The Rev. Marcin Nurek, 37, was ordained into the priesthood on July 1 and had been expected to start Aug. 15 as Parochial Vicar of Saint Catherine of Siena Cult in Mountain Lakes.
Thursday, August 10, 2017
Priest accused of groping girl a month after being ordained
The Rev. Marcin Nurek, 37, was ordained into the priesthood on July 1 and had been expected to start Aug. 15 as Parochial Vicar of Saint Catherine of Siena Cult in Mountain Lakes.
Arizona woman sentenced to death for murder of 10-year-old cousin
An Arizona woman was sentenced to death on Monday for killing her
10-year-old cousin, who was locked inside a small storage bin as
punishment for taking a Popsicle without permission. Black drivers hit with racist abuse in white Philly neighborhood
‘Our civil rights are being violated’
Google anti-diversity manifesto author identified -- and then fired
Massive Impact Of Climate Change On The United States
While Dumbass Trump’s junta tries to censor climate change out of
existence, the alarms keep sounding. You can bet Dumbass Trump will keep trying
to suppress them.
A billion miles past Pluto
Wednesday, August 9, 2017
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Today in History
| 480 BC | The Persian army defeats Leonidas and his Spartan army at the Battle Thermopylae, Persia. | |
| 48 BC | Julius Caesar defeats Gnaius Pompey at Pharsalus. | |
| 1483 | Pope Sixtus IV celebrates the first mass in the Sistine Chapel, which is named in his honor. | |
| 1549 | England declares war on France. | |
| 1645 | Settlers in New Amsterdam gain peace with the Indians after conducting talks with the Mohawks. | |
| 1805 | Austria joins Britain, Russia, Sweden and the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia in the third coalition against France. | |
| 1814 | Andrew Jackson and the Creek Indians sign the Treaty of Fort Jackson, giving the whites 23 million acres of Creek territory. | |
| 1842 | The Webster-Ashburton treaty fixes the border between Maine and Canada’s New Brunswick. | |
| 1859 | The escalator is patented. However, the first working escalator appeared in 1900. Manufactured by the Otis Elevator Company for the Paris Exposition, it was installed in a Philadelphia office building the following year. | |
| 1862 | At Cedar Mountain, Virginia, Confederate General “Stonewall” Jackson repels an attack by Union forces. | |
| 1910 | The first complete, self-contained electric washing machine is patented. | |
| 1930 | The first appearance of the animated character Betty Boop (“Dizzy Dishes”). | |
| 1936 | Jesse Owens wins four gold medals in track and field events at the Berlin Olympics. | |
| 1941 | President Franklin Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill meet at Placentia Bay, Newfoundland. The meeting produces the Atlantic Charter, an agreement between the two countries on war aims, even though the United States is still a neutral country. | |
| 1944 | The fictional character Smokey Bear (“Only you can prevent forest fires”) is created by US Forest Service and the Ad Council. | |
| 1945 | The B-29 bomber Bock’s Car drops a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan. | |
| 1965 | Singapore is expelled from Malaysia following economic disagreements and racial tensions; becomes independent republic. | |
| 1969 | Charles Manson’s followers kill actress Sharon Tate and her three guests in her Beverly Hills home. | |
| 1971 | Le Roy (Satchel) Paige is inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame. | |
| 1974 | Ford is sworn in as president of the United States after the resignation of Nixon. | |
| 1975 | The first NFL game is played in the Louisiana Superdome; Houston Oilers defeat New Orleans Saints 13-7. | |
| 1979 | England’s first major nude beach established, at the seaside resort of Brighton. | |
| 1992 | The twenty-fifth Olympic Summer Games closes in Barcelona, Spain. | |
| 1999 | Russian president Boris Yeltsin fires his prime minister and, for the fourth time, fires the entire cabinet. | |
| 1999 | The Diet of Japan establishes the country’s official national flag, the Hinomaru, and national anthem, “Kimi Ga Yo.”. |
It’s Official: The United States Government Is Censoring Climate Data
A disturbing new report reveals that the staff at the US Department
of Agriculture (USDA) have officially been instructed to begin censoring
information...
