Friday, April 19, 2019

In the news, Wednesday, April 10, 2019


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from The Argus Observer
Newspaper in Onterio, Oregon 

The long-awaited public ceremony to rename Payette’s post office in honor of baseball great Harmon Killebrew is set for 1 p.m. Friday at the post office, 915 Center Ave.

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from Atlas Obscura

They burned real fuel and caused real damage.
IN LITTLE MEN, THE SEQUEL to Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, the once-tomboyish Jo gives a miniature kitchen to her niece Daisy. The centerpiece was a real iron stove capable of cooking “for a large family of very hungry dolls.” But the best of it, writes Alcott, “was that a real fire burned in it, real steam came out of the nose of the little tea-kettle, and the lid of the little boiler actually danced a jig, the water inside bubbled so hard.”

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from Financial Times
LEAST BIASED, HIGH, business and economic newspaper in London, UK

Microsoft worked with Chinese military university on artificial intelligence
Microsoft has worked with a Chinese military-run university on artificial intelligence research that could be used for surveillance and censorship, a revelation that has sparked anger among China hawks on Capitol Hill.

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from Global News (Canada)

A fire destroyed a historic church in the Roseneath area on Tuesday night, the third major suspicious fire in the community in the past three weeks. The Office of the Ontario Fire Marshal has been called to Church Road to investigate an overnight blaze which destroyed the St. James Anglican Church — an active building which was erected in 1863 about 1.5 kilometres north of the village of Roseneath. The area is about 50 kilometres south of Peterborough.

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from The Heritage Foundation
RIGHT BIAS,  MIXED  American conservative think tank based in Washington, D.C.

Building a Coalition of the Willing to Address Human Rights Violations in Xinjiang
Since early 2017, Chinese authorities detained between 800,000 to 1.2 million primarily Uighurs in political “reeducation” facilities. Turkey became the first, and so far the only, Muslim-majority country to issue a formal statement condemning Beijing for its egregious treatment of the Uighurs. China wants to nip these embarrassing objections in the bud, and so it is threatening retaliation against Turkey, a longtime friend.

Haven’t We Learned Our School Spending Lesson?
More than 50 years ago, the big question when it came to schools was “Should the federal government have any role in financing education?" The burden of proof shouldn’t be on the White House to defend these cuts. Proponents should explain why spending levels should stay the same. When good money has been thrown after bad for years, if not decades, you have to ask yourself whether the programs you’re funding even work.

National School Lunch Program Must be Reserved for Students in Need
What started as a grant program to help poor students has morphed into a massive entitlement offering meals to 30 million students every year, 55% of all students. President Trump’s 2020 budget proposal would put an end to this practice of grouping schools together. The 2010 Community Eligibility Provision runs contrary to the purpose of the school lunch program and should be eliminated entirely.

Heritage Expert: Bill Would Upend the Health Care System, Worsening Access
Today, Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced a bill that would radically change our nation’s health care system, putting the government in charge of Americans’ health care decision making. The Heritage Foundation’s senior fellow Robert Moffit offered the following response: “This legislation would exacerbate the problems our health care system already faces and make patient choice irrelevant in health care. Whether you like it or not, the government will decide what kind of care you’ll receive, and there will be no alternatives.”

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from The Inlander
Media/News Company in Spokane, WA

Natural gas vulnerabilities questioned after pipeline explosion spiked winter prices in PNW
This winter, an unusual thing happened in the Pacific Northwest. It’s typical to see temperatures drop into the single digits or lower during the coldest part of the season, but despite the fact that natural gas provides much of the home-heating in the region, the fuel doesn’t usually spike in price for very long. But after an explosion in October on part of the Enbridge pipeline, which carries much of the region’s natural gas from northern British Columbia down the Interstate 5 corridor and beyond, gas supplies to the PNW were curtailed. When the demand was high with lower supply, prices on the market surged.

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from New York Post  Newspaper in New York

Dems gave $27M to children of illegal immigrants – not vets
Democrats set aside $27 million in tuition assistance for the children of undocumented immigrants in the new state budget — but wouldn’t add hundreds of thousands of dollars to expand a similar program for kids of deceased and disabled veterans.


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from Psephizo  Blog

Is Richard Rohr’s ‘Universal Christ’ Christian?
Richard Rohr appears to articulate deeply felt questions—but does he offer any convincing answers? Richard Rohr is a well-known and popular teacher, and his books are regularly best-sellers. Despite that, he is something of a ‘Marmite’ theologian—people either adore or loathe him. Depending on which side you come down on, you will either find his latest book, The Universal Christ (London: SPCK, 2019) a scintillating and energetic tour de force of broad-brush theology, or an irritating, simplistic and infuriatingly inaccurate repetitive jumble of ideas. 

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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

Spokane Valley Heritage Museum exhibit will celebrate legacy of Spokane aviation hero Nick Mamer
The Spokane Valley Heritage Museum is planning a notable exhibit in July featuring documents and photos from the late Spokane aviator Nick Mamer. Spokane Valley Heritage Museum Director Jayne Singleton met with Mamer’s granddaughter, Georgia Fariss, last week. Fariss, along with her brothers, Steve and David Lee, agreed to donate an extensive collection of photos and documents unseen by the public and preserved by the family as far back as 1914.

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from UPI News Agency (United Press International)
Media/News Company

State Dept. approves $1.1B sale of SM-3 anti-ballistic missiles to Japan
The State Department approved the sale of anti-ballistic missiles to Japan, pending Congressional approval, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency announced. The sale, announced Tuesday, includes up to 56 SM-3 Block IB interceptor missiles, with missile canisters, technical assistance and support at an estimated cost of $1.150 billion. Raytheon Missile Systems, of Tucson, Ariz., would be the prime contractor of the missiles, with BAE Systems of Minneapolis, Minn., designated as contractor on the missile canisters. The missiles, designed to seek and destroy incoming short- to intermediate-range ballistic missiles, feature infrared seekers and an upgraded steering and propulsion capability that directs the missile toward incoming targets, according to Raytheon. The system is regarded as an essential component of the anti-missile system the United States is building in and around Europe.

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from US National Archives

An Explosive Story: Hoover and the Sinai Peninsula Turquoise Mine
As part of an ongoing exploration of Herbert and Lou Hoover’s connection with the Rosetta Stone exhibit, this blog post examines Herbert Hoover’s brief efforts to revive a turquoise mine in the Sinai Peninsula.  The episode placed Hoover at odds with the noted Egyptologist, Flinders Petrie.


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