“If you have any gift cards, spend them as quickly as you possibly can and don’t purchase any more!”-James E. Dion, Dionco Incorprated
MotleyFool: Real Estate Investment Trusts to benefit from Lampert’s bid
Fox News: Dying Kmarts killing off Little Caesars pizza!!!
Washington Examiner: Taxpayers now own Sears-Kmart employee retirement plan!
Japan Times: The nicest Sears you’ll ever […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete (tip-o-the iceberg, seriously this isn’t the half-of-it!) list of U.S. drugs related crimes and oddities for the month of August 2018:
CNBC: Antianxiety drugs — often more deadly than opioids — are fueling the next drug crisis
In Korea (south) the U.S. Air Force’s 51st Fighter Wing has started a Food First! program to help with its Drug Demand Reduction […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of announced United States food supply shutdowns, outbreaks and recalls for the month of August, 2018:
WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification
CBS News: More Americans struggling to buy food, especially those with kids
In Korea (south) the U.S. Air Force’s 51st Fighter Wing has started a Food First! program to help with its Drug Demand Reduction operations. It’s partly […] Continue Reading…
17DEC2018 (08:55 UTC-07 Tango 06) 26 Azar 1397/08 Rabi ‘ath-Thani 1440/11 Jia-Zi 4716
Millions of U.S. citizens have family and friends employed by the U.S. military and deployed to other countries, now imagine millions of ‘care packages’ being sent to those military personnel. I remember guys getting books, music cassette tapes (remember those?), cookies, candy, but I […] Continue Reading…
EverythingLubbock.com: woman waiting on reimbursement from Sears two months later
CNBC: Vacant Sears stores to be demolished due to lack of active retailers
Ace Hardware, Centerbridge consider bid for Sears’ home services
New York Post: Sears says it’ll cost them $442M to shutdown 142 stores
Business Insider: After giving execs $25M in bonuses Sears now slashing severance for laid off employees!
Chicago Business Journal: Sears […] Continue Reading…
29NOV2018 (02:34 UTC-07 Tango 06) 08 Azar 1397/20 Rabi ‘al-Awwal 1440/22 Gui-Hai 4716
A volunteer with the North Valley Animal Rescue Group, cuddles a dog being housed in a temporary shelter at the municipal airport in Chico, California. California Army National Guard photo by Specialist Amy Carle, 18NOV2018.“As awful as this situation is, it has […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of seismic/disaster reports from around the Pacific Ring of Fire, 26OCT2018 through to 28NOV2018.
National Geographic: Strange waves rippled around the world, and nobody knows why
Decoded Science: Earthquakes in Chile, the Philippines and California
Nature.com: World’s first automated volcano forecaster makes a prediction
And here’s more proof humans are not the cause of catastrophic climate change;
Science Magazine: Why 536 was ‘the worst […] Continue Reading…
One of the first ship kits I built was the 1:600 scale Aurora Moscow helicopter anti-submarine ship (not to be confused with the Moskva of the Atlant class of missile cruisers, aka Project 1164). I also built the Airfix version, and there are differences.
Back then it was the final two decades of the Cold […] Continue Reading…
“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”-George Orwell (aka Eric Arthur Blair)
Disappearing Students Syndrome (DSS): A phrase created by me to describe a phenomenon taking place across the United States, affecting both privately and publicly funded schools, from Kindergarten all the way through University levels.
Google […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of U.S. Mining/Industrial/Logistics job loss/shutdown announcements made in September 2018.
WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification
ALASKA: Alyeska Pipeline Service Company warned “Many jobs will be modified, and some eliminated, at Alyeska and in some contractor companies.”
ARIZONA: SCA tissue factory in Bellemont closing, 120 jobs lost
ARKANSAS: Iconic Acme Brick Company shutting down a factory in Fort Smith, blaming the […] Continue Reading…