Monday, June 3, 2013

In the news, Sunday, June 2, 2013








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SAT 01      INDEX      MON 03
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from The Jerusalem Post


Existential travails
A blind eye is willfully turned to the lethal stockpiles amassed against Israel while simultaneously unconscionable efforts are intensified to tarnish Israel, ostracize it and turn it into a global pariah.By JPOST EDITORIAL

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from KIRO 7 Eyewitness News


Jean Stapleton, TV's Edith Bunker, dies at 90
By LYNN ELBER      The Associated Press

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from Fox News


Jean Stapleton, 'All in the Family' Actress, Dies at 90
By Fox News Insider

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from The Washington Post


IRS training videos spoof ‘Star Trek,’ ‘Gilligan’s Island’ and ‘Cupid Shuffle’
By Ed O'Keefe

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from POLITICO


Judge: Google must give FBI user information
By ASSOCIATED PRESS

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from NPR


No 'Universal' Best Practice To Save Yourself From Tornadoes
by NPR STAFF

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from The Spokesman-Review



State Parks centennial celebration Saturday at Riverside Park
The Discover Pass requirement for vehicles will be waived for the day. Food vendors will be on site.

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Libraries, publishers struggling to get on same digital page
Adrian Rogers      The Spokesman-Review

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Review: Retooling of Windows 8 turns back the clock
Janet I. Tu      Seattle Times

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3 veteran storm chasers killed by Oklahoma tornado
Associated Press

Storm drones make sci-fi vision reality
Researchers hope to predict tornado formation
Justin Juozapavicius      Associated Press

At least nine die in latest round of violent weather in Oklahoma

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Plant may lack space for Hanford waste
Annette Cary      Tri-City Herald

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Feds fine Seattle-based American Seafoods $2.7 million

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Valley police incident deadly
Wanted man shot during confrontation
Kaitlin Gillespie      The Spokesman-Review

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Antibiotics in livestock raising concerns
Growing use may be creating ‘superbugs’
Monica Eng      Chicago Tribune

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‘Family’ TV wife Stapleton dies at 90
Claudia Luther      Los Angeles Times

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Protests in Istanbul erupt into violence
Thousands gather in central square
Suzan Fraser      Associated Press

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In brief:  From Wire Reports:

Evangelical Lutherans elect first openly gay, Native American bishop

Los Angeles – The Evangelical Lutheran Church of America elected its first openly gay bishop to a six-year term on Friday at an annual assembly in Southern California, officials said.

The election of the Rev. R. Guy Erwin comes after the church’s controversial rule change in 2009 that allowed gays and lesbians to be ordained in the nation’s largest Lutheran denomination. More than 600 congregations have left the denomination since the change.

Erwin, a resident of the Woodland Hills area of Los Angeles, currently serves as a pastor at Faith Lutheran Church and a professor of Lutheran Confessional Theology at California Lutheran University.

Ordained in May 2011, Erwin said he waited years for the recognition, and he brings a “deep faith in Christ’s presence in his church lived out in 20 years of parish experience blended with university and seminary-level teaching.”

Officials say the “partnered gay man” is also the first Native American to be elected. Erwin is part Osage Indian.

The ELCA has more than 4 million members in 9,638 congregations across the United States, Caribbean and U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Thousands rally across Europe
Austerity steps met with huge protests
Harold Heckle      Associated Press

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Rockets from Syria land in Lebanon
Attack on Hezbollah apparent retaliation for supporting Assad
Karin Laub      Associated Press

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Virus sickens three in Italy
Associated Press

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Bradley Manning trial starts Monday
Private sent classified documents to WikiLeaks
Michael Doyle      McClatchy-Tribune

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Illinois governor backs Great Lakes-river split
John Flesher      Associated Press

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Fires force evacuations in N.M., Calif.
Associated Press

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Ricin threat increase is unsurprising
‘Perfect poison’ easy to get, weaponize
Holbrook Mohr      Associated Press

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Sarah Palin speaks at Republic High School graduation
Kip Hill      The Spokesman-Review

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Inslee order aims to spur hiring of people with disabilities
(Centralia, Wash.) Chronicle


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Spin Control: Budget impasse doesn’t spell doom
Jim Camden      The Spokesman-Review

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opinion:

