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The wireless networks that underpin an assortment of devices, including life-alert alarms, older cellphones and tablets, are about to shut down, an action that consumer advocates say will leave some of society's most vulnerable people without critical communications tools.

The phrase gun culture means different things to different people. Gun enthusiasts herald and defend their constitutional right to own and use firearms. On the other hand, many gun control advocates view gun culture in the United States as a national shame, one that makes us world leaders in gun ownership and violence. The polarization between these two camps is well-chronicled, and former firearms executive Ryan Busse finds himself smack in the middle. He calls himself “a proud outdoorsman, gun owner, father, and resident of Montana.” If there is a reasonable, sustainable middle ground between gun rights and gun control,...

Hundreds of parents in Arizona are demanding the resignation of a school board president accused of keeping secret dossiers on dozens of parents. According to the Scottsdale Independent, Scottsdale Unified School District Governing Board President Jann-Michael Greenburg sent an email to resident Kim Stafford with a screenshot of a Google Drive that contained a trove of personal information on at least 47 parents in the district who have spoken out during school board meetings. The information includes social security numbers, mortgage documents, divorce filings, and screenshots of social media posts. Stafford shared a link to the drive with other parents,...

The Silence of the ShepherdsFailure to condemn evilIn pre-World War II Germany, most Protestant and Catholic Church leaders remained silent and failed to speak out against the truly non-Christian policies implemented by Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. Denouncing these fellow ministers and priests as vendors of "cheap grace," German Lutheran pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer helped to found the Confessing Church, whose adherents refused to compromise their Christian beliefs even under threat of persecution and martyrdom. Adolf Hitler Even though Adolf Hitler was baptized Catholic, he was honest enough to recognize that the policies he promoted clearly placed him outside...

Oscar-winner Leonardo DiCaprio is in final talks to play religious cult leader Jim Jones in MGM’s upcoming feature written by Scott Rosenberg, Variety has confirmed. Known as the leader of the Peoples Temple religious group, Jones was behind the November 1978 mass suicide at his Jonestown settlement that took more than 900 lives. Jones and his inner circle orchestrated the massacre at the jungle commune in Guyana, with the followers directed to drink cyanide-adulterated punch. MGM secured a deal for the feature project in a preemptive situation, with DiCaprio also producing the project alongside Jennifer Davisson for their Appian Way...

[Catholic Caucus] Priest sidelined for criticizing Pope’s support of gay unions pens open letterFri Nov 12, 2021 - 7:21 pm ESTFri Nov 12, 2021 - 7:42 pm EST November 12, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – The following is an open letter by Father Jesusmary Missigbètò, an Opus Dei priest suspended in March of this year after last November criticizing Pope Francis’s support of civil unions of homosexual couples and asking him to correct his position or resign. (Read LifeSite’s exclusive interview with him HERE).First open letter to pope Francis, to cardinals and bishops, to Christians, and people of good will“First call for...

The Marine Corps, the smallest U.S. military force, has plans for a big overhaul designed to address its lack of diversity and problem with retaining troops. The goal that's driving what amounts to a cultural shift within the service, is for the Marines "to reflect America, to reflect the society we come from," Gen. David Berger, commandant of the Marine Corps, said in an interview with NPR's Morning Edition. It's not a matter of being politically correct or "woke," he said. The core of America's strength lies in its diversity, Berger said, adding that the same is true for the...

A woman was surrounded, beaten and nearly robbed by a group of preteen children as young as 11 during an attack on a Manhattan sidewalk, the victim told told NBC New York. The woman, who did not want to be identified, said she was walking home from work when four children, two boys and two girls, attacked her and tried to steal her cellphone. Now she wants to warn others to be on the lookout. "It was basically a group of kids, that's why I didn't suspect anything when they were coming up," she said. The incident occurred just before...

Tucker Carlson would have been a perfect adviser to the late Neville Chamberlain, the British Prime Minister who sold out Czechoslovakia in 1938 at Munich in an attempt to appease the Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler and waive a meaningless piece of diplomatic paper proclaiming “peace in our time.” Instead of confronting Hitler when it was relatively easy and when his own generals did not trust him, we got World War II, the Holocaust, and unfathomable carnage. On his Wednesday night Fox News show, Tucker Carlson treated Ukraine like Chamberlain treated Czechoslovakia, a faraway country of no strategic importance, not worthy...

Memorial of Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini, Virgin Luke 18:1-8 Friends, today’s Gospel exhorts us to pray with persistence. This command is everywhere in the Bible. We see it in Abraham’s steady petition on behalf of the people of Sodom. We see it in today’s account of the persistent widow. We hear it in Jesus’ extraordinary teaching: "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you." One reason that we don’t receive what we want through prayer is that we give up too easily. What could be behind...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation says it is aware of reports that unauthorized emails from a legitimate FBI address were sent to thousands of organizations. "The FBI and CISA are aware of the incident this morning involving fake emails from an @ic.fbi.gov email account," the FBI said in a statement Saturday. "This is an ongoing situation, and we are not able to provide any additional information at this time. The impacted hardware was taken offline quickly upon discovery of the issue. We continue to encourage the public to be cautious of unknown senders and urge you to report suspicious activity...