The MOST Hated Thing In Your State
Thanks to the new dating app Hater,
which was released in February 2017, the dislikes of Americans across
the United States are now clearly categorized by the states in which
they originate.
Women have more active brains
Doctors who attend lower-tier medical schools prescribe far more opioids
Consumer groups fight ‘shameful’ effort to stop lawsuits by abused nursing home residents
"The" Diversity Memo
The memo, which tech news site Recode published in full, is titled "Google's Ideological Echo Chamber."
Corrupt Wall Streeters Are Three Times More Likely To Go Unpunished Under Dumbass Trump
Dumbass Trump’s chief economic adviser and Director of the National
Economic Council is Gary Cohn. Dumbass Trump’s Secretary of the Treasury is
Steven...
Rich SF residents furious after couple buys their street at auction
Residents in an exclusive San Francisco neighborhood are furious after a
couple from San Jose bought their entire street at an auction.
Sanctions have a silver lining for Russian cheese producer
Secret Room discovered in Great Pyramid
Dogs foil Boko Haram suicide attack
The group—whose name means “Western education is forbidden” —has killed tens of thousands and displaced millions of people since launching its bloody battle to establish a hardline Islamic caliphate in the country. It regularly sends suicide bombers to attack soft targets, including marketplaces and mosques, causing destruction and killing civilians.
Mysterious sea creatures eat through skin of teen in Melbourne
Sam Kanizay, 16, went to soak his legs at the bay after a football match on Saturday. Half an hour later, he walked out of the water covered in blood and saw tiny sea creatures eating his legs.
US to relax rules protecting sage grouse
Tuesday, August 8, 2017
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| 1306 | King Wenceslas of Poland is murdered. | |
| 1570 | Charles IX of France signs the Treaty of St. Germain, ending the third war of religion and giving religious freedom to the Huguenots. | |
| 1636 | The invading armies of Spain, Austria and Bavaria are stopped at the village of St.-Jean-de-Losne, only 50 miles from France. | |
| 1648 | Ibrahim, the sultan of Istanbul, is thrown into prison, then assassinated. | |
| 1786 | Jacques Balmat and Dr. Michel-Gabriel Paccard become the first men to climb Mont Blanc in France. | |
| 1844 | Brigham Young is chosen to head the Mormon Church, succeeding Joseph Smith. | |
| 1863 | Confederate President Jefferson Davis refuses General Robert E. Lee‘s resignation. | |
| 1876 | Thomas Edison patents the mimeograph. | |
| 1899 | The first household refrigerating machine is patented. | |
| 1925 | The first national congress of the Ku Klux Klan opens. | |
| 1937 | The Japanese Army occupies Beijing. | |
| 1940 | The German Luftwaffe attacks Great Britain for the first time, beginning the Battle of Britain. | |
| 1942 | U.S. Marines capture the Japanese airstrip on Guadalcanal. | |
| 1944 | U.S. forces complete the capture of the Marianas Islands. | |
| 1945 | The Soviet Union declares war on Japan. | |
| 1950 | U.S. troops repel the first North Korean attempt to overrun them at the Battle of Naktong Bulge, which continued for 10 days. | |
| 1963 | England’s “Great Train Robbery;” 2.6 million pounds ($7.3 million) is stolen | |
| 1974 | Nixon resigns from the presidency as a result of the Watergate scandal. | |
| 1978 | Pioneer-Venus 2 is launched to probe the atmosphere of Venus. | |
| 1979 | Iraq’s president Saddam Hussein executes 22 political opponents. | |
| 1983 | Brigadier General Efrain Rios Montt is deposed as president of Guatemala in the country’s second military coup in 17 months. | |
| 1988 | Angola, Cuba and South Africa sign a cease-fire treaty in the border war that began in 1966. | |
| 1989 | NASA Space Shuttle Columbia begins its eighth flight, NASA’s 30th shuttle mission. | |
| 1990 | Iraq annexes the state of Kuwait as its 19th province, six days after Iraqi troops invaded Kuwait. | |
| 2000 | The Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to surface, 136 years after it sank following its successful attack on USS Housatonic in the outer harbor of Charleston, South Carolina. | |
| 2007 | An EF2 tornado hits Brooklyn, New York, the first in that borough since 1889. | |
| 2008 | Georgia invades South Ossetia, touching off a five-day war between Georgia and Russia. |
10 Things You Learn When You Go Backpacking In A Wheelchair
1. You can take a wheelchair just about anywhere…although you won’t always be in it.Read the rest of Oulton's list and see pictures of the trip at Buzzfeed.