Editorial: School vote a good sign for diversity of thinking

Men: What are they good for?
Kathleen Parker

Smart Bombs: Welcome to press freedom
Gary Crooks      The Spokesman-Review

State starts on path to employ graduates
Candis Claiborn

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Burned cub returned to the wild

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Idaho state hospital installs headstones
Hundreds without formal burial sites

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Really, what’s wrong with an 18-game NFL schedule?
Tim Cowlishaw      The Dallas Morning News

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Men with Spokane ties targeted Mount Everest
Rich Landers      The Spokesman-Review

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In the Garden: Friends of Manito ready to help you spring forward
Susan Mulvihill      The Spokesman-Review

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Noguchi lamps have become modern home classics
Beth J. Harpaz      Associated Press

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Spotlight: Waldman installation shows ‘Why We Live Here’
Also:  Veteran character actor Jerry Hardin is coming to town to do his one-man Mark Twain show, “On Man and his World.”
Carolyn Lamberson      The Spokesman-Review

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MLPs retain popularity for the right reasons
Jonathan Fahey      Associated Press

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BBB Tip of the Week: Solar panels

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from The Wenatchee World


to be added


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June 2 in history


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455 – Sack of Rome: Vandals enter Rome, and plunder the city for two weeks.

1010 – The Battle of Aqbat al-Bakr took place in the context of the Fitna of al-Andalus resulting in a defeat for the Caliphate of Cordoba.

1098 – First Crusade: The first Siege of Antioch ends as Crusader forces take the city. The second siege would later start on June 7.

1615 – The first Récollet missionaries arrive at Quebec City, from Rouen, France.

1676 – Franco-Dutch War: France ensured the supremacy of its naval fleet for the remainder of the war with its victory in the Battle of Palermo.

1692 – Bridget Bishop is the first person to go to trial in the Salem witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts. Found guilty, she is hanged on June 10.

1763 – Pontiac's Rebellion: At what is now Mackinaw City, Michigan, Chippewas capture Fort Michilimackinac by diverting the garrison's attention with a game of lacrosse, then chasing a ball into the fort.

1774 – Intolerable Acts: The Quartering Act is enacted, allowing a governor in colonial America to house British soldiers in uninhabited houses, outhouses, barns, or other buildings if suitable quarters are not provided.

1784 – With the Revolutionary War won, the Continental Congress - under the Articles of Confederation - disbanded the Continental Army.

1793 – French Revolution: François Hanriot, leader of the Parisian National Guard, arrests 22 Girondists selected by Jean-Paul Marat, setting the stage for the Reign of Terror.

1805 – Napoleonic Wars: A Franco-Spanish fleet recaptures Diamond Rock, an uninhabited island at the entrance to the bay leading to Fort-de-France, from the British.

1835 – P. T. Barnum and his circus start their first tour of the United States.

1848 – The Slavic congress in Prague begins.

1851 – Maine enacts the first alcohol prohibition law in the U.S.

1855 – The Portland Rum Riot occurs in Portland, Maine.

1863 – During the Civil War, Union Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman wrote a letter to his wife, Ellen, in which he commented, “Vox populi, vox humbug” (The voice of the people is the voice of humbug).

1863 – Abolitionist Harriet Tubman leads Union forces into Maryland, helping to free slaves.

1866 – Fenian raids: The Fenians are victorious over Canadian forces in both the Battle of Ridgeway and the Battle of Fort Erie.

1886 – The U.S. President Grover Cleveland marries Frances Folsom in the White House, becoming the only president to wed in the executive mansion.

1896 – Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his newest invention, the radio.

1909 – Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.

1910 – Charles Rolls, a co-founder of Rolls-Royce Limited, becomes the first man to make a non-stop double crossing of the English Channel by plane.

1919 – Anarchists simultaneously set off bombs in eight separate U.S. cities.

1924 – The U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.

1935 – Legendary baseball player Babe Ruth retired after playing twenty-two seasons.

1941 – World War II: German paratoopers murder Greek civilians in the village of Kondomari.

1946 – Birth of the Italian Republic: In a referendum, Italians vote to turn Italy from a monarchy into a Republic. After the referendum, King Umberto II of Italy is exiled.

1953 – The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, who is crowned Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Her Other Realms and Territories & Head of the Commonwealth took place in London’s Westminster Abbey, 16 months after the death of her father, King George VI, the first major international event to be broadcast on television.

1955 – The USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade declaration and thus normalize relations between both countries, discontinued since 1948.

