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from ABC News (& affiliates)
Why Victims' Families Are Furious About 9/11 Memorial Museum
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from About.com
Six Wives of Henry VIII
Today in 1536: Anne Boleyn is beheaded for adultery. Wonder what happened to King Henry VIII's other five wives?
Lunchtime Workouts
Midday workouts are a great choice if you have trouble squeezing workouts into your busy schedule. Not only can you get a great workout in a short period of time, you'll boost your energy for the rest of the day.
Today in 1536: Anne Boleyn is beheaded for adultery. Wonder what happened to King Henry VIII's other five wives?
Lunchtime Workouts
Midday workouts are a great choice if you have trouble squeezing workouts into your busy schedule. Not only can you get a great workout in a short period of time, you'll boost your energy for the rest of the day.
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from ACLJ (American Center for Law and Justice)
from BizPac Review
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from Breitbart
WHY DID COCHRAN WAIT NEARLY THREE WEEKS TO BRING BREAK-IN INFO TO POLICE?
The personal attorney for Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) offered little explanation late Monday for why nearly three weeks elapsed between when Cochran's campaign initially learned a crazed blogger had broken into his wife's residence and when he went to the police with information about the incident, leading to the blogger's arrest Friday.
TEA PARTY PATRIOTS CITIZENS FUND POLL: MCDANIEL BEATING COCHRAN 43-36
A new poll from Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund shows that Tea Party-backed state Sen. Chris McDaniel has seven-point lead over 36-year incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS).
POLL: TEA PARTY'S MCDANIEL LEADS COCHRAN 43-39
A new Citizens United Political Victory Fund poll shows that six-term incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) is slightly trailing his Tea Party challenger state Sen. Chris McDaniel just a couple weeks from election day in Mississippi. The election is on June 3.
6 AWESOME MOMENTS FROM ADAM CAROLLA'S 'PRESIDENT ME'
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from CBS News (& affiliates)
Not ready for climate change? Your town may get sued
Should insurance companies be able to sue cities for not preparing for the impact of climate change?
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Should insurance companies be able to sue cities for not preparing for the impact of climate change?
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from Chicago magazine
The Truth About Chicago’s Crime Rates: Part 2
Murder makes the headlines, but crimes like theft and assault are far more common in Chicago—and your chances of being a victim may be higher than the police are telling you.
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The Truth About Chicago’s Crime Rates: Part 2
Murder makes the headlines, but crimes like theft and assault are far more common in Chicago—and your chances of being a victim may be higher than the police are telling you.
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from CNN
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from CNSNews.com (& MRC & NewsBusters)
ABC, NBC Ignore Report Showing Obama Administration Knew About Ongoing VA Problems
Of the big three networks, only the CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley covered the new revelations in the VA scandal. CBS News host Scott Pelley noted that “The Bush White House was so concerned about this back in 2008 that it warned the incoming Obama Administration.”
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from Cyndi's List
Oral Family History Fades in Just Three Generations
Food for thought to get us working on recording our family stories
[via FamilySearch] Ever frighten yourself when you couldn’t recall a family story or experiences you know had to have been recounted to you many times by your grandparents? Ever wonder why you know very little about the personal lives of your grandparents or great-grandparents? Aaron Holt of the National Archives and Records Administration says that “it only takes three generations to lose a piece of oral family history.” If you want to avoid losing those precious family stories passed down through the generations, Holt continued, the story “must be purposely and accurately repeated over and over again through the generations to be preserved.”
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from Fox News (& affiliates)
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from The Heritage Foundation (The Foundry)
Saving for Retirement -- Without the Government
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) is spot on that our entitlement programs, namely Social Security and Medicare, cannot continue as they are. They won’t last for another generation at the benefit levels people have become accustomed to.
Indiana Governor Defends Expansion of Medicaid Alternative to 350,000
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Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) is spot on that our entitlement programs, namely Social Security and Medicare, cannot continue as they are. They won’t last for another generation at the benefit levels people have become accustomed to.
Indiana Governor Defends Expansion of Medicaid Alternative to 350,000
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from Huffington Post
from iFIBER ONE News (WA)
Scott Kolves' body recovered from irrigation canal Monday morning
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How is Obamacare Like Slavery? Watch Dr. Ben Carson Baffle an NBC Host with Uncommon Straight Talk
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from International Christian Concern
(PERSECUTION.org)
More Cross Demolitions and Tightening Control Over House Churches in China
(Government Bans More House Church Gatherings and Controls Church Leaders in Zhejiang Province) ICC Note: We translated the Chinese article to English and it discusses Chinese government’s tightening control over the house churches in Zhejiang province. Church leaders and believers are threatened of facing unemployment or business shut-down if they do not stop gathering. We also see the control expanding to other provinces close to Zhejiang, such as Aihui province, according to ChinaAid. In the meantime, more crosses have been removed and most of them were not against any construction rules.
