Friday, March 7, 2014

In the news, Thursday, February 6, 2014


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FEB 05      INDEX      FEB 07
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Some links to some sources may require subscription.

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from About.com

Protein: How Much Do You Need?
Are You Getting the Right Amount of Protein?
What is protein? How much protein do we need? Is it possible to eat too much protein? These are important questions for people following a low-carb way of eating, who usually are replacing part of their carbohydrate intake with protein.

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from ACLJ (American Center for Law and Justice)

Lois Lerner Loves it When a Plan Comes Together
The plan to suppress the Tea Party and use the IRS to functionally overturn Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission is coming together quite nicely.

ACLJ Grateful President Obama Raises Plight of American Pastor Saeed

The IRS Assault of Dissenting Speech
Read what ACLJ Chief Counsel Jay Sekulow had to say testifying before Congress this week about the IRS scandal.

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from AMAC - The Association of Mature American Citizens
from The Blaze

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from Breitbart

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from Canada Free Press
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from CBS News (& affiliates)
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from CNSNews.com (& NewsBusters)

The Media's Most Outrageous Olympic Outbursts: Saluting the Socialists

Obama at Prayer Breakfast: ‘Killing the Innocent’ Is ‘Ultimate Betrayal of God’s Will’

HuffPo Blogger to Pope Francis: ‘God Obviously Trusted Women’ to Choose Abortion

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from Columbia Basin Herald

Woman allegedly cuts man with box cutter

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from Cyndi's List

LDS Church members will get free access to more family history records
[Shared from Deseret News] Don Anderson, a senior vice president of patron and partner services at FamilySearch, announced that for the general public, free access would be granted for Ancestry.com, FindMyPast.com and MyHeritage.com in LDS Church family history centers worldwide. Members of the LDS Church will be granted free subscriptions to Ancestry.com (the world edition subscription), MyHeritage.com (plus subscription) and FindMyPast.com (plus subscription), accessible from any location. These sites have between three and four times the number of records FamilySearch has, so it's a substantial amount of both records and technology.

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from Doubtful News
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from EarthSky

How your memory rewrites your past
Your memory isn’t like a video camera. Instead, your memory plucks fragments of the present and inserts them into the past to create a story to fit your current world.

NASA spacecraft spots new crater on Mars
Cosmic paintball! NASA image of dramatic new impact crater on the planet Mars.

Death toll climbs to 16 since Mount Sinabung eruption
Thousands displaced from their homes. Disaster agencies still mobilizing medical and social services. A thin layer of ash expected to arrive in Malay Peninsula on Wednesday.

Polaris, aka the North Star, is getting brighter
Modern interpretations of the historical data indicate that Polaris could be as much as 4.6 times brighter than it appeared to some of the earliest astronomers.

Gemini? Here’s your constellation
Several ways to find the constellation Gemini, plus some of the sky lore and mythology associated with this constellation.

A uniquely human brain area?
It’s called the ventrolateral frontal cortex. It’s a part of the brain involved in human processes, such as strategic planning and multi-tasking.

Hearing improves after a week of blindness
A study suggests that the loss of one sense – vision – can improve another sense – in this case, hearing – by altering the brain circuit.

Stellar luminosity: The true brightnesses of stars
Nearly every star that you see with the unaided eye is larger and more luminous than our sun. Astronomers speak of a star’s true brightness as its “luminosity.”

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from East Oregonian

Suspect identified in Hermiston killing
Sheriff says Timothy Allen Kelly shot Daniel Dechand in vehicle

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from Examiner.com

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from Facecrooks

someone made a profile named “Luca Pelliciari” and he uploaded some of your photos! is that you? Facebook Scam
[Repost] We first warned about this scam last night, and we are still receiving numerous reports about it. Do not open Facebook messages containing Zip file attachments [filename.zip]. Victims are reporting malware infections after opening these files.

Fake Facebook Profiles and Pages – the Tools of Scammers, Bullies and Thieves

Four Things You Need To Do If Your Facebook Account Gets Hacked
A huge scam wave hit Facebook yesterday. Users received messages from compromised accounts containing malware laden zip files. If you or a friend was affected by this scam, then use this link to try and reclaim the hacked account.

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

Lower Cholesterol, Treat Diabetes, Detox Metals, and Much More…  Fenugreek

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from The Federalist

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from Greatist

34 Healthy Meals for Two

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from The Heritage Foundation  (The Foundry)

from iFIBER ONE News (WA)

Fire destroys a shed on Crescent Bar Island Thursday morning

Deer hits car in Moses Lake
The headline only appears backwards when it comes to collisions between cars and deer.

Annual homeless count finds 177 people in Grant County

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from Independent Journal Review

CBO Director: As If It's Not Enough for Obamacare to Kill Millions of Jobs, It's Going to Lower Wages, Too

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from Indian Country Today Media Network
[Information from this site may be unreliable.]

By the Numbers: A Look at Native Enlistment During the Major Wars
Native Americans have the highest per-capita involvement of any population to serve in the U.S. Military

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from Money Talks News

Major Winter Storm? Here’s the Emergency Gear You Need in Your Car

10 Best Jobs for College Grads in 2014
Software developer, Computer systems analyst, Dentist, Nurse practitioner, Pharmacist, Registered nurse, Physical therapist, Physician, Web developer, Dental hygienist.