1962 – During the 1962 FIFA World Cup, police had to intervene multiple times in fights between Chilean and Italian players in one of the most violent games in football history.

1966 – Surveyor program: Surveyor 1 landed in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon, becoming the first U.S. spacecraft to soft-land on another world, and began transmitting detailed photographs of the lunar surface.

1967 – Luis Monge is executed in Colorado's gas chamber, in the last pre-Furman execution in the United States.

1967 – Protests in West Berlin against the arrival of the Shah of Iran turn into riots, during which Benno Ohnesorg is killed by a police officer. His death results in the founding of the terrorist group Movement 2 June.

1979 – Pope John Paul II starts his first official visit to his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country.

1983 – After an emergency landing because of an in-flight fire, twenty-three passengers aboard Air Canada Flight 797 are killed when a flashover occurs as the plane's doors open. Because of this incident, numerous new safety regulations are put in place.

1990 – The Lower Ohio Valley tornado outbreak spawns 66 confirmed tornadoes in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio, killing 12. Petersburg, Indiana, is the hardest-hit town in the outbreak, with six deaths.

1995 – United States Air Force Captain Scott O'Grady's F-16 is shot down over Bosnia while patrolling the NATO no-fly zone.

1997 – In Denver, Colorado, Timothy McVeigh is convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He was executed four years later.

1999 – The Bhutan Broadcasting Service brings television transmissions to the Kingdom for the first time.

2003 – Europe launches its first voyage to another planet. The European Space Agency's Mars Express probe launches from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan.

2004 – Ken Jennings begins his 74-game winning streak on the syndicated game show Jeopardy!

2012 – The former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in the killing of demonstrators during the 2011 Egyptian revolution.

2012 – An Allied Air cargo plane crashes into a minibus after overshooting the runway at Accra's Kotoka International Airport in Ghana killing at least twelve people.

2014 – Telangana officially becomes the 29th state of India.



Saints' Days and Holy Days

Traditional Western

Octave of St. Augustine of Canterbury.     Double.
Commemoration of SS. Marcellinus, Peter, and Elmo, Martyrs.     [or Simple.]


Contemporary Western



Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran



Eastern Orthodox


Saints

Saint Nicephorus the Confessor, Patriarch of Constantinople (829)
Great martyr John the New of Suceava, who suffered at Belgrade (1340)
Martyr Demetrius of Philadelphia (1657)
Hieromartyr Photinus, Bishop of Lyon
Martyr Constantine of the Hagarenes from Mount Athos
Hieromartyr Erasmus of Ochrid and 8,000 martyrs with him
Martyr John of Trebizond

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In the news, Saturday, June 1, 2013


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from Breitbart

THE GROUNDING OF BIG GOVERNMENT

COLLEGE KIDS SIGN CARD THANKING IRS FOR TARGETING CONSERVATIVES



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from Daily Mail

An emotional farewell: Police officers salute K-9 as he goes on his 'final journey'
Kaiser, a German Shepard serving in the Massachusetts Police Department K-9 unit, was put down after a battle with kidney disease
Heart-wrenching pictures that swept the Internet show the dog being given an emotional farewell salute by fellow police officers

Tricked into parenthood: How men are SABOTAGING women's birth control in a bid to 'leave a legacy'

The age where you could WALK from New York to Morocco! How countries of today would look 300 MILLION years ago

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from First Things

GOD, GODS, AND FAIRIES
One of the strangest claims often made by purveyors and consumers of today’s popular atheism is that disbelief in God involves no particular positive philosophy of reality, much less any kind of religion or creed, but consists merely in neutral incredulity toward a certain kind of factual asseveration. This is not something the atheists of earlier ages would have been very likely to say, if only because they still lived in a culture whose every dimension (artistic, philosophical, ethical, social, cosmological) was shaped by a religious vision of the world. More to the point, it is an utterly nonsensical claim—so nonsensical, in fact, that it is doubtful that those who make it can truly be considered atheists in any coherent sense.



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from Fox News

At least nine dead after deadly tornadoes hit Oklahoma City region

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from The Jerusalem Post

Turkish PM Erdogan calls for end to protests
Police attempt to relieve tensions after two days of clashes Erdogan acknowledges mistakes in tear gas use against protesters.
Anti-government protesters chant "unite against fascism" and "government resign," in Istanbul a day after hundreds hurt in violent protests; activists call for similar demonstrations in more than a dozen cities.

