Monday, October 27, 2014

In the news, Monday, October 13, 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 Breitbart
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from CNSNews.com (& MRC & NewsBusters)
from The Daily Caller

Liberal Senate Candidate: Republicans Don’t Care If Babies Starve  [VIDEO]

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from Daily Mail (UK)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

'Origami' condoms, Michelle Obama gardening games and poop-throwing chimps: NIH spent millions on wacky projects but now complains cuts killed off Ebola vaccine research

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from Dc Gazette
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

Greatest Defense Is A Marine With A Gun! Give Our Military Their Guns
If we trust our military with weapons overseas shouldn’t we trust them here at home.

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from East Oregonian

Dead bear causes car crash
A Boise couple was injured and their service dog died Saturday night in a crash along Interstate 84 near Meacham when the driver lost control after running over a dead bear.

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from Education Action Group (EAGnews.org)

Louisiana school board votes to dump Common Core math

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from Fox News (& affiliates)

Ebola Fears Spreading
Ebola back in the top spot in our rundowns today as a Dallas nurse who treated the now-dead patient who brought the deadly disease from Africa tested positive. The female nurse became the first person to catch Ebola inside the United States. Texas now monitoring dozens who may have had contact with the nurse. Casey Stegall and Alicia Acuna reporting. Dr Manny is calling for the resignation of the head of the CDC over the botched handling of Ebola.

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from FRANCE 24 English

Exclusive: ‘Turkey cannot give weapons to civilians’ to fight IS group
In an exclusive interview with FRANCE 24, Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu defended his government’s stance on the fight against the Islamic State group in neighbouring Syria, adding that airstrikes in the country were a “failure”.

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from Freedom Foundation (WA)

A Plague of Consequences
One painful consequence of electing politicians like Commissioners Cathy Wolfe, Sandra Romero, and Karen Valenzuela in Thurston County is that their poor management, bad decisions and impressive incompetence are destructive to public safety. Monday night's budget hearing was illustrative of the damage these three commissioners are inflicting with their policies.

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from The Heritage Foundation

Police Beefed Up Capabilities Because a Crime-Weary Nation Wanted Them To
The mid-summer clash between unarmed protesters and heavily armed police in Ferguson, Mo., sparked a renewed discussion on the militarization of domestic law enforcement.

Want an Economic Boost? Let’s Kill the Death Tax

Second US Ebola Patient Identified as Young Texas Nurse

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from Huffington Post
[Information from this site may be unreliable.]

Midterms and the Media's Double Standard for Disqualifying Candidates

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from iFIBER ONE News (WA)

Gang member serving nine months for assaulting corrections officer
A gang member is serving nine months in jail after hitting a corrections officer during a fight in the Grant County Jail. A Grant County jury convicted Marcos Avalos-Barrera, a 24-year-old man, in September of custodial assault and assault in the fourth.

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from The Independent (UK)
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from KXLY 4 News (ABC Spokane)

ISIS justifies its taking of sex slaves
Female members of Yazidi sect forcibly being made concubines

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from Money Talks News
from National Geographic

Stronger Earthquakes Predicted for Bay Area—and They Could Come Soon
A new study improves tremor forecasting of major northern California faults.

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from NBC News (& affiliates)
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New Orleans-based artist Ashley Longshore, 39, has become the go-to artist for the financial elite — creating cheeky portraits and pop art that unabashedly celebrate American consumerism.

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from New York Times

from Reuters

Read this to get a better understanding of how Ebola spreads
The term 'airborne' doesn't mean what you think it does.

UPDATE 12-Brent crude slides to lowest since 2010 on Saudi output signal
Kuwait's oil minister, Ali al-Omair, was quoted as saying by state news agency KUNA on Sunday that $76 to $77 a barrel might be the level that would end the oil price slide, since that was the cost of oil production in the United States and Russia.

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from The Right Scoop

Netanyahu hits back at UN Secretary General for saying “occupation” justified Hamas attacks on Israel

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from Right Wing News

Furious neighbors seek to rid themselves of Gwyneth Paltrow after fawning, elitist Obama fundraiser
There has been plenty of focus on actress Gwyneth Paltrow‘s embarrassing adulation of President Obama during a Friday fundraiser held at her Los Angeles home, but her neighbors were not nearly as enamored. Some want to kick the A-list actress out of the upscale neighborhood because of the event, which cost $1,000 to $32,000 per head. “Traffic stood still, children were stranded at school, residents could not leave their own driveways,” The New York Times reported. “That’s not the way life is supposed to be lived in Mandeville Canyon.”

Woman’s home ‘stolen’ by squatter who moved in & filed a deed with NYC – despite her family owning property since 1931

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from ScienceDaily

Nanoparticles can act like liquid on the outside, crystal on the inside
A surprising phenomenon has been found in metal nanoparticles: They appear, from the outside, to be liquid droplets, wobbling and readily changing shape, while their interiors retain a perfectly stable crystal configuration.

An end to needle phobia: Device could make painless injections possible
Imagine no tears during infant vaccines and no fear of the needle for those old enough to know what’s coming. Such painless injections could be possible with a device that applies pressure and vibration while the needle is inserted in the skin, according to a study.

