With each New Year comes an abundance of health resolutions. However well intended, many people often fall short of meeting their wellness goals. This year, increase the odds of realizing resolution success with the help of practical and purposeful diet, fitness, self-care and other healthy living products. The marketplace is teeming with ingenious solutions, such […]
Gastro Gifts for Wine and Food Fanatics
For a foodie, eating isn’t just about filling the proverbial tank it’s about stirring the senses and satiating the soul. It’s about sourcing the best ingredients and the perfect way to prepare and present them. For a passionate epicurean, there’s nothing like having the right kitchen tool for the job at hand. For this sect, […]
Killer Kitchenware Gifts and Gets
By Merilee Kern, ‘The Luxe List’ Executive Editor This holiday season give yourself—or the wishful, burgeoning or accomplished master chef in your life—cool tools of the culinary trade. Not only can killer kitchenware products elevate their gourmet meal game, you may just reap the tasty rewards in kind. Consider this crop of tasty kitchen tchotchkes […]
Bangladesh, India: No To Tipaimukh Dam
The Tipaimukh Hydroelectric Project is being constructed near the confluence of Barak and Tuivai rivers, in Manipur, India and within 100km of Bangladesh border. Costing Rs 6,351 crore ($1.35 billion) the 164 meter high dam will have a firm generation capacity of 401.25MW of electricity. While Hydroelectric projects are typically considered greener than other power […]
Peru: Views Towards the Indigenous Protests
On Friday 22nd, Peruvian Congress revoked both controversial legislative decrees 1015 and 1073, that brought about the country’s native communities demonstrations, mainly those at the Northern rainforest. (See previous posts about this: (1,2) Nevertheless, the joy in these communities didn’t last too long after they learned that the government won’t enact this new regulation. Meanwhile, it was also […]
Microsoft Makes the COFEE
We now know as of yesterday that, since June of 2007, law enforcement agencies have been making use of a computer security-bypassing piece of hardware made by Microsoft called COFEE (Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor). The USB thumb drive contains 150 Microsoft programmed special commands to allow the user to decrypt passwords, recover all of […]