Nearly a Week of 112-115 Degree Heat Hampers California

California saw its worst heat wave in 10-years killing some 126-130 people. The heat wave produced record temperatures of 112-115 degrees for nearly a week straight. Most of the deaths occurred with elderly folks and some are wondering if there may have been a way to save more of these people in the next heat wave? Is a new policy needed for heat waves to protect people and elderly?

We're Having A Heat Wave

Here are tips to survive the summer heat when your electricity goes out.

Do Utilities Have An Obligation To Provide Clean Power?

We contract with an electrical utility to supply are homes and businesses with power. Is it reasonable for us to assume that the energy that is supplied and the method used to supply it, is clean and safe? Apparently not!

Mel Gibson Comments Expose the Obvious

Gibson's comments classic Hollywood overkill. If comments said about most groups no big deal would be made out of it. Distortions of Hollywood and media truly gross

Cape Verde Season; A Hurricane Season within a Season

What is the Cape Verde Season? What does it have to do with the Hurricanes in the United States if Cape Verde is in Africa? Well the Cape Verde Hurricane Season as far as we are concerned in the United States is actually a season within

Heat Wave - How to Protect Ourselves from It

To protect your health from increasing heat the U.S. Department of Health And Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued these guidelines

Saving Face in Eastern Cultures - Do Our Diplomats Get It?

The above title may not send me to the forefront of search engines. I am neither a sociologist nor anthropologist. I'll never understand how geologists and forensic paleontologists can tell one rock or bone from another. I did, however, interview the late anthropologist, Dr. Margaret Mead once. She was in Washington, D.C. for a World Health Organization conference when we arranged to meet at her hotel.

Volcanoes in the Philippines

The Philippine Islands host over 22 active volcanoes and many people do not realize this. It should not surprise anyone that each year the Philippines have at least a couple of eruptions; some are large but most are small. Currently the Mayon Volcano looks as if it is going to blow and at the last corruption was in 2001.

How To Hit Back On Oil

The price of oil is breaking records in costs and profits simultaneously as Americans have wakened to new lies and excuses for profiteering gone mad. As the American automobile industry plunges downward on all fronts, nobody seems to be able to figure out why more people are not rushing to the dealership for a shiny new version of the same old thing.

How Sex Offenders Groom Their Victims

A mother revealed her husband played a tickling game with their three-year-old son. The rules of the game was to play with Daddy and have fun—the son was instructed to tickle his father’s nipples while sitting in a straddled position over his father’s nude body from the waist up. The object of this game was, ‘Make daddy laugh.’ Of course, the father could withhold laughing until he experienced the sexual stimulation he desired. When the mother objected to this game, the father admonished her for being jealous of his time with their son.

The Violent Behaviour in Society and Compassion

How many times have you heard this. Find peace within. It is the fundmental of everything I am saying in this article. Finding peace is to relaese the conditioned mind. It is detatchment and therefore peace. Detachment from any ideaology or so called truth.

Tactical Knives: From September 11 To Anyone's Pocket

Fear of mugging and assault has made the latest high tech survival knife the weapon of choice for self protection.

On Lumbers Of Plastics

Plastic containers are recycled to form more efficient and cost-effective wood replacements known as plastic lumbers.

Conversations With God Comes Full Circle with If God Hears Me, I Want an Answer!

I was petrified to tell people that I was receiving answers from God because I thought they would have put me in an insane asylum.