Sunday, July 27, 2014

In the news, Friday, July 11, 2014


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Information from some sites may not be reliable, or may not be vetted.
Some sources may require subscription.

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from ABC News (& affiliates)
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from ACLJ (American Center for Law and Justice)
from Alex Jones (INFOWARS.COM)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
from AMAC - The Association of Mature American Citizens
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from Ancestry.com

Free Records Available on Ancestry.com
There are hundreds of free databases available on Ancestry.com. Join Crista Cowan for a look at the records available to you even without a current subscription. She'll show you how to access them, how to search them, and how to attach them to your tree. She'll also share some tips for making note of what you want to search the next time you renew your subscription.

Today is World Population Day. How Diverse Are You?
Did you know that there are more than 7.2 billion people living today? The five most-populous countries are: China, 1.39 billion; India, 1.27 billion; United States, 333 million; Indonesia, 253 million; Brazil, 202 million.

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

Former Top NYT Editor: Obama Officials Repeatedly Told Me 'You'll Have Blood on Your Hands'

ABC Cheers Belgian Woman's Modeling Contract, Ignores That It Was Revoked After 'Hunting Americans' Joke

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from Columbia Basin Herald

Grand opening at Quincy Community Health Center
Community members got a look at the new Quincy Community Health Center at a grand opening Tuesday evening. The 22,000-square-foot building opened to patients in April. Construction cost about $7.5 million, said Sheila Chilson, executive director of Moses Lake Community Health, which operates the Quincy clinic.

Shoreline closure security costs detailed
The Grant County PUD is spending between $450,000 and $600,000 per month to patrol the riverbank behind Wanapum Dam, which is closed to public access. The water level was dropped Feb. 28 after a crack was discovered in one of the spillway pillars at the dam. The closure affects about 90 miles of shoreline.

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from The Daily Caller

Pentagon Successfully Tests First Small-Caliber, Self-Guided Bullets

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from Daily Surge
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from EarthSky

Does a supermoon have a super effect on us?
The moon (and sun) creates the tides. An extra-close full moon creates higher tides. But this same gravitational effect doesn’t extend to humans.

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from East Oregonian

Service dogs don’t always receive warm welcome

YOUNG SWAN RISING
Jingle dancing helps girl overcome scars from fire

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from FactCheck.org
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from Fox News (& affiliates)

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from Heartland Institute
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from The Heritage Foundation
from History

10 Things You May Not Know About Babe Ruth
On July 11, 1914, 19-year-old George Herman Ruth Jr. played his first game for the Boston Red Sox, pitching seven innings and allowing two earned runs in a win over Cleveland. A century after Babe Ruth's major-league debut, check out some surprising facts about one of baseball's biggest icon.

This Day in History
LEAD STORY: Burr slays Hamilton in duel, 1804

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from Huffington Post
from IFL Science

Strange Radio Signals Mystify Astronomers

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from The Inlander
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The word 'narcissist' is used so much these days that you might think we're in the midst of an epidemic. But pathological narcissism is not just about having an inflated ego — it's a very serious psychological disorder.

The Antares Rocket Launch Will Be Visible July 12 – Here's How To Watch

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from Judicial Watch, Inc.

JW Beats IRS in Court

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from MEDIAite

L’Oreal Kills World Cup Fan’s Modeling Contract After Joke About Hunting Americans

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from Money Talks News

7 Unconventional Yet Proven Ways to Land the Job You Want

Take 5: A Roundup of Reads From Around the Web
1. 4 Ways Financial Adversity Makes You a Better Person
2. 5 Wealth Concepts You Need to Teach Your Children
3. 3 (Incorrect) Reasons You Think You’re ‘Bad with Money’
4. Skip the Airport Security Line for $20 per Year
5. 8 Ways to Take a Break at Work (and Still Look Busy)

The Secrets of Buying and Selling for Profit
What is retail arbitrage and how can it make you money? Buy local, sell global!

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from Mother Jones

Was Iraq's Top Terrorist Radicalized at a US-Run Prison?
A former US military compound commander at Camp Bucca suspects ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's extremism was fostered (or bolstered) at the facility.

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from myscienceacademy.org
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from National Review

Two Cheers for a Constitutional Convention
It might well be the right way to limit government, or at least start a conversation about it.

Obama’s Law Professor: ‘I Wouldn’t Bet’ on Obamacare Surviving Next Legal Challenge

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from Nature News and Comment

First Modi budget spells austerity for Indian science
Funding drops in real terms, but researchers hopeful things will improve.