Christian Persecution Aid Volunteer Murdered by Boko Haram
ICC Note: In a city plagued by Boko Haram militants and their relentless attacks in pursuit of establishing a separate Islamic state in Northeast Nigeria to e ruled by Sharia law, a Christian volunteering with Voice of the Martyrs (VOM) was murdered. In a published statement, a VOM staffer said, “His death shocked almost all the Christian community.” According to those on the ground, more than 500 copies of the Christian organization’s newsletter on Nigeria were stolen from the victims car. In response, "Pastors in the area are now praying that the newsletters will minister to the militants," said VOM.
Malaysia: Tension Between Muslims and Christians
ICC Note: Media reported a series of controversial events taking place recently in Malaysia showing an escalating tension and mistrust between Muslims and Christians: the largest Malaysian public university hosted a seminar that claimed all Christians should convert to Islam; a church got attacked due to the dispute over the use of the Arabic word "Allah" by non-Muslims. The increasing tension can be seen also from the columnist's suggestion to Malaysian Muslims reported in this article: Muslims to "infiltrate churches" to hear what Christian is said of Muslim.
At Least Five Killed in Suicide Attack in Predominantly Christian District
ICC Note: At least five innocents were killed Sunday when a suicide attacker killed himself and at least four others, including a twelve year old girl in the predominantly Christian district of Sabon Gari (foreign quarter), in Kano, Northeast Nigeria. Though no organization has claimed responsibility for the attack at the time of this posting, those on the ground suspect Boko Haram, which carried out notorious bombing campaigns in that same district in March and July of last year.
Why Should Fair Trials for MB Suspects be Important to Egyptian Christians?
ICC Note: Recent trials for members of the recently banned political group, the Muslim Brotherhood, kick off with an obviously tense politicized undertone. Their brief rule in the Egyptian government proved deadly to religious minorities, most particularly Christians. The obvious question comes: how should Egyptian Christians respond to these trials? In an attempt to uphold adopted Article 14 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Egyptians are seeking and should continue to seek fair trials. A legal system that ignores its laws will not be able to protect the rights of anyone. So Christians should call for trials to be carried out on the basis of evidence and for those responsible for the violence to receive punishment in accordance with the law.
Persecuted Christians flee Iran, find hope and homes in Germany
ICC Note: Christians in Iran face escalating persecution for converting from Islam. Women like Afsaneh who have converted have received lashings and even jail time for their faith. Seeking refuge in Germany, nearly 4,500 have left Iran and migrated to Europe. As crackdowns in Iran worsen, churches in Berlin and throughout Germany can come to expect a growing population of Christians seeking refuge.
Leader of Boko Haram Declares “Jihad War Against Christians and Christianity”
ICC Note: Leader and spokesman of Boko Haram, a radical Islamic insurgency and U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) fighting for the establishment of a separate Islamic state in Northeast Nigeria to be ruled by Sharia law, said in a video released to Sahara Reporters, Abubakar Shekau said, “it is either you are with us Mujahedeen or you are with the Christians.” In what has proven to many a revelation, Shekau pledged war against Christians in Nigeria, even going so far as to equate Nigerian politicians’ affiliation with Western officials or ideals as apostasy, or the act of leaving Islam, which, under Sharia law, is punishable by death.
Christians in Pakistan’s FATA Demand Equal Rights
ICC Note: Christian from Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) has demanded the Supreme Court and the Peshawar High Court take the necessary steps in ensure that the basic constitutional and human rights afforded them are protected and enforced. According the Christians in the FATA, they are being denied these rights by local government officials. Will Pakistan's government stand up and take notice or will it turn a blind eye to the suffering of Christians in one of the world's most dangerous places?
ICC Calls Attention to Sudan’s Sentencing to Death of a Pregnant Mother
ICC Note: Faith-based and human rights organizations are drawing mass attention to the case of Meriam Yahia Ibrahim, a Christian mother pregnant with her second child who has been sentenced to 100 lashes and death for adultery and apostasy in Sudan. Calling on the U.S. and other members of the international community to apply pressure to the government of Sudan, ICC's William Stark said, "we [do] not want Sudan to feel like they could go through with this case without the world knowing, without the world watching." In its awareness efforts, ICC has started a social campaign, pushing people to tweet and post #ForMeriam.
Will India’s New Government Represent All Indians, Including Christians?
ICC Note: Now that Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) set to form India's next national government, many are left wondering whether the government they form will be for all Indians, including Christians and other minorities. Modi and BJP have a past of sectarian violence. Coming from the Hindu nationalist ideology, many wonder how the next government will treat Christians and other religious minorities. Please pray that Modi and BJP will overcome their Hindu nationalist past and rule India to the benefit of all Indian citizens.
