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- The Almanac - Feb. 11 - Post Chronicle
- Ore. House votes to allow teacher religious garb - Education Week
- Wolf moon rises over Copley - Akron Leader Publications
- Auto Almanac - Windsor Star
| The Almanac - Feb. 11 - Post Chronicle Posted: 11 Feb 2010 04:51 AM PST Message from fivefilters.org: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it. Today is Thursday, Feb. 11, the 42nd day of 2010 with 323 to follow. The moon is waning. The morning star is Mercury. The evening stars are Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, Venus and Saturn. Those born on this date are under the sign of Aquarius. They include Englishman William Talbot, a developer of photography, in 1800; inventor Thomas Edison in 1847; boxer Max Baer and film director Joseph L. Mankiewicz, both in 1909; author Sidney Sheldon in 1917; actor Eva Gabor in 1919; King Farouk, Egypt's last monarch, in 1920; actors Kim Stanley in 1925, Leslie Nielsen in 1926 (age 84), Tina Louise in 1934 (age 76) and Burt Reynolds in 1936 (age 74); former Florida Gov. and presidential son and brother Jeb Bush in 1953 (age 57); singer/songwriter Sheryl Crow in 1962 (age 48); former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin in 1964 (age 46); actress Jennifer Aniston in 1969 (age 41); and singer/actress Brandy (Norwood) in 1979 (age 31). On this date in history: In 1814, Norway proclaims independence from the Kalmar Union. In 1858, French peasant girl Bernadette Soubirous said the Virgin Mary appeared to her at Lourdes. In 1929, Lateran Treaty is signed with Italy recognizing sovereignty of Vatican City. In 1941, Glenn Miller's "Chattanooga Choo Choo" is awarded the first gold record, given for sales of 1 million copies. In 1945, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin ended their wartime conference at Yalta. In 1965, U.S. and South Vietnamese planes made the first bombing raids on North Vietnam. In 1970, Japan put a satellite in space, following in the footsteps of the Soviet Union, the United States and France. In 1987, Corazon Aquino was sworn in for a six-year presidential term under the new Philippine constitution. In 1990, Nelson Mandela, leader of the movement to end South African apartheid, was released from prison after 27 years behind bars. In 1992, one police officer was killed and four people injured in a terrorist attack on the U.S. ambassador's residence in Lima, Peru. In 1993, British Prime Minister John Major said Queen Elizabeth II will pay income tax on her personal income as well as being subject to capital and inheritance levies. In 1998, Olympic officials took away the gold medal of Canadian snowboarder Ross Rebagliati after he tested positive for a minute amount of marijuana. He blamed second-hand smoke. An arbitration panel restored his medal two days later. Also in 1998, a U.S. judge ruled that pro golfer Casey Martin, who had trouble walking because of a circulatory disorder, was covered by the Disabilities Act and should be allowed to compete in PGA events with a golf cart. In 2002, the Russian figure skating pair won the gold medal in the Winter Olympics over the overwhelming crowd favorite Canadian team but a judging controversy that grew into an international scandal prompted the International Skating Union to award a gold medal to the Canadians also. In 2004, the U.S. State Department warned U.S. citizens not to travel to Haiti and urged those already there and who could leave safely to do so. Also in 2004, two suicide bombings in and near Baghdad killed a reported 100 Iraqis. In 2005, the White House rejected North Korea's demand for bilateral talks over its nuclear weapons program. Also in 2005, playwright Arthur Miller, a fiery moralist whose plays include "Death of a Salesman" and "The Crucible," died at the age of 89. In 2006, U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally sprayed Texas lawyer Harry Whittington with about 200 shotgun pellets while hunting for quail, hitting his friend in the face, neck and torso. Also in 2006, U.S. adventurer Steve Fossett broke the solo flight record when he landed near Bournemouth, England, covering 24,997 miles after taking off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida four days earlier. In 2007, U.S. officials in Baghdad presented evidence that they said indicated the Iranian government was supplying Iraqi Shiite militants with weapons. In 2008, the Iraqi government accused neighboring Iran of taking over more than 15 oil wells on the Iraq-Iran border. A U.S. report estimated smugglers pocketed yearly revenues of nearly $4 billion from Iraqi oil. In 2009, the long, bitter political fight in Zimbabwe apparently was resolved when President Robert Mugabe swore in opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai as prime minister. A thought for the day: "If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe said that. (c) UPI Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Ore. House votes to allow teacher religious garb - Education Week Posted: 11 Feb 2010 06:10 AM PST Message from fivefilters.org: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it.
