Just think of the Tax revenue these homes bring in.
In the heart of Silicon Valley, $1 million gets you an “average” home.
Boosted by the tech rebound, the average price of a single-family home in Santa Clara County has topped $1 million for four straight months, according to MLSListings, a Sunnyvale-based listings service that released a report on July home sales Thursday. MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration has decided marijuana will remain on the list of most-dangerous drugs, fully rebuffing growing support across the country for broad legalization, but said it will allow more research into its medical uses. MORE
A record 65.3 million people were uprooted worldwide last year, many of them fleeing wars only to face walls, tougher laws and xenophobia as they reach borders, the United Nations refugee agency said on Monday.
The figure, which jumped from 59.5 million in 2014 and by 50 percent in five years, means that 1 in every 113 people on the planet is now a refugee, asylum-seeker or internally displaced in a home country. MORE
Want a brain boost? Grab a stick of gum and get chewing, new research suggests. Though you may want to ditch that wad before trying any mental gymnastics, as gum only helps improve test scores if chewed before, not during, testing.
The chewing motion gets blood flowing to the head, the researchers suggest, where it improves memory, according to how quickly a test-taker can recall information in the lab. The effect only lasted a few minutes, but researchers think chewing gum before a test could give students an advantage in some ways. MORE
Ricci Martin, the youngest son of Dean Martin, who performed a tribute show to his father and wrote a memoir about growing up in Beverly Hills, died on Wednesday at his home in Kamas, Utah. He was 62.
His family announced his death, saying the cause had not been determined.
In the 1970s, Mr. Martin released a single, “Stop, Look Around,” and an album, “Beached,” produced by Carl Wilson of the Beach Boys. MORE
Recent extreme heat events in the Middle East have climate scientists worried about future climate-related catastrophes. Temperatures have climbed above 115 F across the region this summer and Kuwait and Iraq recently recorded most likely the hottest temperatures ever in the Eastern Hemisphere. MORE
As Southern California continues to struggle through this summer’s unrelenting smog, a study released Wednesday, Aug. 10, gives a stark reminder of why air quality matters.
Researchers believe that hundreds of people die each year because of Southern California’s poor air quality. Pollution levels routinely exceed the levels deemed safe by health professionals.
In the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale area, about 1,341 people are estimated to die each year because of bad air. MORE
Fire crews are still struggling to bring wildfires in the southern Algarve tourist region under control today, officials have said.
The death toll from two weeks of record blazes rose to 16 when a firefighter, who had been burned in a forest fire in central Portugal last week, died of his injuries late Wednesday night.
Almost 500 firefighters, working with 139 fire trucks and helped by 240 soldiers, contained most of the fires in the Algarve region that had raced for five days through a hilly inland area of dense forest. MORE
How much of this woman (HRC) is being propped up by the Crooked Media, or being assisted to stand or she’ll slump over by Secret Service men
Or being serviced by undercover doctors with syringes to keep her heart ticking, or photoshopped photos of Hillary’s rallys to deceive how large her crowds are when they’re just a fraction,
how much are the polls rigged, in reality they’re reversed, she’s the one that’s losing? How about the the truth that she’s the real misogynist and racist candidate.
How long will it take people to open their eyes to find out all of this is a fraud or ARE THEY TOO PROGRAMMED maybe it’s too late for them hopefully not our Country, SAVE AMERICA!
Jeb Bush is resolutely #NeverTrump but his son, George P. Bush, no longer is.
Dear Friends of the Faith:
It is sinful to slander or attack a Pope even if he be a Heretic Pope. My reply to these complainers is: Why do they accept him as pope while rejecting his authority? They are one and the same! Pre-Vatican II they would have been told to submit or incur excommunication. It’s because they want him to be pope and not be pope, not because they have a Catholic spirit or faith but because they feel they can say whatever they want and rebel with out a true and factual explanation. Continue reading
One of the best kept secrets in history is the Monarch Mind-control programming which uses trauma-based mind control along with state of the art mind control to create humans who are totally controlled by a ‘handler’ without even knowing that they are controlled. This is accomplished by sophisticated use of the brain’s ability to disassociate, which is used to the extreme to create structured multiple-personality- disordered minds.
The laughing stock that is the Novus Ordo Church is getting more and more absurd by the day. A few weeks ago was the first time we heard about a substantial scholarly critique of “Pope” Francis’ supposed “Apostolic Exhortation” Amoris Laetitia, the blasphemous and heretical document in which Francis undermines not only Catholic teaching on sexuality but obliterates the very foundations of Catholic moral theology. (See our memes that illustrate the absurd effects of the teaching contained in Amoris Laetitia.) MORE
The fighting saint. St. Joseph’s in Las Vegas has a St. Sebastian mural on the front wall of the Church.
The ‘Splainer: Who is St. Sebastian and why do athletes claim him?
Athletes who are religious may say a little extra prayer to St. Sebastian, the patron saint of athletes and of the host city of Rio de Janeiro. More from Religion News Service
Vol 9 Issue 31 ~ Editor: Rev. Fr. Courtney Edward Krier
August 6, 2016 ~Transfiguration of Our Lord Jesus Christ
1.Baptism: Means of Salvation (80)
2. Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost
3. Saint Cajetan
4. Christ in the Home (54)
5. Articles and notices
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