#ICYMI: Popular Stories in Tech This Week (Week of June 27) (Flipboard Inc)
(Source: Flipboard Inc) Jessica Elsey / July 1, 2016 A man is silhouetted against a video screen with an Facebook logo as he poses with an Samsung S4 smartphone in this photo illustration taken in the...
View ArticleNeighborhoods: African-American history and more in Harlem
By Beth J. Harpaz / The Associated PressNEW YORK — Decades of African-American history have made Harlem one of America’s most famous neighborhoods. It’s also an essential destination for visitors to...
View ArticleTop 10 Conservative Idiots #3-9: 2 Fiery 2 Furious Edition
Top 10 Conservative Idiots #3-9: 2 Fiery 2 Furious Edition Welcome back to the Top 10 Conservative Idiots! Be sure to ask about our special low monthly payment plans and 1.9% APR financing with special...
View ArticleWhy Are Rabbis Throwing Away Their Shot To Speak Truth to Trump?
“We are human beings that live in and with others and through others. History has spoken!” The decision most mainstream American rabbinic organizations made after Charlottesville not to join President...
View ArticleReading Comprehension Worksheet 10
Like anything else at which you'd like to become skilled, reading comprehension requires a little bit of practice. To become a solid reader, one who understands what he or she reads, you'll need to get...
View ArticleHow Pop Culture Tells Women to Shut Up
In the early days of the United States, colonists imported from England a set of regulations that were ostensibly meant to maintain the public peace. They were called, collectively, “common scold”...
View ArticleTeen Picked Up by ICE on His Way to High School Faces Deportation to Honduras
Students at Riverside High School in Durham, North Carolina, are gathering on Capitol Hill today to demand the release of their undocumented classmate, 19-year-old Wildin Acosta. Acosta was detained by...
View ArticleRead The Best July Fourth Oration Ever Given
In 1852, the abolitionist Frederick Douglass delivered what could be considered the best July Fourth oration ever given. In an address to the Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society of Rochester, New York, he...
View ArticleMead High School honor roll
Mead High School has announced its honor roll for the second semester of the 2015-16 school year. Seniors 4.0 GPA Marco Ammatelli, Angela Basinger, Blaine Beeman, Thomas Beeson, Heidi Bonkemeyer, Tyler...
View ArticleNew Year's honours 2016: the full list
The new knights, dames, MBEs and OBEs in the UK and overseas...
View ArticleHomeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson Takes High-School Detention to a New...
By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan Thursday, Jan. 28, was a cold morning in Durham, North Carolina. Wildin David Guillen Acosta went outside to head to school, but never made it. He was thrown to the...
View ArticleAmy Goodman: Honduran student’s detention is senseless
Thursday, Jan. 28, was a cold morning in Durham, North Carolina. Wildin David Guillen Acosta went outside to head to school, but never made it. He was thrown to the ground and arrested by agents from...
View ArticleEven Before Sanctuary Cities, Here's How Black Americans Protected Fugitive...
Abolitionist leaders even established networks to help lead slaves to freedom in Canada. Over the past few days, the national climate has grown increasingly tense over the issue of “sanctuary” cities...
View ArticleCrowdfunded beer pipeline to protect medieval city of Bruges
BRUGES, Belgium (AP) — The idea may have seemed mad, but after all, the beer is called the Madman of Bruges — or Brugse Zot in Dutch. With the help of crowdfunding efforts among some 400 Madman fans,...
View Article10 Facts From History That Turn Gun Control Debate on Its Head
Gun control in the U.S.has historically been a racist’s weapon of choice against revolting slaves and Black militia Growing public consciousness about police brutality has boosted Black opinion on the...
View ArticleAir Force staff sergeant promotion list for August, 2015
The U.S. Air Force's list of airmen promoted to staff sergeant, as released on Aug. 20, 2015. Abadia Christopher Abarawa Emmanuel K Abbott Daniel Patr Abdullah Malizio J Abendroth Marie Ch Abesamis...
View ArticleTeen Picked Up by ICE on His Way to High School Faces Deportation to Honduras
Students at Riverside High School in Durham, North Carolina, are gathering on Capitol Hill today to demand the release of their undocumented classmate, 19-year-old Wildin Acosta. Acosta was detained by...
View ArticleUnderground BEER pipeline is being built in Belgium after brewery...
A Belgian brewery is weeks from turning on the taps of a two-mile beer pipeline, which not only makes bottling easier but will also help ease the city's traffic problem. De Halve Maan has built a pipe...
View ArticleBeer will be flowing underground in Bruges, Belgium
In the small, old Belgian town of Bruges just outside Brussels, a pipeline is being built underground exclusively for beer. The two-mile pipeline, which is expected to be completed this summer, will be...
View ArticleAn Amazing Underground Pipeline That Carries Beer From a Bruges,...
In May 2016 we wrote about an underground pipeline in Bruges, Belgium that would efficiently transfer beer from the historic Brouwerij De Halve Maan brewery to their bottling plant. At that time, they...
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