Sep 28, 2009 -
50 Emergency Uses for Your Camera Phone by Paul Purcell In an emergency you'll not only need to provide and receive help, but after the event is over, you'll face the prospect of return, repair, and rebuilding. Central to all these activities is communication and documentation. Everything in our society carries a heaping helping of red tape, and disasters are no different.
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Sep 08, 2009 -
When protest is uncool, &c.
By Jay Nordlinger
Friends, I hope you had a good Labor Day Weekend, and aren’t too shaken up by the loss of Van Jones to the administration, and to America. And aren’t you excited to hear President Obama address Congress, and the schoolchildren?
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Aug 17, 2009 -
'Armadillo' Plays Well in Peoria But Is Panned by Drug Dealers
PEORIA, Ill. -- This industrial city, hard hit by the recession, has found a new, low-budget way to fight crime: Park an unmanned, former Brink's truck bristling with video cameras in front of the dwellings of troublemakers.
Police here call it the Armadillo.
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Aug 23, 2008 -
I found this 12 part series in Investor's Business Daily. I will start today by posting the first part, and I'll continue to post the remaining 11 parts; one each day. It is shocking to say the least, and I feel most people are unaware of these facts.
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May 29, 2008 -
The pop star does activism gently, with her baby in tow.
Remember when Madonna, draped in the American flag, appeared in a vamping public service announcement for a nascent organization called Rock the Vote? Now, almost two decades later, Christina Aguilera is kicking off the new campaign for the group, but the one wearing the flag is her infant son, Max Liron Bratman.
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Nov 28, 2007 -
A Southern family member sent this to me this morning. Hope you girls enjoy!
The North and South
The North has Bloomingdale's, the South has Dollar General.
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Sep 24, 2007 -
(With breakout star Joanne heading to Golden Globe after-parties and with the rest of Joanne's week dedicated to an interview with ‘People,’ filming an Almay Cosmetics commercial, and reviewing her hectic schedule with her agent, I, Ms. Prisha Pattershandra took the opportunity to complete the final chapter of ‘Prisha’s Travels’)
“What the hell is she doing?” - “We have to stop this train!” – The air of desperation on the early afternoon train out of Port Town was palpable as some 200 people who boarded the Port Town Bay Transit Authority’s express hoped to avoid the very confrontation they were about to encounter. Stunned and overwhelmed passengers were able to get a full view of the giant lady through the large panoramic windows as the train chugged around a curve in the tracks.
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Apr 05, 2007 -
As with every Kate flashback episode, I have to greet this one with an exaggerated eyeroll and a resounding "Meh."
I hate Kate. But I'll try not to be biased.
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