti-nuclear movement.

1991 – Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party.

1991 – Libero Grassi, an Italian businessman from Palermo is killed by the Mafia after taking a solitary stand against their extortion demands.

1992 Irish rock band U2 plays the 1st of two sold-out nights at Yankee Stadium in The Bronx, NYC.

1995 NATO launches Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian Serb forces.

1996 – Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801, a Tupolev Tu-154, crashes into a mountain on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen, killing all 141 aboard.

1997 – At least 98 villagers are killed by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria GIA in the Rais massacre, Algeria.

1997 Netflix is founded by Marc Randolph and Reed Hasting in Scotts Valley, California as an online DVD rental business.

2003 – Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, the Shia Muslim leader in Iraq, is assassinated in a terrorist bombing, along with nearly 100 worshippers as they leave a mosque in Najaf.

2005 – Hurricane Katrina makes 2nd and 3rd landfall as a category 3 hurricane, devastating much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, killing an estimated 1,836 people and causing over $108 billion in damage.

2007 – United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident: Six US cruise missiles armed with nuclear warheads are flown without proper authorization from Minot Air Force Base to Barksdale Air Force Base.

2012 Banana Spider venom is found to be effective in relieving erectile dysfunction.

2012 Georgian hostage crisis results in 3 police officers and 10 militants being killed.

2012 Operation Eagle, undertaken by the Egyptian Army, results in the deaths of 11 suspected terrorists and the arrest of another 23.

2012 – At least 26 miners are killed and 21 missing after a blast in the Xiaojiawan coal mine, located at Panzhihua in Sichuan Province, China.

2013 41 people are killed and 33 are injured in a bus accident in Kenya.

2014 Riots break out in Guinea following rumours that health workers are deliberately transmitting the Ebola virus to locals.

2014 Senegal is 5th country hit by Ebola.

2016 Italian coastguard says 6,500 migrants rescued at sea in 40 separate incidents in 1 day off coast of Sabratha, Libya.

2017 Hurricane Harvey sets rainfall record (51.88 inches in Cedar Bayou) from a tropical cyclone in continental US, according to US National Weather Service.

2017 Monsoon rains in Mumbai cause chaos closing schools and airports.

2017 US President Donald Trump visits flood affected Texas.

2018 Former Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond resigns from the Scottish National Party amid sexual abuse allegations.

2018 Germany hands back human remains of Namibian Herero and Nama people murdered during 1904-08 genocide at church service in Berlin.

2018 John McCain is only the third person to lie in state at the Arizona state capital rotunda in Phoenix.

2018 Russian President Vladimir Putin announces new retirement ages, 60 for women, 65 for men in TV address, amid protests.

2019 Discovery of world's largest child sacrifice site announced by archaeologists with 227 victims from Chimú culture in Huanchaco, Peru.

2019 Scientists announce there is no single 'gay' gene with genetics accounting for at most 25% of same-sex behavior, in study published in "Science".

2020 Elon Musk unveils pig named Gertrude with coin-sized computer in her brain, part of his Nuralink start-up creating a brain-to-machine interface.

2021 Hurricane Ida makes landfall as a Category 4 storm near Port Fourchon, Louisiana, on the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.

2021 Missile and drone attack on al-Anad airbase in south Yemen kills at least 30 soldiers, one of the deadliest attacks in recent years.

2022 Worst violence in Iraqi capital Baghdad in years with 30 killed and 700 injured after Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr announces he is withdrawing from politics.



Saints' Days and Holy Days

Traditional Western

Beheading of St. John the Baptist     Greater Double
Commemoration of St. Sabina, Martyr


Contemporary Western

Beheading of St. John the Baptist
Euphrasia Eluvathingal (Syro-Malabar Catholic Church)
Sabina


Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran

John Bunyan (Episcopal Church)


Eastern Orthodox

August 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

The Beheading of the Glorious Prophet, Forerunner, and Baptist John (ca. 28)
Saints Candida (418) and Gelasia (422), of Constantinople
Saint Theodora, nun, of Thessaloniki, who was from Aegina (892)
Saint Arcadius of Arsinoe, Cyprus, Bishop and Wonderworker
Saint Basil I the Macedonian, Byzantine Emperor (886)

Saint Sabina, matron and martyr from Rome (c. 126)
Saint Sabina of Troyes, by tradition the sister of St Sabinian of Troyes in France
      where she was venerated together with him (c. 275)
Saint Candida, one of a group of martyrs who suffered on the Ostian Way
      outside the gates of Rome
Saint Euthymius, a Roman who fled to Perugia in Italy with his wife and his child,
      St Crescentius, during the persecution of Diocletian (4th century)
Saint Adelphus, an early Bishop of Metz and Confessor (5th century)
Saint Sæbbi of Essex (Sebbi, Sebba), King of Essex and monk (c. 694)
Saint Medericus (Merry), a monk at St Martin's in Autun,
      where he eventually became abbot (c. 700)
Saint Velleicus (Willeic), born in England, he followed St Swithbert
      to Germany and became Abbot of Kaiserswerth (8th century)
Saint Eadwold of Cerne (Edwold), hermit at Cerne in Dorset in England (9th century)
Saint Alberic, a monk who lived at Bagno de Romagua in Italy (1050)

Venerable Alexander, Abbot of Voche, near Galich (16th century)
New Martyr Anastasius (Spaso) of Strumica, at Thessaloniki (1794)
New Hieromartyr Peter Reshetnikov, Priest of Perm (1918)
New Hieromartyr Peter, Metropolitan of Krutitsa (1936)
New Martyr Theodore Ivanov of Tobolsk (1937)

Commemoration of all Orthodox soldiers killed on the field of battle
Translation of the relics (1699) of St. Joseph Samakus the Sanctified, of Crete (1511)
Repose of Hiero-Schemamonk Poemen of Cernica (1831)
Repose of Righteous Pachomius the Silent, of Valdai Monastery (1886)


Coptic Orthodox







In the news, Wednesday, August 21, 2013


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from Alex Jones (INFOWARS.COM)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

California law enforcement is now confiscating legally purchased guns from registered gun owners who have been labeled “Armed Prohibited Persons” (APPs.)