Could the Post Office Make Payday Lenders Obsolete?
More than 25 percent of US households are under-served by our banking structure. Can USPS save them?

from Mother Nature Network

Make your own natural red food dye for Valentine's treats
Instead of coloring treats with artificial red dye, try one of these natural red dye alternatives for cupcakes, cookies and more.

The world's 10 oldest living trees

Confused about the difference between food labeled organic and natural?
A new video campaign uses humor to educate about the difference between organic and natural food labels.

How fast could you travel across the U.S. in the 1800s?
Today, we shrug off the convenience of long-distance travel as part of life, but it wasn't that long ago that simply getting there required a huge investment of time and money.

7 snow white animals that flourish in winter

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from National Aeronautics and Space Administration - NASA

NASA Mars Rover Curiosity Sees 'Evening Star' Earth
The rover's view of its original home planet even includes our moon, just below Earth.

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from National Geographic

Why Pickle Brine Is a Secret Weapon Against Ice
In the effort to melt ice and snow, salt and calcium chloride have strange—and eco-friendly—company.

Oldest Living Tree Found in Sweden
[from 14 Apr 2008]

A Mission to Reach the “Snows of the Nile”

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from The New Yorker

AS TECHNOLOGY GETS BETTER, WILL SOCIETY GET WORSE?

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from New York Times

Health, Work, Lies

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from Northwest Watchdog

Florida House aims to protect school kids who play with imaginary guns
This story comes to us from our Florida branch, but we think it's important to share. Isn't it tragic that we need to protect kids who play with toy guns?

7 reasons why believing this teachers’ union is a very bad idea

Shelby Sebens explains 4 problems with Seattle’s $15 per hour minimum wage idea

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from Popular Science

How An NYU Team Built And Tested A Flying Jellyfish Robot

Let This Robot Write An Employee Farewell Letter For You
"P.S. Alvaro, you still owe me a drink for that thing, okay?"

In The Brain, Distances In Space, Time, And Social Relationships Look The Same
A brain-scanning study finds a small region of the brain that treats "far from me," "distant acquaintance," and "later" as similar concepts.

Technology Must Prevent Texting While Driving, Say Doctors
Note: DO NOT read this story on your cellphone while driving.

Better Know A Plague: Measles, Mumps & Rubella

Chickens Wear Prosthetic Dinosaur Tails, For Science
Simulating ancient gaits with barnyard fowl

How Hands Hold Babies' Attention
Joint attention happens when two people are focused on the same object, and babies start to understand it very early on.

Engineering The Ideal Olympian: Real-Time Data For Going Big In The Half-Pipe
Last fall, members of the U.S. team began recording their velocity, body angle, and G-force with a wearable device. In the half-pipe, an accelerometer, gyroscope, and magnetometer help gather data every tenth of a second.

Three Ways To End Life On Earth, According To 1962
A disturbing thought experiment (with diagrams) by Cold War-era scientists

Hair Play
2014 marks the centennial anniversary of the discovery of x-ray crystallography by Team Bragg and Max von Laue, who was awarded the 1914 Nobel Prize. As such the United Nations General Council saw fit to proclaim this year the International Year of Crystallography.

Science Confirms The Obvious: Being Shot In The Face Is Bad

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

Study Confirms That Matters of the Heart Directly Influence The Health of Your Heart
University of Utah researchers have shown that the ways in which you are supported, can actually have significant bearing on your overall cardiovascular health. The findings announced by Psychological Science reveal that when both partners perceive having mixed feelings about the support they get from each other, each partner’s levels of coronary artery calcification (CAC) tend to be particularly high.

Farmer Takes Battle Over Raw Milk To Highest Court
About five years ago, dairy farmer Michael Schmidt began his role of lawyer at his trial for selling raw, unpasteurized milk and declaring his rights were violated. Now he's determined to defend his right to provide raw milk urging a top court to recognize that laws around pasteurization were outdated, unjust and infringed on basic freedoms.

Turmeric Smoothie - So Tasty You Won't Believe It Has One of the Most Powerful Antioxidants In The World
If you wanted to create the perfect smoothie with anti-cancerous properties, potent anti-inflammatories, as well as anti-viral, anti-bacterial and anti-fungal constituents, look no further than adding turmeric. Although turmeric has a lightly bitter taste, you won't even notice it in this delicious recipe that will have you craving it daily.

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from Real Clear Politics
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from The Telegraph (UK)

'Oldest living thing on earth' discovered
Ancient patches of a giant seagrass in the Mediterranean Sea are now considered the oldest living organism on Earth after scientists dated them as up to 200,000 years old.
[from 7 Feb 2012]

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from ThatsNonsense.com

Major Hack involving photos of you warning - Facebook Scam
Facebook users are reporting receiving spam messages via the Facebook Messages facility that claim they have had photos of them uploaded to a Facebook account owned by someone else. The message provides a link to a ZIP folder where the recipient can apparently view the photos.

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from The Washington Post (DC)

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from The Weekly Standard

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