Friday, April 11, 2014

In the news, Tuesday, March 18, 2014


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MAR 17     INDEX      MAR 19
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from ABC News (& affiliates)

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*from ACLJ (American Center for Law and Justice)

from AMAC - The Association of Mature American Citizens
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from Ancestry.com

from The Atlantic

What It's Like to Be Right About the Big Bang: Genesis of a Viral Video
What's it like to learn that your decades' worth of work have paid off? Now we know.

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from The Blaze

from Breitbart
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from BuzzFeed
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

Are Your Genetic Traits Dominant Or Recessive?
Who needs an expensive DNA analysis when you can take this quiz?

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

Chris Hayes MSNBC Promo: 'I'm There To Do Politics—Not Talk About It'

Rep. Lamar Smith: Liberal Media Bias ‘The Greatest Threat We Face in America’

Actor Kevin Sorbo: ‘In the Last Two Elections If You Didn’t Vote For Obama You’re Considered Racist’

Feminist Amanda Marcotte Compares Abortion to Cavity Removal, Calls Babies ‘Time-Sucking Monsters’

ObamaCare Enrollment Still Falling Short, CBS Spins it as 'Milestone'

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from Columbia Basin Herald

Ephrata pursuit ends in crash Thursday
Ephrata police were led on a chase Thursday night through Ephrata and Soap Lake after attempting to stop an Ephrata man wanted by police in an undisclosed investigation.

Man survives shooting near Moses Lake
A man survived a shooting Friday night on Airway Drive Northeast.

SkillSource honors workers, businesses

Former Othello councilman facing wire fraud charges

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from The Daily Caller

Report: Premiums rising faster than eight years before Obamacare COMBINED

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from EarthSky

Before and after images of enormous landslide in Alaska
The landslide on the slopes of Mount La Perouse in Alaska on February 16, 2014 is thought to be the largest known natural landslide on Earth since 2010.

Almost snack time for our galaxy’s supermassive black hole
Telescopes around the world are turning to our galaxy’s center, to watch our Milky Way’s supermassive black hole consume a gas cloud.

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from Examiner.com
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from Facecrooks

Facebook: “Jewish Ritual Murder” Page Does Not Violate Community Standards
See also from cnet, 5 Feb 2014: Facebook ordered to take down anti-Semitic page

Top Ten Facebook Scams to Avoid
[from 27 Aug 2011] #5 on the list is breaking news stories. Scammers have been tricking unsuspecting users by capitalizing on the Malaysia Airlines story. We have received reports of phishing schemes and malware downloads exploiting this incident.

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from Family Tree Magazine

Genealogy Tips for Tracing Female Ancestors

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from The Farmacy (& Strawbale City)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

8-Year-Old Girl Raises pH levels And Shrinks Cancer Tumors By 75 % With Diet

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from The Federalist

Libraries Are Failing America
Why are we subsidizing the entertainment needs of the middle class?

Veronica Mars: The Promise of Fan-Funded Movie Making

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from Forbes

The Most Heartwarming Moment From Yesterday's Groundbreaking Physics Discovery
Yesterday, our understanding of the universe changed. An experiment at the South Pole zoomed in on the light, still visible today, from the time just following the Big Bang, when the universe was superheated, electrified plasma and found it was distorted by gravitational waves.

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from Freedom Foundation (WA)

Big Government's business -crushing tomorrow’s dreams today
In every state and city it seems government (with help and incentive from Washington, D.C.) has grown into its own business. This is the business of crushing our dreams, rather than protecting our rights.

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from Greatist

How Anyone (Yes, Even You) Can Learn to Cook
How to Overcome Every Possible Excuse for Not Learning to Cook
No time? Hate grocery shopping? Tiny kitchen? David Spinks, cofounder of the online cooking bootcamp Feast, shares extremely easy, actionable tips to help you work around any roadblock to becoming a confident, capable home cook.

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from The Heritage Foundation  (The Foundry)

Obama Should Have Listened to Romney on Russia

President Obama Considers Wholesale Rejection of Immigration Enforcement Laws

Does the Obamacare Deadline Apply to Me?

Why That Missing Malaysian Plane Could Be a National Security Threat 

Moms: This Is What Your Government Expects of You

Billions Wasted on “Improper” Food Stamp Payments

Putin Is Launching a New Version of the Evil Empire. What the U.S. Needs to Do Now.

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from The Hill

Another Biden gaffe
Vice President Biden misspoke on Tuesday, claiming he had led the fight for Poland to join NATO when he served as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Biden, whose tendancy toward gaffes is well known, served as chairman from 2001 to 2003; Poland joined NATO in 1999.