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from The Blaze (& Glenn Beck)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

BLACK ACTRESS LAYS INTO OPRAH OVER TRAYVON MARTIN, EMMETT TILL COMPARISON: ‘SHAME ON YOU’

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from Breitbart

FOX NEWS EXEC VP LEWIS FIRED, THROWN OUT OF BUILDING

MEDIA MATTERS RIPS NEW YORK TIMES OVER CLINTON FOUNDATION EXPOSÉ … AGAIN

AL JAZEERA AMERICA'S FIRST GUEST: 'JEW BAITER' STEPHEN WALT

CENSUS: 25% OF NEW JERSEY ADULTS MOVING BACK HOME WITH PARENTS

Record 57% of College Students Receive Federal Financial Aid

from The Guardian (UK)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

Astronaut recounts his near-drowning on spacewalk
Luca Parmitano gives interview relating the terrifying moments when his spacesuit helmet began to fill with water

Bradley Manning tells lawyer after sentencing: 'I'm going to be OK' – as it happened
Lawyer describes Manning reaction to 35-year sentence
'I'm hopeful he gets out in the near term,' lawyer says
Manning expected to be first up for parole in 7 years

Court's decision to free Hosni Mubarak adds to Egyptian turmoil
Ex-president to be put under house arrest, prime minister's office says, as EU suspends weapons exports in wake of killings

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from Huffington Post
[Information from this site may be unreliable.]

A Third Of Louisiana Republicans Blame Obama For Hurricane Katrina Response Under Bush

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from The Jerusalem Post

EU foreign ministers to discuss Egypt aid and policy at emergency talks

Hundreds of Syrians killed in alleged chemical attack by Assad's forces

Egyptian Jews: We support military’s fight against ‘terrorism’

Mubarak to leave jail, returns to face a divided Egypt
Court rules there is no longer any legal grounds for ailing former president's detention; Mubarak to be placed under house arrest.

UN chemical arms delegation in Syria says deadly attack should be probed
UK, France, Turkey and Saudi Arabia call for UN inspectors to enter site where hundreds allegedly killed; Arab League: "Deplorable crime."

Liberman: Turkish PM Erdogan is Nazi propagandist Goebbels' successor
Turkish Prim Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's hateful and incitement filled words against Israel is reminiscent of Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels, Yisrael Beytenu MK Avigdor Liberman said Wednesday.

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from KREM 2 News (CBS Spokane)

Nuns' album burning up charts
video


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from KXLY 4 News (ABC Spokane)

Police arrest duo accused of multiple Spokane bank robberies

Dog bite incidents by the number


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from National Review
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

HHS to Host Brown-Bag Lunches to Explain Obamacare to Employees
With a crucial Obamacare deadline a little over a month away, it appears that even employees at the department charged with implementing the law are still confused about its basic components.

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from POLITICO
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

Report: Maine Gov. Paul LePage says Obama ‘hates white people’

Fonda: Nancy Reagan wants to see 'The Butler'

On launch day, AJAM sues AT&T
Even on its inaugural day of broadcasting, Al Jazeera America was still fighting for visibility.
Hours after its launch at 3 p.m. ET, AJAM announced that it had filed a lawsuit against AT&T, which dropped the nascent channel from its U-verse pay-TV service at the last minute citing "breaches by Al Jazeera of the existing agreement."

Chris Christie: ‘I am proud’ of Steve Lonegan

Obama endorses Booker for Senate

AP classes failing students
Taxpayers have spent hundreds of millions of dollars in recent years to nudge more students into Advanced Placement classes — but a close look at test scores suggests much of the investment has been wasted.

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from PreventDisease.com
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

Don't Ever Give This Vaccine To a Child
The HPV vaccine marketed under Gardasil, Silgard and Cervarix is possibly the biggest vaccine hoax in the last century.

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from Space.com (& CollectSpace)

Red Giant Stars: Facts, Definition & the Future of the Sun
A red giant star is a dying star in the last stages of stellar evolution. In only a few billion years, our own sun will turn into a red giant star, expand and engulf the inner planets, possibly even Earth.

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from The Spokesman-Review

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from The Wall Street Journal

Poll: Chinese Use ‘Daddies’ to Get Ahead
More than 80% of respondents to an online survey in China said many young people have relied on powerful parents to get ahead at work.   Among the 3,809 respondents, only some 10% said they value hard work in becoming successful.  Is nepotism OK in the workplace?

Small Firms Use Security Cameras to Boost Business

How 'Power Poses' Can Help Your Career
Posture actually affects a person's hormones and behavior, new research shows

Manning Sentenced to 35 Years in WikiLeaks Case
Soldier Faced Maximum Sentence of 90 Years

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