Friday, April 25, 2014

In the news, Friday, April 11, 2014


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APR 10      INDEX      APR 12
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from ABC News (& affiliates)

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from ACLJ (American Center for Law and Justice)

Victory for Bible Club in NY

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from Alex Jones (INFOWARS.COM)
from AMAC - The Association of Mature American Citizens

Two Leading Senior Groups Join Together
AMAC and Generation America have united to strengthen advocacy efforts on behalf of America’s seniors.

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from Ancestry.com

Online Trees. Root of All Evil?
Should online trees be part of your everyday research? Ancestry Anne gives you some reasons why they should.

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from Bloomberg

Voice of America Broadcast Silenced by Russian Officials
The Voice of America, which has broadcast from inside Russia since the end of the Cold War, has been silenced in the new chill between Russia and the U.S.

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from Breitbart

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from CBS News (& affiliates)
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from CNSNews.com (& MRC & NewsBusters)

Sebelius’ Parting Words: ‘And Unfortunately, a Page Is Missing’

ABC Apologizes for Story That Connected Mozilla CEO to Hateful Westboro Baptist

Letterman Heir Colbert Mocks Convoluted Common Core Math
"But folks, as much as I didn't expect it, I may be coming around to the Common Core because it turns out that Common Core testing prepares our students for what they will face as adults: pointless stress and confusion," Colbert said.

Jay Carney Sneers at Reporter's Question About Obama's Treatment of Sebelius

Priest's 'Hallelujah' Gets High Praise
The video of Father Ray Kelly's version of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” was taped at a recent wedding in Ireland and has become an internet sensation.

Actress Under Fire for Praising 'Valuable' Role of Women as Nurturers at Home
Actress Kirsten Dunst came under attack from nasty feminists on the Internet for remarks she made in the U.K. edition of Harpers Bazaar magazine.

Megyn Kelly Rips CAIR Spokesman: 'I'm Not Going to Let You Hijack This Segment'

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from Columbia Basin Herald

MLIRD to start search for new manager
Moses Lake Irrigation and Rehabilitation District directors hope to have a new general manager in place by mid-July.

Water pressure cause of Wanapum Dam crack
Shelling at Yakima Training Center was not a factor

Two injured when semi hits cars near Vantage
Westbound traffic on Interstate 90 near Vantage came to a halt Wednesday morning after a Moses Lake truck driver collided with three vehicles.

Boy receives mechanic Cyborg hand from far reaches of the internet

2 dead in Thursday night crash near Moses Lake
Peggy A. Dubey, 58, of Moses Lake, and Terri J. Vannoy, 42, of Ephrata, both died at the scene.

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from Facecrooks (& Bitdefender)

Facebook Follower Scam Prompts Victims to Inject Themselves with Dangerous Code
[Scam Alert] Don't fall for the Facebook Follower scam! Copying and pasting code directly into your browser is a big red flag - doing so bypasses security protocols and could leave you open to malicious payloads.

Why do data breaches happen? 4 myths debunked
It seems like every time you turn around another data breach is making headline news. Unfortunately, there are several myths circulating about these breaches. Arm yourself with the facts, and check out this post from our friends at Abine, Inc. to learn why data breaches happen!

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from The Farmacy (& Strawbale City)
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from The Federalist

Are Neocons Permitted to Define Their Own Worldview? Depends.
from Freedom Foundation (WA)

5 Facts about Education Funding
Few people have the time to comb through all the sources and data on the state's education funding. Yet the information is valuable for parents and taxpayers who care about how funding is allocated. School Directors and lawmakers also benefit from understanding this data.

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from Greatist

The Serious Health Concern All 20-Somethings Should Know About
Question: Beyond their fame, what do singer Bret Michaels, pop songstress Selena Gomez, and TV anchor Cynthia McFadden have in common? Answer: All these celebrities are living with autoimmune diseases, which occur when the body's immune system mistakenly attacks and destroys its own healthy body tissue.

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from The Heritage Foundation  (The Foundry)

The U.S. Should Stop Favoring Russia on Nuclear Weapons

To Lead HHS, Obama Picks Overseer of Government Shutdown Decisions

Jeb Bush Defends Calling Illegal Immigration 'Act of Love'

The Charts Obama Doesn't Want You to See
Talking about Obamacare’s effects is one thing; seeing hard data is another. Heritage’s newly updated Obamacare in Pictures has 15 charts that show the law’s effects on Americans—from canceled insurance policies to new taxes, Medicare cuts, reduced choice for plans, and more.