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The House voted Wednesday to strike down a law dating to the days when the Ku Klux Klan was so powerful in Oregon it could elect a governor, install a man with the initials KKK at the head of a legislative chamber and get a law passed barring religious dress in public classrooms. The state's 1923 law is one of three in the nation, the other two in Pennsylvania and Nebraska. A 51-8 vote sends the bill to the state Senate, which has until the end of February to vote on the measure. An attempt to repeal the law in 2009 as part of legislation to forbid workplace discrimination on religious grounds fell just short. In debate Wednesday, House Speaker Dave Hunt held aloft a photo of a predecessor from the 1920s, Kaspar K. Kubli, and said it was time for the state to get rid of an anachronism that, for example, bars teachers who wear head scarves or turbans as a matter of faith. "They should be judged by their ability to teach, not by their religious faith," Hunt said. He said the measure gave school districts new power to enforce religious neutrality in the behavior of teachers, so the state doesn't have to sacrifice their religious freedom to ensure that they don't proselytize or try to convert their students. The Klan was instrumental in the election of Walter Pierce as governor in 1922 and dominated the Legislature, according to an account in the state historical society's Oregon History Project. Among its measures were those requiring all students to attend public schools — struck down by the state Supreme Court — and legislation to restrict Japanese people from owning or leasing land. Kubli, speaker when the legislation was passed, was a Klansman whose initials were a coincidence, according to the state's almanac, the Blue Book. In recent years, the issue tangled the usual political lines in the Capitol. Opposition has come from the American Civil Liberties Union and from representatives such as Ron Maurer of Grants Pass, who described himself Wednesday as coming from one of the most conservative and Christian parts of Oregon. He is a Republican running for state superintendent of public instruction. Their argument was that allowing religious dress and accessories is either proselytizing in itself or could lead to that on the part of people who are often nearly as important in the lives of students as are families. "I bet each one of us can think of a teacher who affected our life in a special way," Maurer said. Others disputed whether contemporary pupils look at the world as adults do. Rep. Michael Dembrow described his middle school years in the 1960s in a small Connecticut town, where, as an Orthodox Jew wearing a skull cap, he was pointed to and picked on. Then he described visiting a middle school in his northeast Portland district, conversing with a student who had classmates wearing religious scarves, and her response to the legislative debate. "She looked at me as if I were from another planet," he said. "Surely I understood that she was going to be more influenced by her classmate than by her teachers." Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Wolf moon rises over Copley - Akron Leader Publications Posted: 11 Feb 2010 05:06 AM PST Message from fivefilters.org: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it. 2/11/2010 - West Side Leader
COPLEY — A Wolf moon rose over the township Jan. 29. According to the Farmers' Almanac, the full wolf moon in January was so named because wolf packs howled hungrily outside Indian villages during the cold and deep snow of midwinter. The January full moon is also sometimes referred to as the Old Moon or the Moon After Yule. The next full moon is set to appear Feb. 28.  
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| Posted: 11 Feb 2010 03:54 AM PST Message from fivefilters.org: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it. DRAWING BOARD 2011 GMC Acadia Denali: GMC is expanding its fleet of luxury models with the inclusion of the Acadia Denali that this fall joins the Yukon and Sierra Denali. Standard features include a dual sunroof, lower-body cladding and honeycomb grille. Also standard are 20-inch six-spoke chrome wheels, tri-zone climate control and fancier interior trim. Left untouched is the Acadia's 288-horsepower 3.6-litre V6 and six-speed automatic transmission that drives the front wheels (AWD is an option). EBAY WATCH 1963 Plymouth Savoy race car, not sold, 28 bids, high bid US $82,600: This Plymouth is not a clone, but an actual drag machine that competed in the factory-experimental (A/FX) class. It's complete with a fiberglass 1964 (to make it appear current for 1964) front clip, aluminum bumpers and a wheelbase that's shortened by 35 centimetres to aid in weight transfer to the rear tires. The "Jayhawker" originally ran with a 413-cubic-inch "Max Wedge" V8, but now sports a fuel-injected 426-cubic-inch Hemi V8. Bidding breached the US $80,000 mark for this fully restored race car, but it wasn't enough to match the seller's reserve price. Visit www.ebaymotors.com. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
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