Behind the Lines: At the edge of the abyss
Lebanon is moving ever closer to being swept into the Syrian civil war amid cross-border fire, rebel response to increasingly overt engagement of Hezbollah militants in fighting.

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from KHQ Local News

Fatal Deputy-Involved Shooting In Spokane Valley

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from KREM 2 News

5 dead in tornado in Oklahoma City area, 50 hurt

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from KXLY 4 News

State cashing in on liquor sales



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from Money Talks News

The Most Stressful Jobs of 2013
A career site has produced a list of the most stressful jobs in America, based on a number of factors like danger, deadlines and how much you're in the public eye. Did your occupation qualify?

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from NPR

Court Prepares To Write New Chapters In Civil Rights History

Haters Gonna Hate, As Shown On A Map

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from POLITICO

Ted Cruz: DOJ case ‘without precedent’

Mitch McConnell recorder explains bugging

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from REALfarmacy

Top 10 Most Unhealthy, Cancer-Causing Foods
note: Some of this information needs verification. - C. S.

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from The Spokesman-Review

Deputies shoot man to death in Spokane Valley

Medicare gets small respite
Government calculates health program’s main fund will stay solvent until 2026

Oklahoma capital hit by severe weather
Five killed when tornadoes rip through suburbs

Idaho agencies scramble to reward workers
State falling further behind in pay for public employees

Four Houston firefighters killed in blaze
Crew were searching for people believed trapped in motel

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In brief:  From Staff and Wire Reports:

Arena dropping Bon Jovi from name

Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena managers decided late Thursday evening to drop a publicity stunt announced Thursday morning.

After arena managers announced that they were temporarily changing its name to the Bon Jovi Veterans Arena, local veterans and community members criticized the decision on social media.

“We didn’t really expect people to react the way they did,” arena General Manager Matt Gibson said Friday.

Gibson said in the original announcement that the renaming was intended to show “Because We Can” tour promoters that Spokane was serious about hosting the rock band. Big names like Bon Jovi rarely come to Spokane, so booking the concert was a huge accomplishment, he said.

“It wasn’t meant to be anything other than a goofy promotional stunt for the concert,” Gibson said Friday.

Bon Jovi will play in Spokane on Oct. 6.


American woman cleared, released

PHOENIX – The weeklong detention of an American woman after Mexican authorities said they found 12 pounds of marijuana under her bus seat illustrates just one of the perils Americans face while traveling south of the border.

Yanira Maldonado, 42, walked out of a prison on the outskirts of Nogales, Mexico, and into her husband’s arms late Thursday after a judge dismissed drug-smuggling charges against her.

The judge determined Maldonado was no longer a suspect after viewing video that showed the couple climbing on the bus with just a purse, blankets and bottles of water.

After returning to the Phoenix area Friday, Maldonado said, “I got strength through my faith and said, ‘I’m going to be out,’ and I got out.”

The governor of the Mexican state of Sonora, where Nogales is located, apologized for Maldonado’s ordeal during a visit to Phoenix on Friday. He said he made sure she was safe and wasn’t transferred to a federal prison and worked to ensure the court proceedings went quickly.


Japan pledges aid to build Africa ties

YOKOHAMA, Japan – Japan is wooing African nations, promising $32 billion as government and private-sector aid to foster growth in a region that is increasingly an appealing market and business partner.

The package for the next five years, including $14 billion in government aid called ODA, or official development assistance, was announced at a three-day conference in Yokohama, near Tokyo, opening today.

Japan is eager to catch up with neighboring Asian rival China, which has a big head start in courting Africa, investing heavily in infrastructure projects.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who took office late last year, is bullish about investing in and exporting to Africa.

He is holding meetings with officials from African nations, including Zimbabwe, Sudan and Kenya.


China hints it may join free-trade pact

WASHINGTON – Since the U.S. and other nations began talks on an Asia-Pacific free-trade pact, Chinese officials had pretty much looked at the deal with suspicion, as another attempt to contain China’s rise in the world.

Now, however, Beijing is giving a wholly different signal: a willingness to join the U.S.-led negotiations.

“We will analyze the advantages, disadvantages and the possibility of joining the TPP,” said Ministry of Commerce spokesman Shen Danyang, referring to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, at a briefing Thursday.

The TPP talks already involve 11 countries, including Australia, Vietnam, Canada and Mexico. And with Japan soon to join, those at the negotiating table would represent close to two-fifths of the world economy.