Obama to Hispanics: We won’t deport relatives because you enroll in ObamaCare

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from History

Scientists May Have Found Key to Unlock Big Bang Mystery

7 Bizarre Witch Trial Tests
Practicing black magic was once considered a heinous crime on par with rape and murder. The 18th century B.C. Code of Hammurabi contained provisions against sorcery, and many medieval legal systems listed specific parameters for identifying, trying and even executing suspected witches and warlocks.

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from Houston Chronicle

Principal who told kids not to speak Spanish will lose job
Hempstead issue sharpens focus on rising state Latino enrollment

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from Huffington Post
from iFIBER ONE News (WA)

Elected officials support treatment for kids using guns in crimes

Report of gunshots lead Moses Lake police to arrest man for drugs

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from Independent Journal Review

Actor Kevin Sorbo Stands Up For Christianity, Slams Bill Maher as an Angry & Lonely Man

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from International Christian Concern
(PERSECUTION.org)

Priest Kidnapped by Pro-Russian Forces in Crimea
ICC Note: The ongoing conflict between Ukraine and Russia over the Crimea peninsula has captured world headlines for the past several weeks. Now, a new religious dimension appears to be taking root, as pro-Russian forces have ordered Ukrainian Greek Catholic clergy to abandon their congregations in the Crimea and leave the area. The Church has decided to remain, regardless of the potential risks. On Saturday, it was reported that Father Mykola Kvych had been abducted by pro-Russian forces. His whereabouts remain unknown.

Leader of China’s Underground Catholic Church Dies Under House Arrest
ICC Note: Bishop Joseph Fan Zhongliang, the president of the underground Bishops conference of China, died on Sunday evening in home at the age of 97. Father Fan was arrested in 1958 for his faith and spent 20 years imprisoned in a work camp before his release in 1978. Despite this imprisonment, Father Fan continued in ministry, eventually becoming the bishop of Shanghai. China does not recognize the authority of the Vatican and runs it's own Catholic church through the Catholic Patriotic Association, regularly ordaining clergy not recognized by the Vatican. An underground Catholic church also exists, though it is routinely harassed and dozens of priests have been detained by authorities over the past decade.

Asia Bibi’s Appeal Hearing Postponed
A date for a new hearing has not yet been decided. Convicted under the 'blasphemy law,' the Christian woman is on death row since 2010.

Homeless Shelter in Belarus Closed for Having a Prayer Room
A Christian in Belarus was running a homeless shelter out of his home and had no trouble from the government until he opened a prayer room as part of the shelter. This prayer room was seen as an "unregistered organization" and the shelter was stripped of it's legal rights.

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*from Jen Kuznicki

Every Time A Conservative Caves An Independent Gets His Wings

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from KXLY 4 News (Spokane)

Gov. Inslee joins Washtucna students to sign Palouse Falls bill

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from LiveScience

Society Is Doomed, Scientists Claim

Ride the Rapids on Google's New Colorado River View

19 New Swift & Clever Praying Mantises Discovered
Nineteen new species of praying mantis reveal previously unknown insect diversity in South and Central America.

Is There About to be a Dash for Antarctica's Resources?
(Op-Ed)

Our Universe May Exist in a Multiverse, Cosmic Inflation Discovery Suggests

Erasing Bad Memories: Wiping Out Unconscious Traces Is Possible

New Source of Vitamin B12 Discovered in the Ocean

How Well Do Fitness Trackers Monitor Heart Rate?

Freaky Physics: Why the Discovery of Gravitational Waves Should Blow Your Mind

Killer Robots: Natural Evolution, or Abomination?

What Gravitational Ripples from Big Bang Mean for Physics

The Printed Face is Just the Beginning of a 3D Revolution
(Op-Ed)

Why Does Rain Smell Good?
[from 21 Jun 2013]

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from MEDIAite
from Money Talks News

7 Ways to Stop the Shopping Habit
Aside from quitting cold turkey, you can stop your bad spending habits now and save tons!

Survey: 1 in 3 Lie to Get Cheaper Car Insurance Rates

Ask Stacy: Should I Use a Mortgage Broker or a Bank?

New Proof That Money Can Buy Access to Congress

Survey: 1 in 3 Americans Have More Credit Card Debt Than Savings

Billionaire Buys $201 Million Life Insurance Policy
A Silicon Valley-based billionaire now owns the world’s most expensive life insurance policy.