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from Slate
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
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from Space.com (& CollectSpace)

Rosetta Spacecraft Spots 'Pyramid' Boulder on Comet

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from The Spokesman-Review

Then and Now: The Manito Park zoo

Idaho attorney general drops opposition to lifting stay on gay marriage, but Gov. Otter doesn’t

Bishops say gays have gifts to offer church

Federal judge strikes Alaska marriage ban
Ruling finds same-sex couples’ constitutional rights violated

Election 2014: Experience at issue in county treasurer race

Credit cards get tech upgrade
Banks and credit unions across the region are making the switch from magnetic swipe cards to the cards of the future – the safer kind with a microchip built in.

Dallas hospital worker tests positive for Ebola

Large mosaic discovered in ancient tomb in Greece
Archaeologists digging through a vast ancient tomb in Amphipolis in northern Greece have uncovered a floor mosaic that covers the whole area of a room seen as the antechamber to the main burial ground.

Fay reaches hurricane strength after soaking Bermuda

Wintry weather heading for Colorado

In brief: Putin calls troops away from Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered thousands of Russian troops near the Ukrainian border to return to their usual bases, according to his spokesman.
North Korea says it’s moving remains
North Korea says the remains of thousands of American soldiers killed during the Korean War are being moved due to construction projects and flood damage.
Bolivia’s Morales wins third term
Evo Morales easily won an unprecedented third term as Bolivia’s president Sunday on the strength of the economic and political stability the coca growers’ union leader has brought to the South American country.

Turkey OKs coalition’s use of bases in fight against militants
Turkey will let U.S. and coalition forces use its bases, including a key installation within 100 miles of the Syrian border, for operations against Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq, American defense officials said Sunday.  U.S. officials confirmed Saturday that Ankara had agreed to train Syrian moderate forces on Turkish soil. A Turkish government official said Sunday that Turkey put the number at 4,000 opposition fighters and said they would be screened by Turkish intelligence.

Kurds in Syria halt militants’ advance
Kurdish fighters have been able to halt the advance of the Islamic State extremist group in the Syrian border town of Kobani, where the U.S.-led coalition has been carrying out airstrikes for more than two weeks, activists said Sunday.

$2.7 billion in Gaza rebuilding aid pledged
International forum draws 50 nations

Missouri shooting protesters arrested
Officers arrested 17 protesters and used pepper spray to subdue some of them Sunday in a St. Louis neighborhood not far from the suburb where violence erupted this summer after the shooting of a black man by a white policeman.

Jimmy Carter, 90, campaigning again
Former president stumping for grandson in Georgia

In brief: Anti-bullying rally held after hazing
SAYREVILLE, N.J. – Hundreds of people came out Sunday evening for an anti-bullying rally in a central New Jersey town that’s been rocked by allegations of sex-related hazing involving its high school football team, which prompted the cancellation of the rest of the season.
1 dead, 20 injured in hayride crash
MECHANIC FALLS, Maine – A Halloween-themed hayride loaded with passengers crashed down a hill in the Maine woods and slammed into a tree, fatally injuring a teenage girl and leaving more than 20 other people hurt, police said Sunday.
Fallen firefighters added to memorial
EMMITSBURG, Md. – More than 100 names of firefighters who were killed in the line of duty have been added to the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial in Maryland. Among the 107 firefighters honored were 19 Arizona firefighters killed in a 2013 canyon fire and 10 first responders killed in a fertilizer plant explosion in Texas last year.

State estimates added cost of labor contracts
State officials estimate the cost of implementing labor contracts for Washington state employees and home care aides will add up to $583 million or more.

In brief: South Hill stabbing suspect located
Spokane police said Sunday they located the man suspected of stabbing a driver Saturday night and are working to sort out conflicting accounts of a confrontation that included two people being hit by a vehicle in the 2000 block of West Seventh Avenue.
Glacier Park breaks visitors record
Glacier National Park has broken its record for most visitors in a single year.
Small quake hits Puget Sound area
The U.S. Geological Survey said the magnitude-3.5 temblor struck Saturday shortly before midnight and was centered about 8 miles northeast of Olympia.

Liberian nurses plan strike over Ebola hazard pay
Liberian officials are pleading with nurses and physician assistants to show up to work today amid a dispute over hazard pay that has prompted calls for a strike in the middle of the Ebola epidemic.

Leonard Pitts Jr.: Rights deserve timely respect

Prevent slips, trips and falls for seniors

Not everyone passes funeral etiquette test

These seniors are young on their feet
Mary Ann Tripp, 87, has taught Exerdancing for Community Colleges of Spokane ACT 2 program since 1985.

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from The Wall Street Journal

Top General Worries U.S. Army Getting Too Small
The Army’s top general, Ray Odierno, the chief of staff of the Army, said Monday that 490,000 may be too small, given recent events such as the rise of militants fighting for Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, and Moscow’s moves in Eastern Europe.

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from The Washington Examiner (DC)
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from Yahoo News

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