The Obama administration sees the TPP as more than an agreement that would remove tariffs in the fast-growing Pacific region. It is meant also to set standards and address critical regionwide issues on regulations, supply chains and state-owned enterprises. All of which would presumably help President Barack Obama’s broader goal of boosting American exports as well as strengthening Washington’s influence in the Asia-Pacific region.


U.S. withholding aid to Syrian rebels

WASHINGTON – The United States is withholding $63 million that it had pledged to the main Syrian opposition organization because the Obama administration is frustrated with the group’s disarray and is searching for more credible partners to support in the rebellion against Syrian President Bashar Assad, knowledgeable officials said Friday.

The decision not to fund the Syrian Opposition Coalition contrasts sharply with the Obama administration’s continued public expressions of confidence in the group, which has been central to U.S. policy on Syria since last fall and which the administration recognizes as the representative of the Syrian people.

But U.S. officials said privately that they are fed up with the group’s inability to organize, appoint a government-in-exile or reach decisions on a wide range of issues. The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity so as to more freely discuss sensitive diplomacy.

Officials insisted the plan wasn’t to give up on the coalition. But they said Secretary of State John Kerry was mulling greater support of rival opposition factions such as the rebels’ military command and grass-roots civil society organizations inside Syria.

State Department officials also said they were incensed at the coalition’s announcement Friday that it wouldn’t attend U.S.-Russian sponsored peace talks in Geneva. The coalition blamed its refusal to attend on the “invasion of Syria” by Iran and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.

Assad suggested in a Lebanese television interview Thursday that he might personally attend.


Starbucks expands no-smoking policy

NEW YORK – Starbucks customers will soon have to stamp out their cigarettes before approaching the cafes.

The Seattle-based chain says it will start banning smoking within 25 feet of its stores beginning today. A Starbucks spokeswoman said the intent is to expand the indoor no-smoking policy to the outdoor seating areas.

The rule will apply to the 7,000 cafes owned and operated by Starbucks Corp., regardless of whether they have outdoor seating areas.


Jobless rate at new high across European Union

BRUSSELS – Unemployment across the 17 European Union countries that use the euro has hit another record high, the latest in a series of ignominious landmarks for the ailing single-currency zone.

Eurostat, the EU’s statistics office, said Friday that unemployment rose to 12.2 percent in April from the previous record of 12.1 percent the month before. Another 95,000 people joined the ranks of the unemployed, taking the total to 19.38 million.

The figures mask big disparities among countries. While more than one in four people are unemployed in Greece and Spain, Germany’s rate is at 5.4 percent.


Test wheat from U.S., EU advises members

BERLIN – The European Union is urging its 27 member states to test wheat shipments from the United States after unauthorized genetically modified grains were found in Oregon.

Tokyo on Thursday halted imports of certain types of wheat from the U.S. following the discovery of an experimental strain that was tested by Monsanto but never approved.

The European Union imports more than 1.1 million tons of U.S. wheat each year, mostly to Spain.


Advisory panel worried about Fed policies

WASHINGTON – Some members of a Federal Reserve banking advisory committee expressed concerns this month that the Fed’s low interest-rate policies could be creating an “unsustainable bubble” in stock and bond markets.

The discussion among members of the banking advisory group and officials at the Federal Reserve showed the advisory panel believed that the Fed’s policies have provided support for a slow economic recovery. But some advisory members worry that the policies may also lead to higher inflation or market instability.

The group is made up of private bankers from each of the Fed’s 12 banking districts.


FBI confirms ricin in letter to Fairchild

The deadly poison ricin was present in a letter sent from Spokane to Fairchild Air Force Base last month, the FBI confirmed Friday.

Four other letters are believed to have been addressed in the same manner and sent at the same time to a federal judge, a post office, President Barack Obama and the Central Intelligence Agency. Two were intercepted by postal inspectors at the downtown Spokane post office on May 14.

Ricin had been previously confirmed in three of the letters. The one addressed to the CIA has not been recovered, FBI spokeswoman Ayn Sandalo Dietrich said. No one has been hurt by the letters.

The investigation is ongoing, Sandalo Dietrich said.

A Spokane man is in custody on a charge of making death threats in one of the letters, addressed to U.S. District Court Judge Fred Van Sickle. Matthew Buquet, 38, was arrested May 22.


