Well it is the last working days till the 8th Annual Edinboro Art and Music Festival kicks off and I have been working like a mad man this year. Not only am I getting my work ready to sell and preping for a 4 hour painting demonstration I am doing festival work this year. I …
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Jabran was ten years old when I gave him the first racial profiling speech. We were engaged in the obligatory back-to-school shopping. He wanted a sweater that had some hip hop insignia. I looked at him and said, “Honey, if I buy you this sweater, NYPD is going to pick yo …
Scientists who have studied a degenerative brain disease in athletes have found the same condition in combat veterans exposed to roadside bombs in Iraq and Afghanistan, concluding that such explosions injure the brain in ways strikingly similar to punishing tackles and knockout p …
Cathy Hutchinson, who lost the use of her limbs after a stroke, has been able to drink coffee using a robotic arm controlled by her thoughts. The 58-year-old used a brain implant to control the robot, the first time she had picked up anything since she was left paralysed nearl …
The violent mugging of a young soldier in Tampa earlier this week has gained national attention. Surveillance video showing the 24-year-old being punched and kicked has been seen by millions. It has been described as "heartbreaking" and "shocking." Police are …
Scientists say a fault-line running across Alaska could cause tsunamis of the same magnitude as the Japanese disaster of March last year. Attention has turned to the Alaskan-Aleutian subduction zone, a region where one of the earth's tectonic plate, carrying the Pacific Ocean, …
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Terrifying details of a Florida killing spree, which left three people dead and two with shocking injuries in February, were released to the public for the first time yesterday. William De Jesus, a 41-year-old Floridian with a history of mental illness, shot and killed a 76-ye …
Sometimes it doesn't pay to do the right thing. Just ask John Chevilott, a former public-works employee in Wayne County, Mich., who earlier this month found a loaded, snubnosed revolver while mowing grass in Detroit's Brightmoor neighborhood, turned it in and was promptly fired.
Sedro-Woolley, Washington, my home town was built around, and on the logging industry in the lower Skagit Valley. The heritage is old and long, and logging is still a part of the industry there today. Albeit, not as rich and lucrative as it was in the late 1880s' and first half o …
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