With the holidays here, everyone is asking “What do you want?” What is on your list? Once you are a parent, you don’t have much on your own list; you are thinking of your kids. What do most parents really want? They want their children to grow up to be happy and fulfilled, as well [...]
Shocking: 39 Kenyans Killed in Dawn Raid
December 21, 2012 | Posted by
TANA RIVER, KENYA: The death toll in the Tana River inter-communal clashes has hit 39. This follows the dawn raid in the area on Friday that also left 20 others injured The victims include 13 children, six women, 11 men and nine attackers, police said emergency service providers said. There are fears the number of [...]
Rodney Garner Leaves UGA For Auburn
December 21, 2012 | Posted by
Rodney Garner has been courted by his alma mater, Auburn, many times over his 15 years as an assistant coach at Georgia. This time, the Tigers got their man. Garner, the assistant head coach, defensive line coach and recruiting coordinator with the Bulldogs, assumes the same position with the Tigers in a move that will [...]
Superfoods vs. Vitamins and Supplements
December 21, 2012 | Posted by
Should we take vitamin and mineral supplements, are they a complete waste of money, do they do more harm than good? These are questions millions of people around the world ask, probably because there are so many conflicting studies. The answer to “Should I take vitamins?” is not a simple yes or no one, says [...]
Africa Has 650 Million Mobile Subscribers; More Than the US or EU
December 21, 2012 | Posted by
Africa’s mobile phone market is now 650 million subscribers strong, reports the World Bank, which means it’s bigger than either the United States or European Union. The number of mobile phones in Africa has grown 40-fold since 2000. Africa’s mobile telecom market is second only to Asia in scale, and it’s growing almost as fast. If current trends [...]
HTC 8S: A reasonably Priced Mobile Phone with Style and Substance
December 20, 2012 | Posted by
We’re not sure if HTC’s One S suffered from middle child syndrome. It certainly shouldn’t have. But if it did, it’s a hindrance the company spared its Windows Phone 8 line. HTC decided two was enough, and who are we to argue? It was back in October that we handled the flagship, but now its smaller, cheaper companion [...]
Samuel L. Jackson Pulls No Punches
December 20, 2012 | Posted by
Samuel L. Jackson does not mince his words. At all. After spending 20 minutes in a room with the actor, who reunites with “Pulp Fiction” director Quentin Tarantino in this month’s “Django Unchained,” I now know exactly how he feels about the lack of awards recognition (so far) for his role in the movie, about M. Night [...]
Rob Parker Survives Gaffe; RG III Cleared to Return
December 20, 2012 | Posted by
Rob Parker, the ESPN analyst who caused a firestorm when he question whether Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III was a “cornball brother” a week ago, did not get fired, as many speculated. Instead, he was suspended for 30 days, ESPN announced Thursday. Meanwhile, the subject of Parker’s misguided comments, Griffin, was cleared to return [...]
France to Algeria: Our Colonial Rule was ‘Brutal and Unfair’
December 20, 2012 | Posted by
Falling short of an apology, President Francois Hollande has acknowledged France’s colonization of Algeria was “brutal and unfair”. “For 132 years, Algeria was subjected to a brutal and unfair system: colonization. I acknowledge the suffering it caused,” Hollande told the Algerian parliament on Thursday on the second and final day of a landmark visit to the North African country. [...]
St Lucia Receives Stamp of Approval from the IMF
December 20, 2012 | Posted by
The St Lucia government has received a stamp of approval from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for its implementation of the controversial new Value Added Tax (VAT) but this will not be enough to sustain the economic growth of the eastern Caribbean nation cautioned the Washington-based institute. Following a visit by an IMF staff team [...]
