Those ancients were wild and crazy.. Imagine the scene: A naked herd or folks dancing while the sacrifice of animals takes place.. There are smiles and cheers, and hopes that the burning animals wi…
The strange weather phenomenon hit Chelyabinsk, in the Russian Urals, sparking fears the snow was contaminated with toxic materials.
It sure looks beautiful. In a toxic sort of way..
PBS series ‘Food Forward’ centers on one question: How did something as fundamental as food go so fundamentally wrong?
Looks like a good documentary..
I hope the information presented will occur. I want my generation and the one coming after me to make food better, healthier, fresher, and cleaner..
It’s a hope.
LIVE FOREVER. BABY.
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Cars.. Houses.. Things. Things of tangible value.. They are passed down and willed to others after death. Why not Facebook, or even going further, blogs and other social network space! We may not have a tactile ability to touch our Facebook page, but your digital life has become a branch of your existence. Selfies and all..
There’s good news for those who want to forever live online after death: Facebook is about to let more than one billion users to decide who takes over their account when they die..
Sure some may scoff at such news.. Others may deem it another example of our digital and self addicted society . But it makes sense..
There’s a caveat to this story–and perhaps a relief for millions: ABC reports:
Once Facebook is notified someone has died, the profile page will turn into a memorial with “Remembering” listed before the person’s name. The digital heir will be able to change the profile photo, make posts on the page and respond to friend requests.
The one thing off-limits: Private messages. Facebook said a person’s heir will not be able to log in under their identity or see any of their private discussions.
It will be called Facebook Legacy. And it will set into place a concise plan Of action for who represents our memorial page once we are not within an earthly realm..
I have pondered something, though.. If EVPs and VHS tapes can prove ghostly presences as so many believe, how long until these spirits learn to communicate on Facebook.. Perhaps one day when you log into your deceased family’s facebook page, you’ll be greeted by evidence that they were recently there as well.
"What was my wow … I’ve been so fortunate. “I was at the Brandenburg Gate the night the wall came down."
Williams went on to tell a possible whopper at the Gipper’s Ronald Reagan museum in 2008..
The only problem with him standing at the Brandenburg Gate is that he really didn’t. Tom Brokaw did. Williams arrived 12 hours after it came done. But it was a long time ago, right?
I figured six months would be ample time to find the other Williams whoppers ..
The NATIONAL TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER says this:
"A destructive widespread tsunami threat does not exist based on historical earthquake and tsunami data. However, there is the small possibility of a local tsunami that could affect coasts located usually no more than a hundred kilometers from the earthquake epicenter."
Get ready America..
Coors light..
Hoagies..
Cheesteaks with fake meat..
Philly faces.
Mullets and boots.
And the Pope.
All coming to the city of Brotherly Love.
I know for a fact that my Paterno statue post would cause some commentary.. This one being shown here is among the most innocent, a few others detailed some awful things I should do to myself..Unprintable things. Sandusky things..
And you’re right, anonymous, Paterno didn’t do the wretched deeds that others did..
But for some record, I’d like to place a number of news items from the memory hole back into the cyberworld of today:
Penn State’s Rap Sheet Way Longer Than Sandusky Scandal
Why did Penn State hire the president of football-rape-probe-cover-up U?
And we also cannot forget the Freeh report: Freeh Report Slams Joe Paterno
All of this does not matter to some fans, though.. But it matters to me.. Just as any group of highly placed people abusing their rights or the decency of their human presence, it bothers me..
You may have already guessed which ones: Iran, Indonesia, Malaysia and Saudi Arabia prohibit it. And many more in Central Asia.. the theory is that it runs completely opposite to Islam..
Until I saw—quite literally—a black cat walk underneath a ladder this morning, I completely forgot the calender read Friday the 13th..
So for all of those out there with that sick sense of doom lurking behind every bad event, happy day to you all..
In 2004, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC detailed the horror that some people face when they wake up on the 13th when it’s on a Friday.. the fear.. the refusal to even get out of bed! In that report 11 years ago, NAT GEO said that over $800 mil was lost in productivity because of people neglecting to live their normal lives, instead fearing the 13th..
I would imagine that fear is only amplified as time goes on..
For those with triskadekaphobia, it’s going to be a long day.
It’s a tweet that ultimately fell on deaf ears: “#ServicioPublico Infalgan solution of 10 Mg for injection is needed for Vanessa Chacón.” S ent from San Rafael del Piñal, a small town in Venezuela near the border with Colombia, the tweet was sent on behalf of Chacón, 22, who needed the medicine to survive a severe coronary condition. Unfortunately, it’s simply not available there — and isn’t likely to be anytime soon.
Think for a second of the utter horror that many are now feeling in this nation.. Several hundred tweets—at this point—are being posted daily asking for the same help. Oil prices dropped.. an economy crashed.. This nation seems to be teetering on the brink of destruction..
The ECONOMIST is summing up what it calls mismanagement and an oil slump as the main culprits for the decaying social fabric of the nation.. The publication reports,
About this, at least, Mr Rondón is correct. Sixteen years after Hugo Chávez took power in Venezuela, and two years after he died, his “Bolivarian Revolution” faces the gravest threats yet to its survival. The regime is running out of money to import necessities and pay its debts. There are shortages of basic goods, from milk and flour to shampoo and disposable nappies. Queues, often of several hundred people, form each day outside supermarkets. Ten patients of the University Hospital in Caracas died over the Christmas period because of a shortage of heart valves.
Another aspect of the trouble in the nation: Education is at risk of becoming meaningless there as the LATIN AMERICAN HERALD TRIBUNE writes in an editorial:
If something has been evident during 16 years of “socialism of the 21st century” is that education has stopped being a priority, unless the State finds it useful to get its ideology into the heads of citizens.
Evidence of this contempt for education is there for everyone to see: schools and educational centers have collapsed; professors and teachers are poorly paid and poorly prepared; curricular changes eliminated basic subjects, distorted reality and introduced indoctrinating concepts and materials; evaluations and automatic promotions were eliminated, among others.
Meanwhile: Bonds are tumbling..
And as mentioned above: The pharmacy shelves are empty and barren..
Monster hurricanes once plagued New England.. new predictions today that the history of horror may repeat itself.. While Europe was going through the Middle Ages, America’s East Coast was being pummeled by hurricanes at least as intense as Katrina every 40 years or so.. Such storms would be catastrophic if they hit the northeast U.S. today, according to lead author Jeff Donnelly of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution…
Is this simply a plant of a story to mentally prep us for something they know is coming?
WIRED magazine argues the case: How to get Silicon Valley anti-vaxxers to change their minds.. But quick the alternate argument was presented in TRUTHOUT with a piece written by ALEX JAMES, who says the dangers presented by recent revelations about MERCK are much more troubling than anti-vaxxers.