I took my wheelchair places I never thought I could go, including wheeling into a river to wash an elephant with a tiny bucket. I found that often the only way to accommodate my wheelchair was to separate myself from it; I had to bum-shuffle into and around my chosen method of transportation. By bungee-cording my wheelchair to vehicles, I managed to travel on boats, tuk-tuks, and motorbikes. This did mean I spent most of the trip with a brown-stained bum and quickly realized the flashing hazards of the dresses I had brought.
2. Things can get really personal.
There’s nothing quite like your wheelchair being strapped to the roof of the Mekong boat you’ll be on for two days, weak legs and appalling stability even on steady land, a heavy flow, a Mooncup, a squat toilet, and no running water to bring you closer to the friend you’re traveling with.
Locals From 14 Countries Reveal The Most Annoying Things Tourists Do
A common complaint by people across the globe is about travelers who treat the local poor like tourist attractions to be photographed and gawked at. You can read the rest of the comments over at Travel and Leisure.
Two tourists arrested in Germany over Nazi salute
Berlin police officers said they detained the two men, aged 36 and 49, after they were seen striking the Nazi-era pose and photographing each other with their mobile phones.
They face charges for "using symbols of illegal organizations", police said in a statement quoted by Reuters. They were released after posting bail of 500 euros each.
Germany has strict laws on hate speech and symbols linked to Hitler and the Nazis.
'I feel way more happier now that I know who I am'
Around the age of 7, she talked about not wanting to be alive, her mother, Jamie Bruesehoff, said.
"She didn't enjoy anything, she had anxiety, was really distressed and depression came with that," Jamie said. "She just kind of lost the light in her."
It wasn't until after Rebekah hit a crisis point that her family became aware of the reason for the distress -- her gender. She'd been born a boy, but in her heart, she knew she was a girl.
Two years after her transition, Rebekah says much has changed.
"I feel way more happier now that I know who I am," she said. "I feel me."
Americans might be having less sex due to 'helicopter parenting'
Well-Intentioned Phrases Ruined By Obnoxious People
But, like every other
well intentioned thing in this world, some jerks just had to take
phrases like "does it have gluten in it?" or "think of the children!"
and ruin them for everyone else.
People once asked about gluten because they have celiac disease, and eating gluten filled foods like wheat, barley or rye can make them really sick, but then the diet fad began and made "gluten" a jerk word.
Likewise
"won't somebody please think of the children?" began as a well-meaning
phrase designed to get people to think about what kids are exposed to,
so strippers and sailors would tone it down around the kiddos.
But now it's a PC battle cry yelled by those who seek to "protect children" by whitewashing the world, making the world a safer place by censoring the crap out of everything.
People once asked about gluten because they have celiac disease, and eating gluten filled foods like wheat, barley or rye can make them really sick, but then the diet fad began and made "gluten" a jerk word.
But now it's a PC battle cry yelled by those who seek to "protect children" by whitewashing the world, making the world a safer place by censoring the crap out of everything.