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from Mother Nature Network

2013's updated Dirty Dozen produce list
[from 22 Apr 2013] Each year, the Environmental Working Group ranks supermarket produce by its pesticide load. The top offenders become the Dirty Dozen, the fruits and vegetables you should consider buying in their organic form.

20 ways to reuse coffee grounds, tea leaves
[from 19 Nov 2012] It's unlikely that coffee or tea is growing in your garden, so after you finish that cup, put the grounds to work with these clever ideas.

12 reasons to start using a bicycle for transportation
[from 2010] Economic instability and ever-increasing climate change are just two of the many reasons riding a bike is an excellent alternative to driving.

Food safety 101: How to safely store food from 1 season to the next
If you grow your own food, it's time to learn how to store it properly.

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from NASA

NASA Releases First Interactive Mosaic of Lunar North Pole

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from National Geographic

Narwhal's Trademark Tusk Acts Like a Sensor, Scientist Says
The Arctic whale's tusk is actually a tooth that can grow more than nine feet long; it has baffled people for centuries.

Big Bang Discovery Opens Doors to the "Multiverse"
Gravitational waves detected in the aftermath of the Big Bang suggest one universe just might not be enough.

COSMIC DAWN
In the 20th century the universe became a story—a scientific one. It had always been seen as static and eternal. Then astronomers observed other galaxies flying away from ours, and Einstein’s general relativity theory implied space itself was expanding—which meant the universe had once been denser. What had seemed eternal now had a beginning and an end. But what beginning? What end? Those questions are still open.

Our Favorite Pictures From India's Holi Celebrations
India celebrates the end of winter with dance and a dash of color.

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

Poisonous Chemtrail Rain is Killing our Trees

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from Nature News and Comment

[via International Journal of Obesity]

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from NBC News (& affiliates)
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In a feat that would have been unimaginable a few decades ago, the anti-vaccine movement has managed to breathe life into nearly vanquished childhood diseases.

Con Ed being probed in Harlem gas blast

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from NWCN (ID-OR-WA)

Photog's son: Dad was kind person, great human
KOMO Photojournalist Bill Strothman died in today's helicopter crash. His son Dan is also a photographer at KOMO. Dan shared their bond with us today.

Ken Bone fired after five seasons at WSU

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from Popular Science

A New Material For Night-Vision Contact Lenses

Strong Link Established Between Trust and Intelligence

NASA-Sponsored Study Warns Of Possible Collapse Of Civilization
Two scenarios of how it may all come crashing down

The virtues of curiosity
The Editor's Letter From The April 2014 Issue Of Popular Science Magazine

Radar Will Scan NYC Park For A Buried Luxury Bomb Shelter From 1964
See also from narratively, 17 Oct 2012:  IS IT DOWN THERE?  A subterranean mystery lingering since the 1964 World’s Fair has baffled history buffs from Flushing to Florida.

NSA Program Monitors An Entire Country's Calls, Has Wizard Mascot
Which is more disturbing?

Far More Than A Hole In The Ground

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from PreventDisease.com
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from Skeptoid Podcast

Gravitational Waves and Inflation

Zeno's Paradoxes
Greek philosopher Zeno proved that movement was impossible with a few simple paradoxes.
[from 19 Jul 2011]

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from ThatsNonsense.com

4 Ways Scammers are exploiting the Malaysian Airlines mystery

UFO behind clouds video - Internet/Facebook Rumour
In reality the video is part of a marketing campaign for a company called AtitudeMediaBox.

Scammer poses as Prince Harry to lure victims
An Austrian floor fitter has been conned out of thousands of Euros by a scammer on Facebook who posed at Prince Harry.

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from The Washington Post (DC)

NSA surveillance program reaches ‘into the past’ to retrieve, replay phone calls
The surveillance system is capable of recording “100 percent” of calls in at least one foreign country.

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from The Washington Times (DC)

CARSON: Political correctness and the slavery of Obamacare
Speech taboos are meant to silence patriotic dissent

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from The Weekly Standard

Pastor Diagnosed With Cancer: 'No Compassion in the Affordable Care Act'
A pastor recently diagnosed with cancer, and who is covered under Obamacare, tells a local Iowa reporter that there's 'no compassion in the Affordable Care Act.'

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from The Wenatchee World (WA)

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from The Western Center for Journalism
(Western Journalism)

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from Wired

A pilot with 20 years of experience provides the best explanation yet on what happened to flight MH370.

That Signal From the Beginning of Time Could Redefine Our Universe
The physics world was on fire yesterday after an announcement that astronomers had detected a signal from the beginning of time. This is exactly as cool as it sounds. Maybe even cooler. And it might lead to us learning further crazy things about our universe.

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