Philadelphia College Student Creates Functional Batsuit

Philadelphia College Student Creates Functional Batsuit

 

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — A Philadelphia University student a taken a page out of the comic books — and decided to make his own Batman suit.

But this isn’t just a costume. The suit actually works just like Batman’s suit.

With the help of personal donations and a Kickstarter campaign, freshman Jackson Gordon from Wayne, Pennsylvania built a functioning Batman suit for just under $2,000.

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Local Student Chefs Compete To Get A Dish They Created On School District’s Menu

Local Student Chefs Compete To Get A Dish They Created On School District’s Menu

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – Student chefs from three Philadelphia public schools competed Thursday for the honor of getting a dish they created on the district’s breakfast menu.

All of the judges found it was a tough call.

Randolph, Dobbins and Swenson students chopped, diced, baked and wrapped under time constraints and the pressure of being judged by a panel that included restaurateur Marc Vetri.

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3-Year-Old Girl Allegedly Abducted By Father Is Reunited With Her Mother In Del.

3-Year-Old Girl Allegedly Abducted By Father Is Reunited With Her Mother In Del.

 

WILMINGTON, Del. (CBS) – A three-year-old New Castle County girl is safe at home after being allegedly abducted by her father and taken to Massachusetts.

Elinor Trotta is happy to be home after a long ordeal. She was reunited with her mother, Dawn Barkus, last night.

On Tuesday afternoon, the FBI located the child, unharmed, in Spencer, Massachusetts – less than 24 hours after she’d been abducted.

“I have no words for it — I just broke down when I saw her,” Barkus said.

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Groundbreaking Ceremony Held For Renovations At Stinger Square Park In Grays Ferry

Groundbreaking Ceremony Held For Renovations At Stinger Square Park In Grays Ferry

 

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Groundbreaking ceremonies were held Wednesday afternoon for sprucing up Stinger Square Park in Philadelphia’s Grays Ferry neighborhood.

Mayor Michael Nutter joined community leaders and residents for the event, but was upstaged by a youngster who was among a group of children he called up to the podium to surround him as he talked about the importance of parks in the city.

On a more serious note, Michael DiBerardinis, Deputy Mayor for Environmental and Community Resources, says the park is in for more than $500,000 in upgrades.

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Police: Amber Alert Canceled; Missing Del. Girl And Father Found Safe

Police: Amber Alert Canceled; Missing Del. Girl And Father Found Safe

NEW CASTLE, Del. (CBS) – Police say an Amber Alert has been canceled and three-year-old Elinor Trotta has been found safe in Spencer, Massachusetts Tuesday afternoon.

Police say her father Michael Trotta was also located there.

“Today is my birthday and I prayed all day to God that I would get her back and he gave me the best birthday present ever,” said Dawn Barkus.

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Chosen Few Emerge From Philadelphia High-Tech Charter School Lottery

Chosen Few Emerge From Philadelphia High-Tech Charter School Lottery

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Thousands of parents learned Tuesday whether their child was awarded a spot in one of the city’s most in-demand charter schools.

The K-12 Math, Science & Technology charter in far Northeast Philadelphia got 7,165 applications for 96 available seats. There were so many applicants that parents were discouraged from attending the admissions lottery at the school, according to MaST CEO John Swoyer. Instead, he says, they found out online after the entries were run through random.org.

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Black History 2015: Religions And Slave Trade Killings In The 1800’s - Part 4a of 9

Black History 2015: Religions And Slave Trade Killings In The 1800’s - Part 4a of 9

Many students and parents are wondering if true American History correctly portrays Black History. If so, they will discover that an earlier generation of evangelical priests, elders, reverends, and yes, preachers, actually had supported slavery in both the North and South during the early eighteenth century.  And this fact has had a strongly effected all discussions about religion and slave trade killings in the 1800’s.

Was there racism, cultism, or over-righteousness involving any religious community before, during, or after the civil war?  If so, how does this compare with religious tolerance today such as child sex abuse and the prohibiting of free exercise of religion?

Research reveals that many faith-based groups and faith-based attitudes affected the state government laws that were used to keep blacks as slaves in the 1800’s.  And there were many popular religions which led a church governmental authority where members followed their own laws. 

Using the scriptures, many national and international clergymen began to defend the institution of slavery, invoking a Christian hierarchy in which slaves were bound to obey their masters. 

What were some of the more prominent national and international religious groups existing and holding its own form of scripture as well as governmental authority during the slave trade?   

Catholicism's supreme leader directed members to use scripture other than the King James Version.   The Baptist spiritual leaders used scripture to baptize believers as a public symbol of a new start by immersing them in water.   The Methodists used scripture as a denomination that grew out of the teachings of John Wesley.

And the Presbyterians used scripture to form a group that was born out of the Welsh Methodist revival and the preaching of Howell Harris Howell and Daniel Rowland Daniel promoting the early Christian church.   In addition, even the Jewish leadership as well as the Moslems - all of these groups had officers who were appointed by a religious governing body- used scripture and attitude to reflect their own leadership during the 1800’s.

Black History facts show that as late as 1800 most slaves brought into the U.S. from all over had not been converted from popular Muslim beliefs to Judaism or Christian beliefs.

