Monday, February 25, 2013

In the news, Monday, February 25, 2013


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SUN 24      INDEX      TUE 26
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phone cam photo by Cousin Sam
Pastor celebrates 90th birthday

Adeline Nordhagen, pastor if Shiloh Miracle Center since the early 1970s, had her 90th birthday on February 18.  Members and several guests celebrated after yesterday's service with pot luck and cake.

Sunday service at Shiloh starts at 3:30 p.m.   The church has been in a number of different locations in the Spokane area over the years, and is currently located on the third floor of the second building at the Valley Professional Center, N. 112 University Road.

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from Collective Evolution
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

10 x Stronger Than Steel In The 1940′s: Henry Ford’s HEMP Car.

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from The Columbia Basin Herald

Girl, 3, dies in Lind house fire

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from Forbes

The nineteenth century, many people believe, was an era in American history when workers were forced to toil in sweatshops twenty-eight hours a day for starvation wages. It was only when governments intervened, either directly on behalf of workers or indirectly by empowering unions, that conditions improved. The facts tell a different story—one that reveals the unmatched power of capitalism to improve human life.

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from KHQ.com

UPDATE: 3-Year-Old Dies After House Fire In Lind

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from The Spokesman-Review

Fire that killed 3-year-old girl started by candle

Budget solution appears unlikely
With deep cuts set to kick in Friday, leaders pass blame

Impact in Washington

Impact in Idaho

Afghans bar elite U.S. troops
Karzai gives American special forces two weeks to leave strategic province

Castro says new five-year term as president will be his last

Benedict gives final papal Sunday blessing
Pontiff’s nearly eight-year reign will end Thursday

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In brief:  FromWire Reports:

Prisoner’s death may spark new uprising

RAMALLAH, West Bank – The mysterious death of a 30-year-old Palestinian gas station attendant in Israeli custody stoked new West Bank clashes Sunday, along with Israeli fears of a third Palestinian uprising.

A senior Palestinian official alleged that Arafat Jaradat was tortured by Israel’s Shin Bet security service, citing an autopsy he said revealed bruising and two broken ribs.

Israel’s Health Ministry said the autopsy did not conclusively determine the cause of death, but that the bruising and broken ribs were likely the result of attempts to revive the detainee.

Jaradat’s death came at a time of rising West Bank tensions, including several days of Palestinian marches in support of four hunger-striking prisoners in Israeli lockups. In all, Israel holds nearly 4,600 Palestinians, including dozens who have never been formally charged.


Syrian rebels battle for police academy

BEIRUT – Rebels backed by captured tanks launched a fresh offensive on a government complex housing a police academy near the northern city of Aleppo on Sunday, while the government hit back with airstrikes to try to protect the strategic installation, activists said.

If rebels capture the complex on the outskirts of Aleppo, it would mark another setback for President Bashar Assad. In recent weeks, his regime has lost control of key infrastructure in the northeast including a hydroelectric dam, a major oil field and two army bases along the road linking Aleppo with the airport to its east.

On Saturday, opposition fighters in the eastern province of Deir el-Zour overran a military post believed to have once been the site of a partly built nuclear reactor that Israeli warplanes bombed in 2007.

Also on Sunday, prominent Syrian comedian Yassin Bakoush, 75, was killed in Damascus after apparently being caught in the crossfire between rebels and government troops.

French freelance photographer Olivier Voisin, who was wounded on Thursday in Syria and taken to Turkey for treatment, died of his wounds at an Istanbul hospital, the French Foreign Ministry said Sunday.


Cypriots elect conservative president

NICOSIA, Cyprus – Conservative candidate Nicos Anastasiades won Cyprus’ presidency Sunday by one of the widest margins in 30 years, and now faces the formidable task of preventing the country from suffering a financial meltdown.

Anastasiades, 66, won the runoff election with 57.48 percent of the vote, far ahead of left-wing rival Stavros Malas, who got 42.51 percent, final results showed.

The election comes as Cyprus is negotiating a financial rescue package with the eurozone’s other 16 countries and the International Monetary Fund.

The wide margin of victory in favor of Anastasiades indicates Cypriots are prepared, to a degree, to stomach what could be painful austerity measures to reform the economy, as well as a snub to left-wing rule that many feel is responsible for the country’s sorry economic state.


Austrian says abductors will kill him

CAIRO – An Austrian man held hostage in Yemen for two months has appealed to his government to save his life, saying his captors would kill him in a week if their ransom demand was not met. The Austrian Foreign Ministry said a government crisis group met Sunday to discuss the case.

Dominik Neubauer, who was kidnapped with a Finnish couple on Dec. 21, said in a video posted on the Internet Saturday and monitored in Cairo, that he was kidnapped by a Yemeni tribe “which is asking for some money.” He spoke on the video with a rifle pointed at his head. He did not say how much his captors were seeking.


Dozens more say friar abused them

TOLEDO, Ohio – About 50 more people have come forward to say they were sexually abused at Catholic schools in Pennsylvania and Ohio by a Franciscan brother who killed himself in January, said an attorney who settled 11 alleged abuse cases against the friar.

Brother Stephen Baker, 62, stabbed himself in the heart at a western Pennsylvania monastery Jan. 26, a little more than a week after the disclosure of financial settlements in alleged abuse cases in Warren, Ohio. A coroner told the Altoona Mirror that Baker left a short note apologizing for his actions.

The new accusers have alleged in recent weeks that they were abused between 1982 and 2007, attorney Mitchell Garabedian said Sunday. Some said Baker abused them even after he left teaching in 2000 when he would attend school events in Johnstown, Pa., Garabedian said.

The latest allegations come from people in 12 states who went to school in Warren or were either middle school or high school students in Johnstown, where Baker taught and coached, Garabedian said.

The Boston attorney said he’s also heard from four people who say they were abused while Baker was at a high school in Orchard Lake, Mich.

Baker was named in legal settlements in January involving 11 men who alleged he sexually abused them at a Catholic high school in northeast Ohio three decades ago. The undisclosed financial settlements involved his contact with students at John F. Kennedy High School in Warren from 1986 to 1990.

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The Rock Doc: Durum wheat now has a softer side

System will slap baby too
Leonard Pitts Jr.
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sports:

Tournaments feature rough roads to titles
Greg Lee      The Spokesman-Review

State 2B and 1B pairings at Arena

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Career Transitions helps older adults catch up with technology

Social Security’s paper cuts rub seniors the wrong way

Experts warn effects of drinking impact us faster as we age


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from The Washington Examiner (DC)

Why Unions Want a Higher Minimum Wage
Labor contracts are often tied to the law—and it reduces the competition for lower-paying jobs.

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