ACLU: Wolfinger misinterpreted law

The Idaho ACLU charged Friday that Kootenai County Sheriff Ben Wolfinger misinterpreted the law when he said sodomy was unlawful in Idaho, as part of his concerns about continuing a charter for a Boy Scout troop chartered by the sheriff’s department.

The organization said the U.S. Supreme Court in 2003 invalidated criminal statutes that regulate sexual activity among consenting adults.

Wolfinger said Thursday that he hadn’t decided whether to continue to charter the troop. His concern stemmed from the national organization’s decision to permit gay youth to join Scout troops.

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Ariz. mom not giving up on Mexico, despite arrest

Shipping lanes set up to save whales
New passageways account for the marine mammals

Marijuana’s THC aids brain-damaged mice

Boeing engineering jobs trimmed in Puget Sound
Some positions moving to California; S. Carolina, Ukraine centers planned

Liquor sales, prices up
Rise is good news for state, local budgets

Irish ambassador disputes tax haven claim
Senators say Apple Inc. receives special, extra-low corporate rate

Consumers reporting optimistic outlook
Index at highest level since July 2007

Vestal: ‘Tax hike’ hyperbole doesn’t stand up to scrutiny

Library director begins new chapter
New York native Chanse looks forward to job, area

Man admits to grisly killing
Co-defendant sentenced to 13 years

Divers extracting sunken I-5 bridge
Train service offers alternative to snarl

Oregon coal port gets initial permits
Trains would unload onto barges at Boardman

Hole found in I-84 span near Hood River

Labrador’s chief of staff latest to leave

Editorial: U.S. border crossing fee a severely flawed idea

Ending child marriage not U.S. business
Froma Harrop

Under Obama, war rising as America recedes
Charles Krauthammer

Ideas for more effective math instruction
George K. Brown

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letter:

Bridge to a better economy

News reports say an oversized truck was the likely cause of the Interstate 5 bridge collapse. But I can tell you, as a former highway engineering technician, there is absolutely no reason why a truck smacking into that bridge should have brought it down. The core cause of this disaster and many others is the criminal neglect of our nation’s infrastructure.

The frustrating part is that if we committed to rebuilding and adequately maintaining our infrastructure, far fewer people would be out of work. Increased efficiency would save the government billions. And the boost to the economy would increase revenues enough to negate any need for tax increases.

It’s a no-brainer folks, and could literally save your life.

Devin Barber
Spokane

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letter:

Scandals are a symptom

Amid all these ongoing scandals we see the Obama administration involved with (Benghazi, Internal Revenue Service targeting conservative groups, Associated Press communications tapped) we can extrapolate one of two things: Either they are 100 percent naive and don’t know what they are doing; or they are 100 percent corrupt and are completely in control of all of what is happening. Either way, they have no business running this country.

The problem we have is that too many American voters think it’s OK to prosper from other people’s hard work. They want the easy way out, so they vote for Democrats. As long as politicians can use the IRS to forcibly confiscate our earnings and use them to pay others to vote for them, we will continue down this path of irresponsibility and corruption. America needs desperately to rein in government control of all our lives before it’s too late and we lose what freedoms we have left.

The problem is those who think as I do are targeted because those who want big government are afraid of what we believe, and need to quash it. They are not above using intimidation and fear to achieve this. When is enough, enough? Who should be held accountable?

Rob Leach
Mica

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The earthly good aspect of salvation overlooked
Paul Graves

Court upholds sentence in ’10 Bayview rampage

Commentary: These guys are running college sports?

Captain’s fond farewell
Salvation Army of Spokane to honor Smith’s five years of service
Pia Hallenberg      The Spokesman-Review

Exercise may cause kneecap pain
Anthony L. Komaroff

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June 1 in history



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193 – The Roman Emperor Didius Julianus is assassinated.

1215 – Zhongdu (now Beijing), then under the control of the Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending the Battle of Zhongdu.

1252 – Alfonso X is elected King of Castile and León.

1298 – Residents of Riga and Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeated the Livonian Order in the Battle of Turaida.

1495 – A Tironensian monk, John Cor, the distiller at Lindores Abbey in the Kingdom of Fife, is referred to in the first known written reference to a batch of Scotch whisky.

1533 – Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII, is crowned Queen Consort of England.

1535 – Combined forces loyal to Charles V attack and expel the Ottomans from Tunis during the Conquest of Tunis.