Therefore, for many slaveholders, keeping religion involved in the dominance, helped to promote Judaism, Christianity, and Islam more in conflict with each other during slavery. This religious conflict was becoming a force to be reckoned with if anyone wanted to stop slavery. 

At times black Christianity was used as a way to validate slave revolts against white Christianity. Because of constant slave revolts independent Black churches arose.

And the in-fighting of each governing group, black or white, made it easier to ignore the wrong of slavery altogether.  

The leaders of many mainstream churches had their own interest in mind when trying to influence governments. Meanwhile, some who believed in the Torah, Koran, Old and New Testaments did use faith as a means to avoid participation in slavery. 

There were many Jewish, Muslim, and Christian believers in the 1800’s who stood against slavery. It’s curious how many religious organizations were in existence during the slave trade killings of Blacks and extremely poor Whites during the American civil war who believed and practiced religious pluralism as a means to end slavery. 

There was also the option to come all together in peace and friendship. And it seems that many individuals chose that option.  More Black History lessons should be about them.  To be continued…  

NJ NAACP Official Seeks Public’s Help Finding Suspect In Son’s Murder

NJ NAACP Official Seeks Public’s Help Finding Suspect In Son’s Murder

 

Wilfredo Rojas holding a photo of himself and his son.


PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – Philadelphia police have identified a suspect in the January killing of the son of a Gloucester County NAACP official.

Wilfredo Rojas is one of the Vice Presidents of the NAACP of Gloucester County, New Jersey. The self-described community activist spent more than two decades working in Philadelphia prisons as a social worker.

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Pa. Attorney General Kane Says Judge Should Be Taken Off Her Case

Pa. Attorney General Kane Says Judge Should Be Taken Off Her Case

 

Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Lawyers for Pennsylvania’s attorney general say the judge who supervised a grand jury that’s recommended charges against her should be removed from any future proceedings in the matter.

Attorney General Kathleen Kane’s legal team argued in a filing with the state Supreme Court on Monday that Montgomery County Judge William Carpenter has demonstrated personal animosity toward her.

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CDC And State Health Officials Confirm Suspected Case Of Measles At Princeton University

CDC And State Health Officials Confirm Suspected Case Of Measles At Princeton University

PRINCETON, N.J., (CBS) – Princeton University says the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the New Jersey Department of Health have confirmed a suspected case of measles at the university after additional review of laboratory tests.

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Black History 2015: Religions And Slave Trade Killings In The 1800’s, Part 3 of 9

Black History 2015: Religions And Slave Trade Killings In The 1800’s, Part 3 of 9

 

Perhaps students should learn about more Spiritual-minded people like Joseph Smith, 1823, a white man, a devout Mormon Christian Latter Saints leader of a faith group, who believed that he was appointed by Almighty Jehovah God to preach door to door about the kingdom of God coming, and how a One Hundred and Forty-Four Thousand Faithful and Discreet Slave class of anointed followers -human beings not angels -would rule over Earth.  Smith and his followers desired a Zion paradise on Earth and in heaven.

Or what about Charles Taze Russell, a white man, also a devout Christian, the founder of the Christian Jehovah’s Witnesses, a plagiarist leader, who used the thoughts of the group “Latter Saints,” representing the Jehovah’s Witnesses and telling followers that he was the leader of his own original work. 

Interestingly, Joseph Smith was not known on record to hope that people of color would be destroyed by God almighty one day soon. However, according to records written by Charles Taze Russell, or Pastor Russell, -who was an American prominent early 20th century Christian restorationist minister from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as well as founder of what is known as the Bible Student movement- he created a scandal due to his bigoted philosophy about Blacks, Jews, Muslims, and American Indians and also all individuals who did not accept his views of his own unfulfilled prophecy.

Youngsters who are trying to prepare themselves for public life, the chapel, as well as what they desire to be when they grow up will continue to be confused about what role history played in setting the standard  for pop culture today.

What should they be told of Black History now?  Well, what contribution or legacy, if any at all, will kids create now for our state?  What is true history about African Americans, White Americans, Native Americans, or any other American?

Students need to find the truth to questions dealing with the ‘who was who’ in U.S. history

Straight-up, should the truth about American history be told to children by their parents that American history is highly Unusual, Unbalanced or plain Un-American?  Did it really take diversity to help save African Americans or did they get the job of freedom done all by them? 

If the student take a much closer look at history and religion in America, especially Black History he or she will discover that often times kids are told that God blesses the child who helps himself/herself.  Or did Chaplains create this illusion only so that they could help themselves without god’s help to what no human being was supposed to have?

Or does history through the eyes of what occurred toward Blacks show that going to the chapel on any given day of the week has little to do with anyone being guided by the power of assistance? I mean to say, what assistance are we talking about in history?

Public school teachers are well equipped to instruct students about past Nations like the Black Seminoles.  There were former Black runaways eventually bonding with American Indian survivors of local wars.  They created a new ethnic group. 

Black Indians, as this is their truest title, descends through their eldest fathers and mothers.

Students may learn how this might apply to them, and even the United Nations today, and their relationship with our own land. To be continued…