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from CBC News (Canada)
Christian woman acquitted of blasphemy in Pakistan arrives in Canada
A lawyer representing a Christian woman acquitted of blasphemy after she spent eight years on death row in Pakistan says she has arrived in Canada. Pakistani officials and others involved in the case said Wednesday that Asia Bibi had left Pakistan to be reunited with her daughters in Canada, where they had been granted asylum. Her lawyer, Saif-ul Malook, said she had already arrived in Canada. Bibi was convicted of blasphemy in 2009 after a quarrel with a fellow farmworker. Pakistan's Supreme Court overturned her conviction last year and she had been in protective custody since then.
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from HumanProgress.org Education Website
How Anti-Humanism Is Gaining Ground
“We must act now [by] having fewer children” to prevent environmental catastrophe, including the extinction of millions of species. That’s according to a recent CNN segment on the newly released report of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. To emphasize the supposed link between population growth and a planetary disaster, CNN interviewed the Stanford University biologist and author of the 1968 bestselling book, The Population Bomb, Paul Ehrlich. Ehrlich, who has been warning of a link between overpopulation and a series of environmental catastrophes for over five decades, has previously stated that Earth can only sustain 500 million people. There are currently over 7.7 billion people on the planet. Surely there are better ways to deal with environmental problems than reducing the human race by 94 percent. Alas, in spite of Ehrlich’s long record of failed predictions, more and more people are embracing his anti-humanist agenda.
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from Idaho State Journal
Newspaper in Pocatello, Idaho
World's biggest steam locomotive headed to region
It’s longer than two city buses, weighs more than a Boeing 747 fully loaded with passengers and can pull 16 Statues of Liberty over a mountain. The Big Boy No. 4014 steam locomotive, the world’s largest steam engine by length, rolled out of a Union Pacific restoration shop in Cheyenne over the weekend for a big debut after five years of restoration. It then headed toward Utah as part of a yearlong tour to commemorate the Transcontinental Railroad’s 150th anniversary. Big Boys hauled freight between Wyoming and Utah in the 1940s and 1950s. Of the 25 built by the American Locomotive Company in Schenectady, New York, from 1941 to 1944, eight remain. Only No. 4014 will be operational.
World's biggest steam locomotive headed to region
It’s longer than two city buses, weighs more than a Boeing 747 fully loaded with passengers and can pull 16 Statues of Liberty over a mountain. The Big Boy No. 4014 steam locomotive, the world’s largest steam engine by length, rolled out of a Union Pacific restoration shop in Cheyenne over the weekend for a big debut after five years of restoration. It then headed toward Utah as part of a yearlong tour to commemorate the Transcontinental Railroad’s 150th anniversary. Big Boys hauled freight between Wyoming and Utah in the 1940s and 1950s. Of the 25 built by the American Locomotive Company in Schenectady, New York, from 1941 to 1944, eight remain. Only No. 4014 will be operational.
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from The Living Church
Magazine of The Living Church Foundation (Anglican)
By Sarah McCullough Cornwell: This is the third post in a series in which I explore what classic film actresses in iconic roles can teach us — and, more particularly, my fast-growing daughter — about the seven classic virtues. These posts follow the order of the virtues that Dante encounters in his journey up through Purgatorio. The first post was on humility and Ingrid Bergman’s character in Casablanca. The second was “Jean Arthur and Virtue of Kindness.” This post focuses on the virtue of meekness as a countermeasure to wrath, the third vice that Dante encounters in Purgatorio. Donna Reed provides an excellent example of meekness in It’s a Wonderful Life and, like the other women I have written about, beautifully demonstrates how a virtue that can often be characterized as a weakness is in fact far stronger than the vice it opposes.
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(& CNSNews.com & NewsBusters) RIGHT BIAS, MIXED
nonprofit media watchdog for politically conservative content analysis based in Reston, Virginia
Almost 10 years after the death of Democrat Senator Edward "Ted" Kennedy of Massachusetts, and 50 years after the death of Mary Jo Kopechne -- and almost two years after a major Hollywood film on the incident -- the media are starting to finally reveal the truth about what happened at Chappaquiddick.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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The 150th Anniversary of the Transcontinental Railroad: Photographing the West
As westward expansion was taking place on many fronts, the still-nascent technology of photography helped bring the West’s fabled landscapes, impossible-sounding stories, and regional discoveries to life for most Americans. Indeed, these early photographs influenced not just the politics and ideas of the day, but ultimately the business of development. The following excerpts from Carleton Watkins: Making the West American by Tyler Green, and Iron Muse: Photographing the Transcontinental Railroad by Glenn Willumson, both demonstrate the complex artistry and purpose behind creating these historic images.
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from University of California Press
As westward expansion was taking place on many fronts, the still-nascent technology of photography helped bring the West’s fabled landscapes, impossible-sounding stories, and regional discoveries to life for most Americans. Indeed, these early photographs influenced not just the politics and ideas of the day, but ultimately the business of development. The following excerpts from Carleton Watkins: Making the West American by Tyler Green, and Iron Muse: Photographing the Transcontinental Railroad by Glenn Willumson, both demonstrate the complex artistry and purpose behind creating these historic images.
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