1648 – The Roundheads defeat the Cavaliers at the Battle of Maidstone in the Second English Civil War.

1649 – Start of the Sumuroy Revolt: Filipinos in Northern Samar led by Agustin Sumuroy revolt against Spanish colonial authorities.

1660 – Mary Dyer is hanged for defying a law banning Quakers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

1670 – In Dover, England, Charles II of Great Britain and Louis XIV of France sign the secret treaty of Dover, which will force England into the Third Anglo-Dutch War.

1679 – The Scottish Covenanters defeat John Graham of Claverhouse at the Battle of Drumclog.

1779 – Benedict Arnold, a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, is court-martialed for malfeasance.

1792 – Kentucky is admitted as the 15th state of the United States.

1794 – The battle of the Glorious First of June is fought, the first naval engagement between Britain and France during the French Revolutionary Wars.

1796 – Tennessee is admitted as the 16th state of the United States.

1812 – War of 1812: The U.S. President James Madison asks the Congress to declare war on the United Kingdom.

1813 – James Lawrence, the mortally-wounded commander of the USS Chesapeake, gives his final order: "Don't give up the ship!"

1815 – Napoleon promulgates a revised Constitution after it passes a plebiscite.

1831 – James Clark Ross discovers the Magnetic North Pole.

1855 – The American adventurer William Walker conquers Nicaragua.

1857 – Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal is published.

1861 – American Civil War: Battle of Fairfax Court House: The first land battle of the American Civil War after the Battle of Fort Sumter, producing the first Confederate combat casualty.

1862 – American Civil War: Peninsula Campaign: The Battle of Seven Pines (or the Battle of Fair Oaks) ends inconclusively, with both sides claiming victory.

1868 – The Treaty of Bosque Redondo is signed, allowing the Navajos to return to their lands in Arizona and New Mexico.

1876 – Hristo Botev, a national revolutionary of Bulgaria, is killed in Stara Planina.

1879 – Napoleon Eugene, the last dynastic Bonaparte, is killed in the Anglo-Zulu War.

1890 – The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to count census returns.

1905 – The Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition opens in Portland, Oregon.

1910 – Robert Falcon Scott's second South Pole expedition leaves Cardiff.

1913 – The Greek–Serbian Treaty of Alliance is signed, paving the way for the Second Balkan War.

1915 – The T.S. Eliot poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock was first published in “Poetry: A Magazine of Verse.”

1916 – Louis Brandeis becomes the first Jew appointed to the United States Supreme Court.

1918 – World War I: Western Front: Battle for Belleau Wood: Allied Forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord engage Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince.

1921 – Tulsa Race Riot: Civil unrest in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

1922 – The Royal Ulster Constabulary is founded.

1929 – The 1st Conference of the Communist Parties of Latin America is held in Buenos Aires.

1933 – In a scene captured by news photographers, Lya Graf, a female circus dwarf, sat in the lap of financier J.P. Morgan Jr. during a recess of a Senate Banking Committee hearing on J.P. Morgan’s banking activities in 1933, in what became known as the Pecora hearings.

1939 – First flight of the German Focke-Wulf Fw 190 fighter-bomber airplane.

1941 – World War II: The Battle of Crete ends as Crete capitulates to Germany.

1941 – The Farhud, a pogrom of Iraqi Jews, takes place in Baghdad.

1943 – British Overseas Airways Corporation Flight 777 is shot down over the Bay of Biscay by German Junkers Ju 88s, killing the actor Leslie Howard and leading to speculation that its shooting down was an attempt to kill the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.

1946 – Ion Antonescu, "Conducator" (leader) of Romania during World War II, is executed.

1958 – Charles de Gaulle comes out of retirement to lead France by decree for six months.

1960 – New Zealand's first official television broadcast commences at 7.30 pm from Auckland.

1962 – Adolf Eichmann is hanged in Israel.

1962 – The Pilkington Committee on Broadcasting concludes, among other things, that the British public did not want commercial radio broadcasting.

1963 – Kenya gains internal self-rule (Madaraka Day).

1967 – The Beatles album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is released.

1974 – Flixborough disaster: An explosion at a chemical plant kills 28 people.

1974 – The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal Emergency Medicine.

1978 – The first international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty are filed.

1979 – The first black-led government of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 90 years takes power.

1980 – Cable News Network (CNN) begins broadcasting.

1990 – George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production.

