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The Interior Department’s Fish and Wildlife Service is offering “ecogrief” training to employees who are struggling with a sense of trauma or loss as they witness a changing environment. The class will give staffers a chance to define what they mean by ecological grief, space to examine their emotional reactions and tools to grapple with those feelings, the agency said in a note to employees in the Southwest region, where the training is offered. Those who sign up will be led to “find ways to act while caring for themselves.” “This 4-hour workshop seeks to normalize the wide range of...

The team has recently published two papers...that studied supermassive black holes at the hearts of ancient and dormant galaxies..."We're really saying two things at once: that there's evidence the typical black hole solutions don't work for you on a long, long timescale, and we have the first proposed astrophysical source for dark energy," said Astrophysicist Duncan Farrah, lead author of both papers.

Today telling the truth has largely disappeared from public discourse. Let’s use basic history as an example. Learning history in school was the norm during the period 1952-1969, the formative years up through my graduation from college. I received a detailed education in public schools of our founding and principles, American history, and world history dating back to antiquity. As part of a Navy family, I went to school all over the country: Virginia, Maryland twice, California, Illinois, and Nebraska. History teaching was consistent everywhere, including hard truths about slavery here and around the world. SNIP It is true that...

A few dozen pro-Ukrainian demonstrators gathered Wednesday night outside the Civic Opera House to denounce the Joffrey Ballet’s staging of a ballet based on a Russian novel amid Russia’s deadly invasion of Ukraine. “I’m from Ukraine; I’m offended by the lack of sensitivity,” said Lise Korneichuk, 26, a student at the School of the Art Institute. “The theater should show solidarity instead of promoting Russian culture.” ...

INTERLACHEN, Fla. — Putnam County Sheriff’s Office said a 67-year-old woman shot and killed a man they said forced his way into her home with a gun. The man was identified as 64-year-old Reginald Best. According to the police report, the 67-year-old said she heard the door handle shaking around 3:30 a.m. Wednesday morning and grabbed a gun to see what was going on. She told deputies she thought it could have been her husband because he works late, odd hours.

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemMark 4The Parable of the Growing Seed26 He also said, “This is what the kingdom of God is like. A man scatters seed on the ground. 27 Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how. 28 All by itself the soil produces grain—first the stalk, then the head, then the full kernel in the head. 29 As soon as the grain is ripe, he puts the sickle to it, because the harvest has come.”_______________________________________________________New International Version (NIV) Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV®...

When educators deceive parents to achieve their goals, many choose to exit the system and reject its ideals so entirely that they become the funhouse mirror version of them. Across the United States, students, parents, teachers, and administrators are battling over which curricula will be taught in K-12 schools, especially when it comes to race and gender. Initiatives like diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), critical race theory, and social-emotional learning (SEL) have become common sources of aggravation as they have been sprinkled throughout various subjects in public and private schools. Many conservative and religious parents have canvassed school board meetings...

OUR SPECIAL WASHINGTON DISPATCHES. WASHINGTON, Sunday, Feb. 15. Lieut.-Col. DOOR, of Gen. FOSTER's Staff, arrived here to-day, direct from Port Royal, with dispatches for the Government. He utterly denies the recent sensation reports in regard to a quarrel between Gens. HUNTER and FOSTER. The same denial is made by the President, and no reason exists to believe that anything has occurred likely to impair the efficiency of our army in the Department of the South. Two refugees, who arrived here to-day from Richmond, which place they left on Wednesday last, state that five brigades of troops from the Confederate army...

No signs of India’s once-in-a-decade census, due in 2021 and delayed due to the pandemic, beginning soon. In two months, India is projected to become the world’s most populous country with more than 1.4 billion people. But for at least a year, and possibly longer, the country will not know how many people it has because it has not been able to count them. India’s once-in-a-decade census, due in 2021 and delayed due to the pandemic, has now got bogged down by technical and logistical hurdles, and there are no signs the mammoth exercise is likely to begin soon. Experts...

