The coffee is still hot, your neighbour has just started to unleash her gossip girl self and there she is, your 15 year old blonde, curled up on the couch with a smartphone in her hands. “What can possibly be so engrossing”, you ask yourself. “Snapchat”, the neighbour reads your mind. “Pay attention to that”, […]
Detroit Pediatrician Awarded Seat on National Sickle Cell Disease Advisory Committee
After nearly 30 years of leadership in the battle against the chronic disease in Michigan, Dr. Wanda Whitten-Shurney will now play an expanded national role in shaping federal policy and guidelines aimed at lessening the impact of the genetically triggered blood disorder. During her 29 years as a passionate clinician specializing in treating Detroit-area children […]
Japan reacts to latest ISIS murder with anger, calls of revenge, with some going so far as calling for a formal declaration of war
Japan has reacted with anger and defiance to a video appearing to show the beheading of Japanese hostage Kenji Goto by an Islamic State militant. The video comes less than a week after the apparent beheading of another Japanese man, Haruna Yukawa. Mr. Abe called the killing a “heinous act”, adding that Japan would work […]
Members of the Senate Select Intelligence Committee meet in secret “closed door” session on January 12, 2015
According to the Congressional Record on January 12, 2015 members of the Select Committee on Intelligence met in a secret “closed door session” to receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of the intelligence community. What members were discussing in this particular case is unclear. The Committee conducts periodic reviews of intelligence programs […]
High level committee constituted to review short term extension of firing ranges in J&K state
Udhampur, 12 November,(Scoop News)_ A Civil-Military Liaison Conference (CMLC) was held at Nagrota near Jammu on Tuesday \ The conference was chaired by chief minister, Omar Abdullah, and attended by Tara Chand, deputy chief minister ,Lt Gen Sanjiv Chachra, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief (GOC in C) Northern Command , Senior Commanders/ Staff officers of the Northern […]
General who misused his office at West Point, set to formally retire from the U.S.Army, according to “blip” in Congressional Record
I read a small announcement about the retirement of Major General David H. Huntoon Jr. recently in the Congressional Record. “EC-3467. A communication from the Secretary of Defense, transmitting a report on the approved retirement of Major General David H. Huntoon, Jr., United States Army, and his advancement to the grade of lieutenant general […]
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