With Detroit deemed the Motor City, you can be sure that there are quite a few test drives going on, in and around the city. Unfortunately, motor vehicles are not the only things being tested. Too many professing Christians are falling for the lie, that in order to know if you’re truly compatible with someone, […]

It is not often that a game company follows up a sexy Devil May Cry-inspired action fest with a highly intricate interstellar battleship sim, but this is one of the reasons why many players love Platinum Games. The Osaka-based company’s latest offering, Infinite Space offers what many old school anime fans have been longing for–a […]

The Utah “Badge of Honor” … A GREAT BIG YES button proudly displayed where all can see it! I’m not sure how long one needs to “live” in Utah to become a Utahan, but I’m pretty sure I can count myself among them with my 33 years [wonderful years BTW] that I’ve lived here. And […]

Semyon Varlamov gave up four goals to the Tampa Bay Lightning in the Capitals’ 5:4 win in Washington on Thursday night.  My colleague Dmitry Shumin from Sovetsky Sport and I caught up with the young Russian goaltender to get his thoughts on his game: “It very difficult to play when I only had 3 games […]

  The reputation of MTV’s hottest reality TV stars is reportedly keeping the Jersey Shore cast out many of Miami’s hottest nightclubs. According to RadarOnline some of South Beach’s most popular clubs and bars are forbidding the guidos and guidettes access.  Apparently the exposure on MTV’s hugely popular reality show isn’t worth the trouble. During […]

Sunny and warm in Phoenix – it’s spring! Off I went to try a new hike – one that I knew was a little tougher that the ones I’m used to – Shaw Butte. Last time, I stopped at the bottom of the uphill climb – another day, I said. This time, I thought I’d […]

Discussions around town in the offices and coffee shops are abuzz with ideas and suggestions for woman’s self defense in the wake of last week’s high profile rape and murder of seventeen year old Chelsea King. Fox5 is re-running Chrissy Russo’s three part series on Krav Maga unarmed self defense, writers at the U.T. with […]

Exploring Spain and Portugal Part IX – From Sevilla to Salema (photo slideshow) Southwest offering $49 deals within California, more Southwest summer deals April 15.  It’s the day many Americans dread as it is time to pay your taxes.  This evening, the Post Office will be busy with lines of people waiting until the last […]

Parents of children with special needs want information. In AISD, the district wants to get information to parents. What better way to meet both needs than to hold a monthly gathering where information is offered in workshop format with time for Q & A on topics that are most essential to parents of children with […]

Anyone expecting a “purpose-built” 2011 Ford Police Interceptor to be a new-from-the-ground-up will be disappointed to see that it’s a modified-to-purpose Ford Taurus. So purpose-built takes on the meaning of “it’s not just a Taurus with a light bar.” The changes to the standard Taurus read in part like the Jake and Elwood Blues police […]

Today is Census Day and Color of Change is reminding Los Angeles residents and those across the US to turn in census forms as a simple way to bring thousands of dollars to communities, but the organization asks, “Did you notice that the census uses the word “Negro” as one of the descriptions for Black […]

Forty-seven European countries agreed on March 31 to the most wide-reaching accord in history preventing discrimination based on sexual orientation, according to ILGA Europe. Photo:  asbarez.com The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe unanimously voted to adopt measures to protect LGBT citizens accross Europe from discrimination from hate crimes and hate speech, freedom […]

According to Jim Jenkins, today’s workforce has a broader representation of generations than ever before. As each of the four generations asserts its needs and desires, organizations are facing the challenge of helping members work more collaboratively, ultimately improving productivity. The elders of our workforce are the Veterans, traditionalists or silents who were born between […]

Each year, Florida schools spend millions of dollars on fresh produce to serve in their cafeterias. Each year millions of those dollars goes to farmers, marketers and trucking companies that are not in the state of Florida. While each year in the state of Florida, field crops (including corn, cotton, hay, peanuts, soybeans, sugarcane and […]

R5 Productions upcoming shows March 24th – Basia Balut / Meg Baird @ The Chapel March 28th – Dillinger Escape Plan @ The Church March/27 The Morning Of / Sparks The Rescue / Ian Walsh @ The Barbary March 30th – Japandroids / Love Is All The G /@ The Barbary March 31st – Fanfarlo […]

Yesterday, in the first of six meetings, Toledo Mayor Mike Bell discussed with concerned citizens his “back up plan” should the city be unable to vote a budget in that will close the $48million dollar hole the city currently suffers. Bell’s secondary plan is to start laying off everyone. “Depending on how large [the deficit] […]

By definition, a bond is an attractive force that holds two structures together. In the case of parent-child relationships, the attachment is of emotional nature rather than physical, but still requires bonding to foster that attractive force. It is fair to assume that a significant portion of that force is instinctual. Parents instinctively want to meet baby’s […]

HBO Sports is presenting a split-site doubleheader when World Championship Boxing: Kelly Pavlik vs. Sergio Martinez and Lucian Bute vs. Edison Miranda live on Saturday, April 17, 2010. The two action packed live title bouts will be aired from two different locations on the same night on April 17 at 10:00 p.m. ET/7:00 p.m. PT. […]

Brokeback Mountain is a thing of beauty, the kind of movie some of us live for. It makes you care so deeply about its central characters that you sometimes physically ache for them. It treats you to stunningly beautiful (if often bleak and lonely) landscapes both geographical and emotional. And very organically–without a speck of preaching […]

(SAN JOSE) Rookie Logan Couture’s goal in the fifth round of a shootout powered the San Jose Sharks to a 3-2 victory over the Phoenix Coyotes in the fourth game between the teams decided in that fashion this season. In their final tuneup before the playoffs, the Sharks hosted a much-improved and playoff-bound Coyotes team. […]

Official: Mine still dangerous, can’t send crews in It’s official: the Upper Big Branch coal mine is still too dangerous to send rescue crews in MONTCOAL, West Virginia — although it was hoped otherwise, continuing high levels of methane gas have made it too dangerous to send in rescue crews to try and get out […]

The angry and hate-filled speech that William Gheen gave in Greenville last weekend accusing SC Senator Lindsey Graham of secretly being gay was no surprise to me, as the Tea Party is full of this kind of immature thinking. I was happy to see the attention it got, however, as it shows the very real […]

HVR Playtime Maggie, foaled in 1997 had been one of  27+ horses donated to Potomac State College of West Virginia University. The horses were donated in 2003 by Bob and Jewell Evans, of the famous Bob Evans Restaurants chain and Hidden Valley Ranch products for the college’s ” Introduction to Equine Science.” All of the […]

COLUMBUS, Ohio – John Boehner (OH-8), the Minority Leader in the U.S. House, asked the co-chairs of President Obama’s newly-established debt commission Wednesday to open all of its meetings to the public and vote on its final recommendations by October 1, 2010 to give the American people an opportunity to review and react to the […]