The attorney for a former top executive of Novant Health who was awarded $10 million Tuesday by a federal jury says the discrimination lawsuit was not a statement against diversity and inclusion initiatives. David Duvall's 2019 lawsuit said he lost his job as senior vice president of marketing and communication the year before because of Novant's effort to diversify its top leadership—and he is a white male. The firing came without warning or explanation shortly before his fifth anniversary with the North Carolina-based health system, and he was replaced by two women, one Black and one white, according to the...

And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam. Then the Philistines went up, and pitched in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi. And the men of Judah said, Why are ye come up against us? And they answered, To bind Samson are we come up, to do to him as he hath done to us. Then three thousand men of Judah went to the top of the rock Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines are rulers over us? what...

"It Must Be Him" is a popular song with music written by Gilbert Bécaud, originally with French lyrics by Maurice Vidalin. New English lyrics (and a new English title) were written by Mack David. The song was published in 1967. The best-selling version of the song was recorded that year by Vikki Carr, which reached number three on the U.S. pop chart and spent three weeks at number one on the easy listening chart. Carr went on to record it in Spanish and Italian, as well. Vikki Carr - "It Must Be Him" (1967, video)

Decay-Instability of Transmutated Chemical Elements Obtained in LENR Experiment A. Klimov Power Engineering Technical University, Moscow, Russia klimov.anatoly@gmail.com It is well-known that there are chemical element transmutation and isotope composition changes in LENR experiments [1-3]. Time evolution of the transmutated chemical elements and their decay-instability have been studied in this work. The new transmutated chemical elements (Fe, Cu, Ca…) were obtained from the initial cathode material Ni (0,9999) in plasma-water reactor by a pulsed repetitive electric discharge (Id ~100 A, ti ~10 µs, Fi ~2 кHz), [1,2]. The chemical compositions of these initial elements and transmutated ones were measured...

Dominican priest slams Pope Francis’ Traditionis Custodes as ‘contrary to the Faith’Fri Nov 12, 2021 - 4:52 pm ESTFri Nov 12, 2021 - 5:57 pm EST (LifeSiteNews) — A Polish Dominican priest said that Traditionis Custodes is “contrary to the Faith” and that attempts to restrict the Latin Mass “will fail” in an open letter he addressed to Pope Francis.The letter, originally written in Polish, is dated August 17, but an English version was first released yesterday and can be found below.It was written by Fr. Wojciech Gołaski, a Dominican priest from Poland who recently joined the priestly Fraternity of...

The simplest way to reduce transportation emissions is making it easier to not drive. And even in places where you have to drive, small changes can make a large difference.With the United Nations COP26 currently underway, climate change and the collective future of humanity is once again on the world’s stage. We know that big change is needed to avoid the worst impacts of climate change and that world leaders are responding too slowly. The recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report summed it up best, signaling a “code red for humanity.”As world leaders deliberate on the best next...

A man entering a Vons supermarket in Santa Monica, California, started a row after refusing to wear a mask, which resulted in the man getting stabbed by a security guard. The Santa Monica Police Department issued a report Tuesday detailing a man entering the supermarket around 10:35 p.m. PT without a face mask began to "cause a scene." Witnesses said when employees approached the man to wear a face mask, he became "belligerent" and began assaulting a staff member. Soon after, a security guard intervened, moving the confrontation outside.

There’s an ancient Chinese proverb from 400 B.C., “when an enemy is woke; first laugh at his strange ways, then kill him.” In today’s military, him can also be replaced with her, it, or whatever pronoun the sailor, soldier, Marine, air person is identifying with at that moment. Across the world our enemies are on the move. China is conducting the biggest military buildup in the Pacific since Japan in the 1930’s. Putin is eyeing the Ukraine like Wily Coyote at an all you can eat Roadrunner buffet. Kim Jong Un is back to his old ways – conducting missiles...

Comet 67P, which famously hosted the first-ever cometary lander in 2014, made its closest approach to Earth on Friday (Nov. 12). The comet, which is now bright enough to observe with amateur telescopes, will not come back to our planet for the next 200 years. During its closest pass at 7:50 pm EST (0050 GMT), Comet 67P was at a distance of 39 million miles (62.8 million kilometres) from our planet, within the orbit of Mars, according to Astronomy Now. Nine days earlier, the comet passed perihelion, the closest point to the sun in its elliptical orbit around our star....