Washington Post Op-Ed: You Didn’t Pay For That (And She’s Right)
Past and current retirees receive much more in benefits from Social Security and Medicare than they paid into the systems. Absent reform, younger generations will get stuck with an unfair burden and less financial security.

Obamas, Bidens Pay About Same in 2013 Income Taxes, Returns Show

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from History

6 Things You Should Know About Napoleon
Today is the 200th anniversary of Napoleon Bonaparte's first exile. At the height of his power, Napoleon Bonaparte controlled a huge chunk of Europe, from the Iberian Peninsula in the west to present-day Poland in the east. But on April 11, 1814, after a series of military setbacks culminating in the fall of Paris, he abdicated as emperor of France and was ordered into exile on the Mediterranean island of Elba.

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from iFIBER ONE News (WA)

Two men sentenced for robbery, assault and pursuit in Moses Lake

Moses Lake woman and Ephrata woman die in collision on SR 17

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from Independent Journal Review

Watch Greta Turn Democrat Who Vowed to Wage War on Fox News Into Blubbering Mound of Foolishness

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from The Inlander (Spokane, WA)

Yesterday, the jury determined Gail Gerlach was not guilty of manslaughter. Just over a year ago, Gerlach shot dead Kaluza-Graham as he drove away in Gerlach's SUV, stolen from the driveway as it warmed up for its morning commute. Directly after the shooting, a heated debate sprouted around the issues of self defense, gun rights and vigilante justice.

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from LiveScience

Futuristic Screen Projects 3D Images onto Fog
Like a hologram from "Star Wars," a 3D picture projected onto a curtain of fog could be the computer screen of the future. New screens allow users to interact with objects and move them around a desktop surface.

Did life evolve differently in the ocean's deepest trenches? How scientists plan to find out.

Yuck! Video Shows Sneezes Move Farther Than Thought

Drunken Monkeys: Does Alcoholism Have an Evolutionary Basis?

Space Legs for NASA's Robonaut 2 to Ride SpaceX Dragon Into Orbit

Salamanders Shrink as Climate Heats Up

Soldiers Prefer Synthetic Marijuana

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from Los Angeles Times

Daily coffee habit linked to lower risk of liver cancer, study says
In their continuing quest to prove that coffee is indeed a health food, medical researchers analyzed the health records of nearly 180,000 Americans and determined that the ones with a daily java habit were less likely to get a common type of liver cancer than their less-caffeinated counterparts.

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from MEDIAite

That ‘War on Fox’ Guy Is Not Actually Running for Congress as a Democrat
Cable news and the Internet have many things in common, one of which is that they are both populated by lots of shameless attention-seekers. Perhaps it’s time to count the supposed Democratic House “candidate” Mike Dickinson — he of “war on Fox News” fame — as one of them?

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from Money Talks News

15 Ways to Cut Your Fine Dining Bill in Half

Take 5: A Roundup of Reads From Around the Web
1. Before You Take Out a Loan
2. Strange and Unusual Taxes!
3. Should I Home-School My Kids?
4. Long-Term-Care Insurance: Necessity or Rip-Off?
5. 12 Things You’re Doing Wrong Before Noon (and How to Fix Them)

7 Steps to Make Millions With Your Bright Idea
Coming up with the idea is the easy part! The rest of it, though, is probably a bit harder.

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from Mother Nature Network

What Meditation Isn’t
Does meditation really work for everyone? Are some people just not wired for it? Here's the real deal on the most common misconceptions from mindfulness meditation coach Louise Jensen.

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from National Geographic

Ancient Daddy Longlegs Had Extra Set of Eyes

Drones: Archaeology's Newest Tool to Combat Looting
In Jordan, aerial drones will conduct a five-year survey of looted Dead Sea sites.

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

Junk Food to Blame for Weight Gain and Laziness, Says UCLA Study

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from NWCN (ID-OR-WA)

Facebook cleaning up spam in News Feed
The social network says it is bolstering its News Feed to cut back on spammy content or posts begging for Likes.

Oregon may sell Elliott State Forest to help schools
The 90,000-acre Elliott State Forest north of Coos Bay includes some the last older forest in the Coast Range, making it a battleground over logging and habitat for protected fish and wildlife. Legal battles over logging and protections for threatened species have turned the forest from an asset into a liability, costing the Common School fund $3 million last year.