1993 – Dobrinja mortar attack: Thirteen are killed and 133 wounded when Serb mortar shells are fired at a soccer game in Dobrinja, west of Sarajevo.

1999 – American Airlines Flight 1420 slides and crashes while landing at Little Rock National Airport, killing 11 people on a flight from Dallas to Little Rock.

2001 – Nepalese royal massacre: Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal shoots and kills several members of his family including his father and mother, King Birendra of Nepal and Queen Aiswarya.

2001 – Dolphinarium massacre: A Hamas suicide bomber kills 21 at a disco in Tel Aviv.

2003 – The People's Republic of China begins filling the reservoir behind the Three Gorges Dam.

2009 – Air France Flight 447 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. All 228 passengers and crew are killed.

2009 – General Motors files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. It is the fourth largest United States bankruptcy in history.

2011 – A rare tornado outbreak occurs in New England; a strong EF3 tornado strikes Springfield, Massachusetts, during the event, killing four people.

2014 – A bombing at a football field in Mubi, Nigeria, kills at least 40 people.

2015 – A ship carrying 458 people capsizes on Yangtze River in China's Hubei province, killing 400 people.



Saints' Days and Holy Days

Traditional Western



Within the Octave of St. Augustine of Canterbury.


Contemporary Western



Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran



Eastern Orthodox


Saints

Martyr Justin the Philosopher (Justin Martyr) at Rome (166)
Martyrs Chariton, Charita, Euelpistus, Hierax, Peonus, Valerian (Liberianus),
      and Justus with Justin Martyr (166)
Martyr Neon, by beheading
Saint Pyrrus, Bishop, reposed in peace
Hieromartyr Phyrrhus the Virgin
Martyr Thespesius of Cappadocia (222)
Martyrs Ischyrion, a military officer, and five other soldiers, in Egypt (250)
The holy Ten thousand Martyrs, in Antiochia (249-251)
Martyr Firmus, under the eparch Magus (299)
Martyr Gerasimos
St. Metrius the Farmer of Myra in Lycia (912)

Pre-Schism Western Saints

Martyrs Felinus and Gratinianus (250)
Hieromartyrs Reverianus (Bishop) and Paul (priest), with ten others,
      at Autun (272)
Martyr Crescentian, in Saldo near Città di Castello in Italy (287)
Martyr Juventius, in Rome
Martyr Proclus, at Bologna (304)
Martyr Secundus, At Amelia in Umbria, when thrown into the Tiber (304)
Martyr Clarus of Acquitaine, a Bishop believed to have been sent to evangelize
      Aquitaine, France
Saint Fortunatus of Spoleto the Wonderworker (400)
Saint Caprasius of Lérins, Abbot (430)
Saint Ronan of Locronan (Ronan of Cornwall), an early bishop of Cornish origin
      who preached in Cornwall and in Brittany (6th c.)
Saint Wite, a female Dorset saint martyred by the Danes, buried at Whitchurch
      Canonicorum (c. 831)
Saint Wigstan (Wystan, Wistan, Winston), of the royal house of Mercia
      in England (849)
Saint Gaudentius of Ossero, Bishop of Ossero in Istria (1044)
Saint Atto, a monk at Oña in Spain with St. Enneco, who later became Bishop
      of Oca-Valpuesta (c. 1044)

Post-Schism Orthodox Saints

Saint Agapetus of the Kiev Caves, Unmercenary physician of the Kiev
      Near Caves (1095)
Dionysius of Glushetsk in Vologda, Abbot, Wonderworker (1437)
Martyr Shio the New (Shio of Akhakalakhi) in Georgia (1696)
Synaxis of the Holy Martyrs of Georgia: David, Gabriel, and Paul of the
      St. David Gareji Monastery (1696-1700)
Saint Justin (Popovic), Archimandrite of Ćelije Monastery in Serbia (1979)

New Martyrs and Confessors

New Hieromartyr Onuphrius (Gagalyuk), Bishop of Kharkov (1938)
New Hieromartyr Basil, priest, Virgin-martyr Vera Samsonov (1940)

Other commemorations

Commemoration of the deliverance of the island of Lefkada from the plague through
      the intercession of Saint Bessarion (†1540), Archbishop of Larissa (c. 1743)
Repose of Elder Philaret of Kapsala, Mt. Athos (1975)
Glorification (1990) of Righteous John of Kronstadt (1908)

Coptic Orthodox


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