‘America’s toughest sheriff’ reduced to begging for money after being found guilty of contempt of court
Days after being found guilty of criminal
contempt, former Maricopa County Sheriff Arpaio is sending out blast
emails begging for financial support.
From Boy Geniuses to Mad Scientists ...
... How Americans Got So Weird About Science
Science
is the most interesting part of the school day, and it's the easiest
way to get a child interested in their own education. That's one reason
we encourage in interest in science among children, but it's not the
only reason. At different times in our history, we've become very
excited about the idea of our kids growing up to eventually make the
world a better place. Historian Rebecca Onion, author of Innocent Experiments: Childhood and the Culture of Popular Science in the United States,
tells us about how our changing views of science affect how we
encourage our children to learn about it. Wartime particularly shaped
public opinion, because great innovations come from wartime research,
for good or evil.After World War II, Americans embraced the bounty of wartime scientific advances and a thriving economy: They now had cheap goods made out of high-tech plastic, streamlined appliances, and home TV sets. But they were also haunted by the specters of the A-bomb and the H-bomb. The burgeoning Cold War with the U.S.S.R. raised fears that workaholic Soviet scientists, laboring relentlessly under Communism, were making progress faster than American scientists, a competition that played out in the Space Race. Mainstream American pop culture attempted to assure people with images of the perfect suburban family defeating Communism through consumerism. However, American B-movies, comics, and pulp fiction were overrun with evil robots, monsters from space, radioactive mutants—and “mad scientists.” All of this affected how Americans regarded scientific education.But the pendulum swings both ways, and not always in a straight line. Girls and minority children were left out of the public push for science education until recently. Science fiction and horror movies gave us reason to fear science. And when a child reaches a certain age, an interest in science can brand them as nerdy. Read an overview of how our culture had shaped science education for kids over time at Collectors Weekly.
“The fears spiked in Postwar America at particular moments,” Onion says. “When Sputnik became the first spacecraft launched into orbit in 1957, Americans panicked, like, ‘Oh my God, the Soviets have it over us. Whatever the great powers of science and technology are, they’re better at them.’ That launch created a lot of apprehension and fear that kids absorbed and processed. Tons of postwar popular culture addressed that combination of wonder and fear, especially about nuclear technology and space travel.”
The Darker Side of The Total Solar Eclipse
Gridlocks are expected across the U.S. for several days before and after the eclipse.Read more about what to expect if you live in the zone of totality at City Lab.
“It is similar to what would happen for an evacuation for a hurricane,” said Howard Duvall, councilman for Columbia, South Carolina.
To help the public grasp the size of these traffic jams, Duvall said it’s easier, and less frightening to compare the impact to a football game, even if no football game aside from the Super Bowl can really get close to the scale of traffic. “This is going to be like having 10 Carolina-Clemson football games on the same day,” Duvall said.
NASA is Still Tracking Voyager I and Voyager II
All explorations demand sacrifices in exchange for uncertain outcomes. Some of those sacrifices are social: how many resources we collectively devote to a given pursuit of knowledge. But another portion is borne by the explorer alone, who used to be rewarded with adventure and fame if not fortune. For the foreseeable future, Voyager seems destined to remain in the running for the title of Mankind’s Greatest Journey, which might just make its nine flight-team engineers — most of whom have been with the mission since the Reagan administration — our greatest living explorers. They also may be the last people left on the planet who can operate the spacecraft’s onboard computers, which have 235,000 times less memory and 175,000 times less speed than a 16-gigabyte smartphone. And while it’s true that these pioneers haven’t gone anywhere themselves, they are arguably every bit as dauntless as more celebrated predecessors. Magellan never had to steer a vessel from the confines of a dun-colored rental office, let alone stay at the helm long enough to qualify for a senior discount at the McDonald’s next door.Read about the engineers who've dedicated their lives to the Voyager mission at the New York Times. You can also keep up with the V-gers themselves by reading NASA's status page on the mission.
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