The National Instant background Check System (NICS) gun sales and background checks are slightly higher for January of 2023 than they were for January of 2022. Gun sales are six percent higher, and background checks are three percent higher than in January of 2022. Background checks continue to outnumber gun sales by over 2-1, as many background checks are done for purposes other than a gun sale.With about 1.22 million guns sold in the NICS system in January, the United States is on track to equal the number of guns sold in 2022, about 17 million. If the trend continues,...

Our government is playing with our lives as it prefers diversity, equity, and inclusion over ensuring the best qualified employees are hired. A recent epidemic of airline near misses deserves both attention and reflection. In mid-December, a San Francisco-bound United Airlines Boeing 777-200 airliner, just a little over a minute after taking off from Maui, Hawaii, suddenly dived. It lost more than half its altitude and came within 800 feet of crashing into the Pacific Ocean before pulling up. About a month later, an American Airlines jet crossed the runway at New York City’s John F. Kennedy International Airport just...

Chicago Dad Placed on Watchlist After Opposing Pornography in Schools A Chicago father has learned that he has been placed on a flight watchlist after opposing pornographic materials in his kids’ schools. Over the summer of 2021, Terry Newsome—who described himself in comments to the Epoch Times as a “lifelong Democrat” until recently—was one of several parents in the 99th school district of Downer’s Grove, Chicago, who expressed opposition to books in his children’s library that had sexually explicit and pornographic content. In December, Newsome discovered he had been placed on a watchlist. On Dec. 16, 2022, he and his...

There are no survivors after a military helicopter carrying two people on a routine training mission crashed onto an Alabama highway Wednesday, officials said. The Black Hawk aircraft crashed around 3 p.m. near Highway 53 and Burwell Road in Harvest, about 10 miles northeast of Huntsville, the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency said. The helicopter caught fire upon impact, and both passengers died, military officials said.

16 February 2023Thursday of week 6 in Ordinary Time A tomb that is said to be St. Juliana's, in Santillana del Mar Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First readingGenesis 9:1-13 ©The sign of the CovenantGod blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, ‘Be fruitful, multiply and fill the earth. Be the terror and the dread of all the wild beasts and all the birds of heaven, of everything that crawls on the ground and all the fish of the sea; they are handed over to you. Every living and crawling thing shall provide food for you, no less...

Google says it has been working around the clock alongside other Big Tech companies to fight Russian cyberattackers waging a digital war against Ukraine, guarding against some of the same ransomware attackers who previously hit the U.S. The tech Titan published a “Fog of War” report Thursday saying the Ukrainian government is under “near-constant digital attack” from Russia, including via its military intelligence service, the GRU. Google said it disrupted government-backed attackers to protect people from exploitation and notified users of products such as Gmail that they had been targeted, when the company deemed it appropriate. The U.S. government is...

While the U.S. was busy celebrating the Super Bowl on Sunday night, Europeans had their own spectacle. Early Monday morning, a bright flash streaked across the skies over Western Europe as an asteroid discovered just hours earlier made its impact with Earth's atmosphere. The asteroid, dubbed Sar2667, was first detected on the evening of Feb. 12 by astronomer Krisztián Sárneczky in Hungary. He told Space.com that he found the asteroid during a routine near-Earth object hunt using a 2-foot telescope. "It was immediately obvious that it was an NEO, but it wasn't particularly fast across the sky," he said, "as...

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"Washington Gun Law President, William Kirk, discusses now the third, of what will be many lawsuits to stop ATF's gross overreach with the publication of their new Pistol Brace Rule. Today we discuss the case of Firearms Responsibility Accountability Coalition v. Garland, filed in the U.S. District Court for the North Dakota. What make this case so unique however, is that 26 states have joined in as plaintiffs meaning that more than half the states in our country are now suing the Federal Government over this rule. Learn what all of this means to you and arm yourself with education...