Oxygen fluctuations stalled life on Earth
Swings in oxygen levels may be behind a mysterious billion-year hiatus in evolution.

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from NBC News (& affiliates)
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from New York Times

Digitizing the Family History

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from Northwest Watchdog

Nanny-stater of the Week: Who needs cupcakes and candy? Here, have a pencil
Edmonds School District, in the suburbs south of Seattle, has approved a ban on cupcakes, candy and other sweet treats that children typically bring to school to celebrate their birthdays. Instead, district officials say kids should distribute pencils to their classmates on those special days – because pencils are every bit as much fun as cupcakes.

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from NWCN (ID-OR-WA)
from Patheos
[Information from this site may be questionable.]

Five Reasons the Hobby Lobby Decision Should Terrify You
[Atheist Channel]

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from Popular Science

The Week In Numbers: GMO Safety Testing, Guinea Worm Infections, And More

The Week In Drones: Fireworks, Found Poetry, Chinese Test Targets, And More

High-Flying Rocket Plumes And Other Amazing Images Of The Week

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from Prevention Magazine

7 Weird Body Symptoms—Solved
Skin bumps, shaky hands, lines under the fingernails... Are they something or nothing? Your body's quirkiest quirks, explained.

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from Rare

Rand Paul is polling better against Hillary in Florida than two of the state’s most prominent Republicans
The latest Florida state polling shows that Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is rated better than Republican Floridians Sen. Marco Rubio and former Gov. Jeb Bush in potential match-ups with Hillary Clinton.

Officer gives aggressive pitbull “Chance” a chance after sparing its life
“First of all not all big dogs are dangerous and second of all not all police officers are out to shoot big dogs,”

One congressman just took the steps necessary to arrest Lois Lerner

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from Science-Based Medicine

The Truth?
Judging from the metastasis of pseudo-medicine into many of the prominent medical institutions in the US, I suspect that these institutions are more interested in income than science-based medicine.

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from ScienceBlogs.com

A Scottish doctor endorses Robert O. Young’s “pH Miracle Living”

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from ScienceDaily

Non-invasive urine test could be used to predict premature birth, delivery of small babies
Testing for the presence of specific molecules present in the urine of pregnant women can give an indication in early pregnancy of whether a baby will be born premature or the fetus will suffer poor growth, according to research. Identifying these conditions early in pregnancy could potentially help reduce complications and manage any difficulties, although more work is needed before the findings can be translated to clinical settings.

Out of an hours-long explosion, a stand-in for the first stars
Astronomers analyzing a long-lasting blast of high-energy light observed in 2013 report finding features strikingly similar to those expected from an explosion from the universe's earliest stars. If this interpretation is correct, the outburst validates ideas about a recently identified class of gamma-ray burst and serves as a stand-in for what future observatories may see as the last acts of the first stars.

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from Skeptoid Podcast
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from Space.com (& CollectSpace)

Buzz Aldrin Visits Space.com Monday for Apollo 11 Google Hangout

Comet-Chasing European Probe Photographs Its Lumpy, Icy Target
Recent photos snapped by the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft suggest that its target comet, known as 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, is a lumpy object sporting three large structures, or perhaps a deep hole, researchers said.

Private Cargo Ship Launch to Space Station Delayed to Sunday

Surfin' on Sunlight! Privately Funded Solar Sail to Launch by 2016

Future Moon Exploration: How Humans Will Visit Luna
(Infographic)

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from The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA)

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from USA Today
from The Weekly Standard

The Truth About Iraq And why it matters
BY DICK CHENEY and LIZ CHENEY

New York Threatens to Fine Car Service $2,000 for Giving Free Rides

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from The Western Center for Journalism
(Western Journalism)

This Chart Reminds The Rest Of The World Why America Shouldn’t Be Messed With
The single biggest reason why the U.S. military is just so dominant is because of its powerful Navy. The U.S. has 19 aircraft carriers. The rest of the world only has 12, COMBINED. The U.S. carriers are also so much more technologically advanced than any other country’s.

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from Yahoo News

Hundreds battle central Washington wildfire

Taliban debate merits of Islamic State's caliphate announcement

Taliban hideouts revealed as Pakistan army seizes militant redoubt

Obama official says immigrant kids draining funds

Billionaire trio unite for US immigration reform
Three of the world's richest men -- Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Sheldon Adelson -- put aside their political differences to unite in scathing condemnation of US lawmakers' failure to implement immigration reform.

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from 100 Percent FED Up


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