Mounting Damage From Southern California Storm

Fire is a real problem, especially if it rains right after wards. Read about the mounting fire damage in California."December 15, 2008 (by Otto Smyth) According to reports the powerful storm that struck the area is responsible for vehicle accidents in which two people have...

Obama's Pick for Secretary of Education Is Arne Duncan

CNN is reporting that Barack Obama's choice for secretary of education is Arne Duncan, the head of Chicago public schools. It should be noted here that an assessment of Secretary Candidate Duncan's record in...

Fire Hits Anaheim School Under Construction

"A three-alarm fire at Palm Lane Elementary School, which was under construction in Anaheim, tore through 10 classrooms and caused the roof to collapse. Officials peg damage at $2.5 million. Here's an Anaheim Fire Department captain, fighting the blaze, which started at 4...

21st Centrury Classroom in the Hills of Dade City

"Twenty miles north of Tampa, Fla., turning east on Hwy 52, flatwoods of evergreens and monotony give way to rolling hills turned cattle land and valleys that hold December morning mists and wax nostalgic for...

Police Take Oakland Teenager In Custody After Threat

Oakland, CaliforniaOakland Police have taken into custody a teenage male .  Reports say after a search of the teens home seven loaded guns were found including a rifle and a shot gun."Police Take Oakland...

Obama talks on economic recovery in radio address

"In his Youtubed weekly radio address -- you can hear it HERE -- President-elect Obama provides more details about his economic recovery plan. "We need action –- and action now," Mr. Obama says. "That is why I...

It’s Complex to Write Simple These Days - - But Hemingway’s Rules of Writ...

"It’s Complex to Write Simple These Days - - But Hemingway’s Rules of Writing Can Still Work"

SecondLife.com: Are Virtual Worlds the Future of Education?

SecondLife.com, or Second Life, is an interactive "internet-based virtual world", which people enter in the form of a digital "avatar". The visual quality and number of environments, options and opportunities continues to expand- in addition to being a place where people...

Singing is my passion says emminent bollywood singer Ritika Sahney

Ritika Sahney an emminent Bollywood singer was on visit to Mussoorie.She found time to visit the hill station town from her busy schedule.She was in Dehradun to attend walk for aids awareness program along with...

Report of two armed intruders at a Shepparton primary school

 A primary school in the town of Shepparton, Victoria was shut down on Friday when intruders broke into the school at 5:30am.Two men were arrested at Guthrie St Primary School early into the morning. They told police that there was another two men inside the school armed...

Support A Burmese Homegrown Business

The owner of this small internet cafe/ tour office/ traditional documentary making/ computer and english school for kids is working hard to promote traditional Burmese culture to the wider world.Earlier this year...

Soon, a neighbourhood watch to detect and report Internet network problems

Researchers at McCormick School say they have devised a way to detect and report Internet network problems, by using crowd sourcing network monitoring."Washington, November 25 : Researchers at the McCormick School...

Afghans Arrest Schoolgirl Acid Attackers

"They were walking to school in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, a group of teenage girls discussing a test they had coming up, when two men on a motorcycle sprayed them with a strange liquid. Within seconds...

Conversation cops at Queen's

Hardly a day passes these days without Queens' University screwing something new up.  Today I got an email from the school (I am an alumnus) explaining that they hadn't instituted a policy of deploying...

Afghanistan: Acid Attack Affects Attendance at Girls Schools

The acid attack on school girls in the southern Kandahar province on Nov. 12 has affected attendance of students in girls schools in the city of Kandahar. A survey report shows that families of students are...

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