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from Investor's Business Daily
Obama Was Warned About VA 'Death Panels' 5 Years ago
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from Jen Kuznicki
Rove Myth Debunked
MYTH: Karl Rove is on our side.
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from KGW-TV (Portland)
Judge strikes down Oregon's gay marriage ban
U.S. District Judge Michael McShane has ruled that Oregon's voter-approved ban on gay marriage is unconstitutional.
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from Money Talks News
from The New Yorker
from New York Times
De Blasio Tells City’s Tabloids to Apologize to His Wife
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from Northwest Watchdog
Why I don’t like Bill Clinton
Monica Lewinsky is back in the news because the former White House intern wrote an article in this month’s Vanity Fair, reflecting on her tryst that consumed the media and the entire nation for nearly two years.
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from On Pasture
Dr. Temple Grandin designed livestock handling facilities with curves and solid sided tubs to keep livestock moving forward without fear. But analysis by Whit Hibbard and Dr. Lynn Locatelli shows that livestock don’t respond well in these facilities. Here’s Part 3 of their analysis.
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from Popular Science
A Terrible Thing That Waits (Under The Ocean)
There’s a line in the mine warfare community twisted from the United Negro College Fund slogan and gets (over) used all the time: “A mine is a terrible thing that waits.”
Chinese Special Forces Take 1st, 2nd And 4th Place At 'Olympics' For Elite Warriors
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from PreventDisease.com
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
20 Health Secrets of Bitter Gourd
Bitter gourd is a popular vegetable in some Asian countries, where the health benefits of the plant are well-known--particularly, its ability to lower blood glucose in diabetics. Bitter gourd has been used to treat diabetes in traditional medicine and is now commercially available as tea (from fruits or leaves), juice, extracts, and pills. In recent years researchers worldwide have started to focus on the many antidiabetic effects and other health secrets of bitter gourd.
Boost and Fortify Your Second Brain
Two heads are better than one is an old saying that relates to brainstorming with another. But scientific studies are discovering another aspect of increasing mental acuity and restoring or maintaining mental and emotional stability. It comes with acknowledging and nurturing your “second brain”. But it's it's not in your skull, it's in your gut.
20 Health Secrets of Bitter Gourd
Bitter gourd is a popular vegetable in some Asian countries, where the health benefits of the plant are well-known--particularly, its ability to lower blood glucose in diabetics. Bitter gourd has been used to treat diabetes in traditional medicine and is now commercially available as tea (from fruits or leaves), juice, extracts, and pills. In recent years researchers worldwide have started to focus on the many antidiabetic effects and other health secrets of bitter gourd.
Boost and Fortify Your Second Brain
Two heads are better than one is an old saying that relates to brainstorming with another. But scientific studies are discovering another aspect of increasing mental acuity and restoring or maintaining mental and emotional stability. It comes with acknowledging and nurturing your “second brain”. But it's it's not in your skull, it's in your gut.
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from ScienceDaily
I like your genes: People more likely to choose a spouse with similar DNA
Individuals are more genetically similar to their spouses than they are to randomly selected individuals from the same population, according to a new study. Scientists already knew that people tend to marry others who have similar characteristics, including religion, age, race, income, body type and education, among others. Scientists now show that people also are more likely to pick mates who have similar DNA.
Keywords hold our vocabulary together in memory
Like key players in social networks, scientists have found evidence that there are keywords in word networks that hold together groups of words in our memory. The existence of keywords opens up many possible real-life applications such as helping individuals with word finding after stroke. Conversely, removing a keyword through psycholinguistic tasks, could actually disrupt language processing - fracturing our word network.
Earth organisms survive under Martian conditions: Methanogens stay alive in extreme heat and cold
New research suggests that methanogens -- among the simplest and oldest organisms on Earth -- could survive on Mars. Methanogens, microorganisms in the domain Archaea, use hydrogen as their energy source and carbon dioxide as their carbon source, to metabolize and produce methane, also known as natural gas. Methanogens live in swamps and marshes, but can also be found in the gut of cattle, termites and other herbivores as well as in dead and decaying matter.
from Slate
What Climate Change Will Do to Your City
By 2300, these iconic cities could be underwater.
