On January 10, 2014 Rep. Brooks from Indiana asked for and was granted permission to address the United States House of Representative for one minuter regarding emergency management in Indiana. “Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize Indiana’s outstanding first responders and emergency management officials because, when times truly get tough, we rely on them to […]
Officials in Three States Pin Water Woes on Gas Drilling
Norma Fiorentino’s drinking water well was a time bomb. For weeks, workers in her small northeastern Pennsylvania town had been plumbing natural gas deposits from a drilling rig a few hundred yards away. They cracked the earth and pumped in fluids to force the gas out. Somehow, stray gas worked into tiny crevasses in the […]
Queen to relaunch her Royal website with new-look
London, February 12 (ANI): The Queen is set to relaunch her website along with World Wide Web’s creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee at a Buckingham Palace reception. Royal.gov.uk, which hit cyberspace 12 years ago, has had a makeover and will feature more videos, historical documents along with Queen Victoria’s journal, which includes her trial of Alexander […]
Is this the first sign of Winter?
Indiana’s as well as some surrounding states have been experiencing extreme high wind the past couple of days that coupled with falling tempetures has caused for tonight in some areas to be under a our first freeze warning for the season along with the possibility of snow flurries in some areas tonight temptures with tumble […]
Daylight Savings Time Savings Disputed
Now that spring has come we Americans have mostly moved our clocks forward with the change to Daylight Savings Time (DST). Some lawmakers and others have advocated year-round DST in order to save energy. The Wall Street Journal recently reported "Daylight Saving Wastes Energy, Study Says" by Justin Lahart (WSJ Feb. 27, 2008) http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120406767043794825.html. We learn […]
Pakistani lover of Princess of Wales into the scene.
If Pakistan-based doctor Hasnat Khan, described as Diana’s true love, agrees to give evidence in a British court, the real relationship between the Princess of Wales and Dodi Fayed will be revealed to the world. Khan, a heart surgeon with whom the princess had a two-year affair while he was working in London, hails from […]