People according to the National Audubon Society, two bald eagles have built a nest on an inhabitable island off Staten Island; making it the first time in nearly a hundred years – bald eagles are nesting in New York City. The Captain of a tugboat spotted them early in January as the pair carried materials […]
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Helsinki Airport Launches “Yoga Gate”
If you are at the Helsinki Airport, you might want to visit their 24-hour “Yoga Gate” studio which is located near gate 30. Offering passengers yoga classes that help them relax and take the stress out of travel, this is one of the airport’s initiatives to serve 20 million passengers annually by 2020. Helsinki isn’t the first […]
Diabetes Need Not Limit Dreams and Ambitions
Jason Harmon, CTO and founding partner of Get Real Health, did not allow insulin-dependent diabetes to stand in the way of achieving his childhood dream of flying. He flew his first solo flight at the age of sixteen and earned his private pilot license a year later. Just after his high school graduation, one diagnosis […]
Plane Crashes At Aspen Airport In Western Colorado
Just minutes ago Fox News reported today, January 5, 2014, that a plane has crashed at Aspen Airport in western Colorado, indicating that at least one person was killed according to the authorities. Three people were confirmed as being on the plane according to the Pitkin County Sheriff’s Office. One survivor suffered serious injuries and […]
Travel tales: unswallowing over the sea of China
Travel Tales Chapter One: Jet stream of consciousness Taipei welcomes me with an ice pick in the eye. It’s not a real ice pick. It’s a virtual one, which is worse since I can’t pull it out. I sit patiently and hope it will disappear as quickly as it appeared. I am in a transit […]
Comedy at Niagara
I went to the weekly standup comedy showcase at Niagara, a bar on 7th Street in the East Village (of Manhattan). As I walked in, an overweight Irish comedian named Sean Donnelly was saying, “You know how every house has a junk drawer? You can tell how rich or poor a family is by the […]