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from Space.com (& CollectSpace)
Private Team Hopes to Contact 36-Year-Old NASA Probe This Week
3 Private Moon Lander Concepts Make NASA's Short List
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Then and Now: Motor Bus Depot
In the 1920s, the gasoline-powered bus was showing itself to be a more flexible mode of public transit than the streetcar or train. Three old buildings along Front St., between Howard and Wall St., were turned into a bus depot in 1924 by the Auto Interurban Co. and the Spokane-Lewiston Stage Line. The depot was the brainchild of Herbert S. Hawley, operator of the Auto Interurban Company. He started in 1911 with two passenger cars carrying passengers from the train depot in Priest River up to Priest Lake. He came to Spokane in 1913. When Hawley died at age 78 in 1953, Auto Interurban was running 50 local and regional buses. More companies were added until a new depot was needed. The Union Bus Depot opened in 1949 at 1125 W. Sprague. The old depot continued for a few years, then closed for good. Great Northwest Federal Savings and Loan tore the buildings down in 1977 to make way for a new bank.
3 Private Moon Lander Concepts Make NASA's Short List
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from The Spokesman-Review Newspaper in Spokane, WA
Then and Now: Motor Bus Depot
In the 1920s, the gasoline-powered bus was showing itself to be a more flexible mode of public transit than the streetcar or train. Three old buildings along Front St., between Howard and Wall St., were turned into a bus depot in 1924 by the Auto Interurban Co. and the Spokane-Lewiston Stage Line. The depot was the brainchild of Herbert S. Hawley, operator of the Auto Interurban Company. He started in 1911 with two passenger cars carrying passengers from the train depot in Priest River up to Priest Lake. He came to Spokane in 1913. When Hawley died at age 78 in 1953, Auto Interurban was running 50 local and regional buses. More companies were added until a new depot was needed. The Union Bus Depot opened in 1949 at 1125 W. Sprague. The old depot continued for a few years, then closed for good. Great Northwest Federal Savings and Loan tore the buildings down in 1977 to make way for a new bank.
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from Think Progress
In Landmark Class Action, Farmers Insurance Sues Local Governments For Ignoring Climate Change
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from Time
Here’s How Netflix Is About to Change Radically
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from TPNN (Tea Party News Network)
Dr. Ben Carson Schools NBC’s David Gregory on Slavery, Obamacare and Marxism
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from USA Today
Google turns its logo into giant Rubik's Cube
from The Washington Free Beacon (DC)
Tom Steyer Buys Harry Reid
Left wing eco-billionaire Tom Steyer has formally purchased Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.). Steyer recently donated $5 million to Senate Majority PAC, the pro-Democratic Super PAC run by former Reid aides, making him the single largest contributor to the group.
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from The Washington Post (DC)
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from The Washington Times (DC)
Obama seizes N.M. land for national monument in Bundy-like showdown
President Obama on Wednesday will declare a national monument in southern New Mexico, delivering a win for environmentalists but angering ranchers and local law enforcement, who say the land restrictions will end up creating a safe haven for drug cartels to operate within the U.S.
President Obama on Wednesday will declare a national monument in southern New Mexico, delivering a win for environmentalists but angering ranchers and local law enforcement, who say the land restrictions will end up creating a safe haven for drug cartels to operate within the U.S.
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from The Weekly Standard
Smithsonian Exhibit: Since 9/11, Indian Americans Don't Feel 'Safe Or Welcome Here'
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Thinking in a Foreign Language Could Sway Your Moral Judgments
Modeling the Thrust From a Quadcopter
Insane Time-Lapse Footage Shows Monstrous Storm Cloud Forming
What Television Will Look Like in 2025, According to Netflix
Why Tech’s Best Minds Are Very Worried About the Internet of Things
The Most Fuel Efficient Gas Cars of All Time
How Google Built Its 3-D Interactive Rubik’s Cube Doodle
Eruption Update for May 19, 2014: Hawai’i, St. Helens, Kick ‘Em Jenny, Shiveluch and Ubinas
Amazing New Guardians of the Galaxy Trailer Has Another Killer Soundtrack
The Daring Three-Year Expedition to Reveal the Creatures of the Deep
U.S. Indictment of Chinese Hackers Could Be Awkward for the NSA
from WIRED
Insane Time-Lapse Footage Shows Monstrous Storm Cloud Forming
What Television Will Look Like in 2025, According to Netflix
Why Tech’s Best Minds Are Very Worried About the Internet of Things
The Most Fuel Efficient Gas Cars of All Time
How Google Built Its 3-D Interactive Rubik’s Cube Doodle
Eruption Update for May 19, 2014: Hawai’i, St. Helens, Kick ‘Em Jenny, Shiveluch and Ubinas
Amazing New Guardians of the Galaxy Trailer Has Another Killer Soundtrack
The Daring Three-Year Expedition to Reveal the Creatures of the Deep
U.S. Indictment of Chinese Hackers Could Be Awkward for the NSA
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from 12Tribe Films Foundation
If You Don’t Think The Jewish Exodus From Egypt Was Real, Then Watch This Video And Think Again
________If You Don’t Think The Jewish Exodus From Egypt Was Real, Then Watch This Video And Think Again
from 100 Percent FED Up
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