Lives were shattered, memories and dreams destroyed. The personal toll from the tornado may last for years. 56,000 people live in Moore, Oklahoma. A higher power (what ever you believe in) forever changed the lives of the people in that city. Unlike other traumatic events National disasters is the equalizer, because we have no control. Despite all the technological and scientific advances, no […]
The UAE will be the best country to live in, if its Vision 2021 is a success. During Abu Dhabi Sustainability Group’s (ADSG) Hiwar session that took place on Monday in the Capital, three government officials came along to discuss the UAE’s Vision 2021, green growth strategy and the link between them. “The key role […]
If you see something, snap something. Straphangers are exposing slobs who have turned our trains into the New York City schlubway. Scores of Internet photos show slovenly passengers picking their noses, massaging their feet, clipping their toenails and eating smelly food. One cringe-worthy snapshot shows a woman with her pants pulled down and her bare […]
Boldly stating that their new product is the “future of foreplay“, Durex Australia claim that ‘Fundawear’ allows for “touch to be transferred over the internet.” Deploying technology normally used to make a mobile phone vibrate, actuators wired into the under garments are remotely stimulated via a smartphone app, according to videos uploaded to Durex Australia’s […]
When a large company acquires a smaller company , the smaller company often suffers. American Motors Corporation was the smallest manufacturer in the US. Chrysler bought AMC in 1987. Chrysler wanted Jeep. Specifically the new Jeep Grand Cherokee that was in development. Chrysler rebadged the AMC cars into its new Eagle Division. While the Jeep division was thriving, in 1999 Chrysler closed Eagle. There […]
Who remembers WeinerGate and Anthony Wiener? He was an up and coming (no pun here) star within the Democratic party The Congressman from New York career ended after several pictures of his Oscar Meyer Wiener went viral. 2011 wasn’t kind to other elected offices using their dumbphones. A few pictures leveled an Atlanta […]
You gotta love living in America. Where else could Jo Ann Maxwell a Physical Education teacher receive a paycheck, after she was filmed by a student at Linden High School allegedly rummaging and removing items from student backpacks and pockets. Linden, California is an hour southeast of Sacramento. 2000 people call Linden home. For weeks some of the students at the school […]
In Maharashtra’s Mansawali village the story of farmer suicides persists as they continue to get entangled in the debt cycle of Bt cotton cultivation The former Sarpanch of Mansawali village, Ashok Khadase, does not stop counting the honours his village received during his tenure as the village head. Mansawali is located in Hinganghat tehsil of […]
The plan: Light Rail out to the Folsom Outlets. Get a little reading done and a little lunch at the shopping center. Detour 1: Rite Aid on K Streets for breath mints (an omen?) Detour 2: Changing trains on R Street Detour 3: Hasty exit at Watt And the rest of the story. On […]
When I had a child, I swore I wouldn’t be a distracted parent. Then I discovered: Babies are really boring When I first gave birth and brought my baby girl home, I aspired to be the ultimate earth-mother-Gaia-worshipping-priestess from another dimension. Those first few weeks with my child I thought I had transcended all trivialities […]
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