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from PJ Media

CAIR Attacked Ayaan Hirsi Ali Because They are Islamic Supremacists with Links to Terrorists
Bob Beckel just went on a rant against CAIR, the Council on American Islamic Relations, on Fox’s The Five. Beckel accused CAIR of lacking “guts” in not standing up for Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s rights after Brandeis University shamefully rescinded an honorary degree that it had planned to give her. Brandeis made that decision under pressure from Muslim students, and ultimately CAIR itself, after those groups accused Ali of being anti-Muslim.

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from Popular Science

New Chinese Spy Ship, Coming Soon To A U.S. Naval Exercise?

Big Pic: A Prettier Greenhouse For Growing Veggies In Space
This is the largest structure people have sent to space for growing edibles.

Sound Waves Sculpted On Walls And Other Amazing Images From This Week

Project LIGO: How Lasers Could Reveal Glimpses of Gravitational Waves
The ripples from violent cosmic collisions can be felt far across the universe, and thanks to a new, sensitive detector expected to start collecting data next year, scientists might be able to see evidence of those gravitational waves from Earth for the first time.

Facial Expressions Aren't As Universal As Scientists Have Thought
A new study contradicts the common assumption that emotion-based facial expressions are recognized across cultures.

Australia Declares Homeopathy "Useless"
Then again, Australia still thinks it's a good idea to cull sharks.

Software Shows What Children Will Look Like In 70 Years, With Unprecedented Accuracy

Four Women Doing Fine After Getting Vagina Implants Made From Their Own Cells
The women have Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome, which gives them underdeveloped vaginas and uteruses.

Atlas Stumbled: Why Humanoid Robots Are Still A Brilliant, Bumbling Mess

Transforming Helicopter-Truck Hybrid Makes First Flight

What You Post On Yelp Says More About You Than About The Food
Linguistic analysis of reviews provides insight into Yelpers' psyches

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

12 Health Boosting Juice and Smoothie Combinations That Are Also Very Tasty

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from RedState


Ken Cuccinelli: More Sacrifices to Come in Fight for Religious Liberty

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from The Right Scoop

from ScienceDaily

Computer rendering: Graduate student brings extinct plants 'back to life'
Most fossilized plants are fragments indistinguishable from a stick, but a graduate student hopes a new technique will allow paleontologists to more precisely identify these fossils. A graduate student showed the power of this technique by turning a 375 million-year-old lycopod fossil into a life-like rendering.

How nerve cells flexibly adapt to acoustic signals
Nerve cells flexibly adapt to acoustic signals, research has shown. Depending on the input signal, neurons generate action potentials either near or far away from the cell body. Nerve cells ensure that the various kinds of input signals are optimally processed -- and thus allow us to perceive both small and large acoustic arrival time differences well, and thereby localize sounds in space.

Appearance of night-shining clouds has increased
First spotted in 1885, silvery blue clouds sometimes hover in the night sky near the poles, appearing to give off their own glowing light. Known as noctilucent clouds, this phenomenon began to be sighted at lower and lower latitudes -- between the 40th and 50th parallel -- during the 20th century, causing scientists to wonder if the region these clouds inhabit had indeed changed -- information that would tie in with understanding the weather and climate of all Earth.

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from Slate

Stephen Colbert Is the Best Source of Science on TV
Will he be stuck interviewing dingbat celebrities at CBS?

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from Smithsonian Magazine

Message in a Bottle, Found in the Baltic Sea, Is 100 Years Old
While this new Baltic bottle will probably take the prize for oldest verified message in a bottle, it's probably not actually the oldest

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from Space.com (& CollectSpace)

from The Washington Times (DC)

Death by solar farms: 71 species of birds killed, ‘entire food chains’ disrupted
A new report by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service finds that solar facilities in California are acting like “mega traps” that kill and injure birds. As a result, “entire food chains” are being disrupted

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from The Western Center for Journalism
(Western Journalism)

Shocking Allegations Show Harry Reid, Chinese Company Behind Nevada Ranch Standoff
The ranch, which has been in Cliven Bundy’s family for more than a century, is ground zero for a growing showdown between federal authorities and individual rights activists.

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from WIRED

The Intricate, Beautiful Patterns of Civilization Seen From Above

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