Day by Day Vol I, Edition 4, 8-14- 2013

Day by Day Vol I, Edition 4, 8-14- 2013 – Published Mon.-Fri.

NEWS AND VIEWS

The Guardian

1. Kidnapped 16-year-old California girl says her captor 'tricked' family, deserved to die Washington Post ‎- 1 hour ago SAN DIEGO — The 16-year-old California girl kidnapped by a close family friend suspected of killing her mother and 8-year-old brother says he ...
   

   Egypt protests: Bloodshed as Pro-Morsi camps cleared

   The BBC's Hugh Sykes says a great cloud of black smoke is hanging over the Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque area

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   Egyptian security forces have stormed two protest camps occupied by supporters of deposed president Mohammed Morsi in Cairo, with reports of many killed.

   Witnesses said they saw at least 40 bodies, but the Muslim Brotherhood says hundreds died.
   Armoured bulldozers moved deep into the main camp outside the eastern Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque.
   Officials say the other protest camp, at Nahda Square, has also been cleared.
   Graphic accounts of bloodshed emerged from the protest camps as reporters described wounded protesters being treated next to the dead in makeshift field hospitals.
   The 17-year-old daughter of leading Muslim Brotherhood figure Mohamed el-Beltagy was among the dead. Asmaa el-Beltagy was shot in the back and chest, her brother said.
   A cameraman working for Sky News, Mick Deane, has also been killed in the violence.
   There were reports of unrest elsewhere in Egypt.
   

NATIONAL CATHOLIC REGISTER- The latest in daily news around the world.

TODAY'S GOSPEL-

Matthew 18: 15-20
If your brother listens to you, you have won him over

Dealing With Sin in the Church

15“If your brother or sister^b sins,^c go and point out their fault, just between the two of you. If they listen to you, you have won them over. 16But if they will not listen, take one or two others along, so that ‘every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.’^d 17If they still refuse to listen, tell it to the church; and if they refuse to listen even to the church, treat them as you would a pagan or a tax collector.

18“Truly I tell you, whatever you bind on earth will be^e bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be^f loosed in heaven.

19“Again, truly I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything they ask for, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. 20For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.”

PRAYER -A Prayer for America

Father, we beg Your blessing for the Right to Life, the Unborn, the weak, the sick and the old; all who are finding themselves being targets of the vicious culture of death; that our Lord Jesus bless and protect all who stand up for the Christian dignity of persons. That God enlighten those who are traveling down death's highway by their involvement, in any way, with either the contemporary death culture, self ism, relativism, or any of the new age errors of our times, that God envelop our culture with His Divine protection and help us both individually and as a nation to true enlightenment, conversion and repentance of our selves and our culture. Help us to turn from our national sin of abortion, and return to, and once again become a Christian nation, on the narrow road, that is, the path to becoming a nation and culture, under God. Amen.


The moral of this story could be “Don’t believe everything you read,” because not only do writers make occasional mistakes, some writers intentionally insert fake facts into their works of non-fiction.
Authors or publishers have a lot of reasons for inserting the occasional fake fact in an otherwise rigorously researched reference book—they may be laying a “copyright trap” to see if anybody uses their book without giving credit. Or sometimes they just do it because it’s fun to trick people.

FAKE SONG. Joel Whitburn compiles music chart history books based on Billboard’s many charts, which go back to the 1930s. A number of his books note a very obscure song called “The Song of Love” recorded by bandleader Ralph Marterie. Whitburn says the song debuted and peaked at #84 on the pop chart for the week of December 26, 1955.  However, Marterie never recorded “The Song of Love.” Nor did Billboard put out a chart the week of December 26, 1955. Whitburn included it to track just how far and by whom his research goes. (Ralph Marterie, however, was a real bandleader and made several recordings in the 1950s.)

FAKE FACT. In 1977, Fred L. Worth wrote The Complete Unabridged Super Trivia Encyclopedia. Since there are lots of other trivia books out there (Really?), Worth wanted to protect the hard work he’d done compiling his book, so he included one fake fact in his book—a “gotcha” in case he ever saw that “fact” in another book. Seven years later, Trivial Pursuit became a huge fad, selling more than $200 million worth of games. Worth noticed that a lot of the material on the cards was very similar to the stuff that in his book, and sued the makers of the game for copyright infringement. His smoking gun: a Trivial Pursuit card claimed that the rarely-spoken first name of ‘70s TV detective Columbo was Philip. Except that it wasn’t true—Worth made it up for just such a reason. The case was thrown of court; the judge ruled that facts cannot be copyrighted—fake ones notwithstanding. (By the way, Columbo’s name was never actually revealed on the show—although lots of TV trivia websites and books out there still insist that it was Philip.)

FAKE MOVIE. The 1980 book The Golden Turkey Awards was one of the first ever to celebrate bad movies for being bad—for example, it renewed interest in the work of ’50s B-movie director Ed Wood, whom authors Michael and Harry Medved say directed the worst movie of all time, Plan 9 From Outer Space. Many of the movies detailed in the book were well-known but others were obscure, particularly Dog of Norway, a terrible animal movie starring Muki the Wonder Hound. But Dog of Norway, it turned out, was a hoax, and two clues to that fact were in book: A dog named Muki is included in the author’s photo, and the book is dedicated to Muki. Source: Uncle Johns Bathroom Reader

NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE Advance praise for: Proof of Heaven Dr. Eben Alexander's near-death experience is the most astounding I have heard in my whole life. He is living proof to me of an afterlife. As hard as the idea is to believe this doctor relates his experiences clinically from the doctors and nurses who treated him those many days he was brain-dead. Dr. Alexander has been an academic neurosurgeon for the last 25 years, including 15 years at the Brigham & Women's and the Children's Hospitals and Harvard Medical School in Boston. Visit him at www.lifebeyondeath.net

Photo Credit: Amazon - First, he saw white-pink clouds against a blue-black backdrop (purportedly the sky). Above the clouds, he claims to have observed “flocks of transparent, shimmering beings arced across the sky.” While he isn’t able to define exactly what he observed, he called them advanced, higher forms of being. The creatures were so content and overjoyed, Alexander recalls, that they created a “glorious chant” as they moved. He also stressed the interconnectedness of everything he observed, writing, “Everything was distinct, yet everything was also a part of everything else, like the rich and intermingled designs on a Persian carpet … or a butterfly’s wing.” On this journey, Alexander said a woman was with him and that she delivered to him very pointed messages. While she didn’t speak in the traditional sense, Alexander was able to understand her every word. The general messages were: “You are loved and cherished, dearly, forever,” “You have nothing to fear” and “There is nothing you can do wrong.”

The woman also told him that she (and others) would show him many things in this new world, but that he would inevitably return to earth. These are only a few of the elements that he described seeing. Just as surprising as what he observed is the change-of-heart that  Alexander has had as a resul t of the experience: