Save Money By Buying Gas At Night

"Save Money By Buying Gas At Night photo credit: richpix  The gasoline price gouging has gone on long enough in Vancouver - stations raise the price each morning and drop them later in the day. The average increase is 16-20 cents a gallon surcharge for the...

Indonesia stampede leaves 21 dead

During the pious month of Ramadan Poor Muslims are given donations under a system known as Zakat. Under this system wealthy muslims give a portion of their money to the poor every year.But this year the event turned into a stampede and the crush happened as people waited for...

Video: Witnesses Do Nothing After 78-Year-Old Hit by Car

I unfortunately see a lot of disturbing and outright disgusting stories as a journalist, especially one who spends most of his time online. But this story out of Hartford, Conn. in the States takes the cake....

Travel Alert in Mexico Violence Along The U.S.-Mexico Border has escalated

"The State Department has reissued a travel for Mexico until Oct. 15. The travel alert was set to expire on today, but was extended Monday afternoon due to security "situations" in Mexico. "The Travel Alert for...

End Daylight Saving Time in Florida?

" When homeowners' insurance and property taxes are out of sight, people are losing their homes, crime is on the rise and the State Economy is in crisis, our elected officials are worried about an earth-shattering problem - Daylight Savings Time. Not that it does not merit...

How a Film Triggered a Global Panic

"How a Film Triggered a Global Panic By Henryk M. Broder It is the kind of stunt that has many fearing the worst: Dutch right-wing populist Geert Wilders plans to release a film about Islam. Politicians worldwide are...

Artificial illumination can mess with more than your mental health

Oh, the light! The autumn light! Is there anything more glorious than a November day, awash in the sun's low-slung amber rays?   And yet ... perhaps you feel the dread, too. The looming inkiness that, like the...

Product Shot - Daylight in Studio

"TIPS FOR SHOOTING DAYLIGHT IN STUDIO * The brightness of the light should be even throughout the frame, meaning no falloff of the light. If the light is brighter on one side of the frame and it diminishes on the...

Product Shot - Daylight in Studio

"TIPS FOR SHOOTING DAYLIGHT IN STUDIO * The brightness of the light should be even throughout the frame, meaning no falloff of the light. If the light is brighter on one side of the frame and it diminishes on the other, it will give away the trick. * Use lots of fill...

Want to kill someone? Go to Newark

What is wrong with this Democrat run city? Is this just an isolated problen in Newark? Or is this a problem in all Sanctuary Cities."Let’s say you want to kill someone and would like to get away with it. You want...

Yahoo Buys Ad Company to Fight Google

Yahoo Inc. will buy the remainder of online advertising exchange Right Media for $680 million in stock and cash, Yahoo said on Monday. The portal giant bought a 20 percent stake of Right Media in October for $45 million and now plans to acquire the remaining 80 percent, it...

The Magic Lantern

A masterful addition to the Nelson-Atkins Museum by Steven Holl Architects brightens the landscape of midtown Kansas City and pushes the limits for daylighting exhibition spaces.A series of translucent glass...

Daylight Savings time upsets more than my computer

For those of us mourning an earlier morning (the fact that we'll have to wake to darkness for a while longer), a real eye-opener will be just how much of an effect this early Daylight Savings adjustment will have....

Anatomy of an Everest Summit Bid: Unforeseen Incidents, Varying Weather and J...

With the popular press these days loving to insinuate that climbing Everest in the 21st Century is about as difficult as, say, shoveling your driveway, I thought I would share this excellent narrative by my friend...

Mass Abduction Highlights Iraqi Security Crisis

"Uniformed men traveling in dozens of vehicles snatch more than 100 people from a government ministry . Even by Baghdad standards, it was an incredibly brazen snatch. In broad daylight Tuesday morning, armed men wearing police-commando uniforms kidnapped more than 100 people...

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