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http://observer.com/2013/12/expe…
Micro-Apartments Could Be Hazardous to Your Mental Health
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https://jonrappoport.wordpress.c…
Washington Post, its new owner, and the CIA: joined at the hip
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ic…
A huge weekend storm has left hundreds of thousands of people across southern Ontario facing a possible dark Christmas, after a thick layer of ice caused power outages and major travel disruptions on roads and in the air.
The storm is still hitting the Maritimes, with freezing rain warnings throughout P.E.I. and most of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. There are also winter storm warnings in effect on Quebec's Gaspé Peninsula, and a freezing rain warning in the Eastern Townships.
The Greater Toronto Area bore the brunt of the storm on Sunday with between 10 and 30 millimetres of ice accumulating on surfaces and trees, and about 228,000 customers still without power early Monday morning.
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford said early Monday morning that the worst is over, and that it will be business as usual at city hall. He has not declared a state of emergency.
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My power's been out for about 30 hours now, with no estimated time for restoration ("prepare for 72 hours without power" is the general status for the city).Ford won't declare a state of emergency because if he does he'll lose more powers to our deputy mayor (now acting mayor), so the fat shit told people to go to hotels if they're cold.
- albums0
The Center for Architecture and Urban Design Los Angeles (CALA)
Logo Design Contest...
Entry fee: $25You can pay them to design their logo. :D
http://www.aialosangeles.org/the…
"...the Center for Architecture and Urban Design in Los Angeles (CALA) is looking for visual thinkers and communicators, artists and designers, to develop a logo as part of their branding effort. The winning logo will best situate the Center as a modern, vibrant and recognizable hub of education and exchange related to the built environment in Los Angeles."
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- http://www.aialosang…
"Just think of the expisure you'll get, plus you get to buy me lunch."prophetone
- pango0
"Al Qaeda: We're sorry..."
whoat?
http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/22/wo…
- dbloc0
sad..
16 year old is brain damaged from smoking "synthetic marijuana"
- What is this iReport shit. CNN is a blog now?nb
- Darwinism®utopian
- yeah cos you were perfect in your teens utopian.inteliboy
- yes I wasutopian
- thank you for posting this dbloc, I've been trying to tell some of the young people about the danger involvedZOOP
- I'll be sharing this story, thank you againZOOP
- where the hell do you even get "synthetic marijuana"?? isn't it easier to just get the real thing?pango
- Depends where you are...nb
- Beeswax0
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-…
Michael Schumacher, ex-F1 champion, critical after ski fall
Michael Schumacher, seven-time Formula 1 world champion, is in a critical condition after a skiing accident, says the French hospital treating him.The 44-year-old German suffered serious brain trauma, was in a coma on arrival and underwent a brain operation.
He was skiing off-piste with his son in the French Alps on Sunday when the accident occurred.
Schumacher was wearing a helmet when he fell and hit his head against a rock, his manager Sabine Kehm said.
Early reports had said his condition was not life-threatening and he reportedly walked away from the accident complaining only of feeling a bit shaken.
Michael Schumacher
Born: 3 January 1969
First GP win: Belgium 1992
Last GP win: China 2006
Races started: 303
Wins: 91 (155 podium finishes)
Championships: 7 (1994, 1995, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004)
The accident took place in the French ski resort of Meribel on Sunday morning.The resort's director, Christophe Gernignon-Lecomte, said Schumacher was attended to by two ski patrollers who requested helicopter evacuation to the nearby valley town of Moutiers.
He was subsequently moved to the bigger facility at Grenoble, in south-east France. His wife Corinna and two children are with him.
"Mr Schumacher was admitted to the University Hospital of Grenoble at 12:40 [11:40 GMT], following a skiing accident which occurred in Meribel in the late morning," the Grenoble hospital said in a statement.
"He suffered a severe head injury with coma on arrival, which required immediate neurosurgical intervention. He remains in a critical situation."
The hospital statement was signed by the facility's neurosurgeon, the professor in charge of its anaesthesia/revival unit, and the hospital's deputy director, reports said.
A hospital official declined to give more details and said more information would be given out on Monday, said Reuters news agency.
Experts say it is likely that his brain began to swell and the urgent surgery was required to relieve the pressure, says the BBC's Hugh Schofield in Paris.
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http://www.independent.co.uk/new…
Sun has 'flipped upside down' as new magnetic cycle begins
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http://www.policestateusa.com/20…
Police to take saliva & blood from drivers at New Year’s drug checkpoints
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Multiple suicide bombings in Russia
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Inside TAO: Documents Reveal Top NSA Hacking Unit
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Woman Accused of Stabbing Beerless Man With Ceramic Squirrel
A South Carolina woman was arrested Wednesday for stabbing her common-law husband in the chest with a ceramic squirrel. His offense? Returning home without beer on Christmas Eve.
Helen Ann Williams, 44, of Charleston, S.C., has been charged with criminal domestic violence of a high and aggravated nature after police responded to a 911 call from the victim. She's also being charged—in the court of public opinion—for decorating her home with ceramic rodents.
According to the police report, Williams' husband was unable to purchase beer early Wednesday morning because stores were closed after midnight. After returning home and informing her of this fact, he began making himself a sandwich. Enraged by the lack of beer on Christmas Eve or perhaps her husband's sandwich-making in the face of disaster, Williams picked up a ceramic squirrel, hit him in the head, and then stabbed him in the chest.
- ukit20
Cash machines robbed with infected USB sticks
