SUNDAY MOMENT R.I.P. Ernie Banks-American Hall of Fame MLB player Presidential Freedom Award recipient Reies Tijerina-American Chicano activist Ward Swingle-American musician Paul Campbell-American actor William Roffler-American NFL player George Goodwin-American Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Marcus Borg-American biblical scholar Tommy Mason-American NFL player Peggy Charren-American childrens TV activist Cynthia Lane-American jazz singer Frank Mazzolo-American film editor and director Du Bois Falcon-American peregrine falcon. --------------------------------------------------------- Belichick, Brady...dont get all indignant on me. You havent earned that right. Just shut the hell up and kick ass next Sunday. Joey D...a huge fan. --------------------------------------------------------- IS beheads 1 Japanese hostage Haruna Yukawa. It is thought he was mentally ill. They hope to exchange the other for a female jihadist being held in Jordan. --------------------------------------------------------- NBC severs all ties to Bill Cosby. --------------------------------------------------------- Worcester boxing champ Edwin Rodriguez will play Roberto Duran in a new Martin Scorsese film Bleed for This. Way to go Champ! --------------------------------------------------------- The Worcester Sharks will move to San Jose CA. They were in Worcester for 9 years. --------------------------------------------------------- The British built Beagle 2 Spacecraft to Mars, launched by The European Space Agency in 2003, and thought lost has been sighted by NASAs Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and efforts to revive it are being considered. NASAs Mars Polar Lander is still missing. --------------------------------------------------------- Funded by a grant from the Paul C. Allen Family Foundation UMASS Dr. Patricia A. McQuilken returns to Liberia to spearhead a much needed upgrade in the Liberian healthcare system. --------------------------------------------------------- Oil pipeline breach in Billings Montana spills 50,000 gallons of oil into The Yellowstone River. In July 2011 an Exxon Mobil Corp. pipeline broke nearby spilling 63,000 gallons. Cant wait for that Keystone Pipeline! --------------------------------------------------------- 5 corpses dated 325-300 B.C. have been found in Greece. Thought to be family or associates of Alexander The Great. --------------------------------------------------------- FOX News apologizes for NO GO ZONE bull___t they been espousing for the last month. The Mayor of Paris is suing FOX. --------------------------------------------------------- The U.S. Meat Animal Research Center in Nebraska has been cross breeding, mutating and experimenting on animals for the purpose of producing more profitable meat products at tax payer expense. Unbelievably cruel and bizarre things going on there. The Animal Welfare Act of 1966 exempts animals used in research to benefit agriculture. That loophole needs to close. --------------------------------------------------------- Patriots defensive tackle Vince Wilfork rescues a woman fron her overturned SUV. Way to go Vince! --------------------------------------------------------- 6 men, 5 from MA and 1 from NH, apparently involved in a cockfighting ring, were arrested with live roosters, dead roosters, cockfighting paraphernalia and $4,500 cash in their vehicle. Perhaps theyre farmers?! --------------------------------------------------------- MA is talking about Universal Pre-K Access. Or making pre-k part of the public school system. --------------------------------------------------------- King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia dies. His half brother accedes to the throne. --------------------------------------------------------- The Yemeni government resigns as Houthis rebels in Yemen take control. The Houthis are a Shiite sect and do not support IS or al-Queda. Hopefully a coalition will assume power. --------------------------------------------------------- 13 year old Shubham Banerjee of Santa Clara CA invents a braille printer he hopes to market for $350. Existing embossers cost thousands of dollars and are big and bulky. --------------------------------------------------------- Ancient scrolls buried in the Mt. Vesuvius eruption of 79 A.D. and found in 1750 can finally be read with out damaging them thanks to X-Ray Phase Contrast Tomography technology. --------------------------------------------------------- A Millbury man enters Brigham and Womens Hospital and shoots and kills Dr. Michael Davidson, then himself. --------------------------------------------------------- The 1st U.S. delegation to Cuba since 1961 heads to the island. --------------------------------------------------------- A male falcon that has nested atop the 27 story W.E.B. Du Bois Library at UMass Amherst for 12 years with the same mate and sired 34 chicks has died. He was found injured in a snowbank and expired on Wednesday. A web cam has been observing and documenting his falcon family for years. He was 14 years old. --------------------------------------------------------- 70 year old Sheldon Silver, Democratic New York Assembly Speaker for 20 years is indicted on conspiracy and bribery charges. --------------------------------------------------------- Russian backed Ukrainian separatists blitz residential section of Mariupol killing 30. --------------------------------------------------------- 69 bodies have been recovered from Air Asia Flight 8501. Attempts to raise the fuselage have so far been unsuccessful. 162 died in that crash. --------------------------------------------------------- Speaker of The House John Boehner invites Israeli PM Netanyahu to address the house. This will boost Netanyahus chances in his upcoming elections and pressure President Obama into accepting tougher sanctions on Iran. Obama does not want to jeopardize nuclear talks with Iran. Boehner and Netanyahu dont want any talks with Iran. --------------------------------------------------------- NE Patriots donate jackets that convert into sleeping bags to Worcesters homeless. --------------------------------------------------------- The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists moved the hands of its symbolic Doomsday Clock ahead 2 minutes....from 11:55 to 11:57....12:00 signifying doomsday. They cited global warming and advancing nuclear technology as their reasons. --------------------------------------------------------- The Auburn Masons donate $4,000 to heating assistance program and $1,500 to food assistance program in Auburn. --------------------------------------------------------- Rockys Ace Hardware amasses 13,402 lbs. of pet food and $5,500 non food items for local animal shelters. --------------------------------------------------------- Microsoft OEM Team grants $5,000 and DCU Credit Union grants $10,000 to The Autism Research Center of Central Massachusetts. --------------------------------------------------------- Lets hope that those in positions of power come to their senses and that barbarities toward our fellow earthlings, human and animal, are curtailed and that the perpetrators undergo a change of heart and policy or be brought to justice. Lets take a moment to think of those who lost the battle this week and those who struggle as we speak. Say a prayer to your god, if you have one, or send love, light and healing vibes to the sick and bereaved. ------------------------------------------------------ Respect all sentient life! Visualize World Peace and Prosperity! Have a great next week friends! Joey D
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