Category: Lifestyle

Fire departments look to grow to keep up with medical runs

JOHNSON COUNTY, Ind. – The growing senior population is flooding medical calls into Central Indiana fire departments and now some station are looking to expand to keep up. In a medical emergency, every second matters. That puts pressure on White River Township Fire's emergency responders who have two ambulances and 26 square miles to cover. "This fire department needs to

Top 20 Best Wedding Votives, Lanterns & Candelabras

One of the easiest ways to design your wedding inexpensively is with the use of candlelight. The options are endless and candles can be incorporated in many ways with just about any style. From rustic lanterns, to elaborate candelabras, to sleek and classic glass pillars, the options are truly endless. Candle heavy centerpieces are also much easier to design and

Kim Jong-un Attack Imminent? North Korean Defector’s Urgent Warning

A top defector from North Korea is warning the west that “desperate” dictator Kim Jong-un will use nuclear weapons against Britain and the United States unless they “eliminate him first,” the Daily Express reports. Thae Yong-ho, who served as North Korea’s deputy ambassador to the U.K. before defecting to South Korea last year, said world leaders must prepare to deal

Top 10 Best Cheap Dog Beds

As I mentioned in our new puppy checklist post, I recently got a new dog. My older dog didn’t mind sharing most of his toys or his space with the new guy, but there was one thing he refused to share: his dog bed. The older pup is about the laziest dog on the planet, to the point that I

Top 10 Best Glucosamine Joint Supplements for Dogs

Dog owners tend to be very sensitive to changes in their pups. Strange behavior can be an indicator that something is wrong, and we’ll often convince ourselves that the dog never did a certain thing before — as if this suggests that they’ve suffered an injury or are in pain in some way. When it comes to joint pain, though,

Nearly half of US adults infected with genital HPV, CDC reports

NEW YORK — Health officials say nearly half of U.S. adults have caught HPV, a sexually-transmitted bug that can cause cervical cancer and genital warts. About 45 percent of Americans ages 18 to 59 had some form of genital human papillomavirus, according to a report released Thursday that’s the most complete look at how common HPV is among adults. More

Economy: villains of the piece

As the economy shows some signs of recovering from a prolonged low growth patch, there is a need to decipher how the economy plunged into the mess in the first place. This understanding is absolutely essential to sustain the recovery and put the economy on a high growth trajectory. Who better to do this for us than Dr Shahid Amjad

Urgent task for our man in Washington

Having just assumed presidentship of the UN Security Council, earlier this week, the US ambassador to the UN has stated that the Trump administration will try to make efforts to de-escalate tensions between India and Pakistan. This comment follows President Trump’s own conversation with our prime minister alluding to such a possibility. These recent developments also come at a time

Nuclear roulette

A mutually agreed nuclear disarmament treaty between India and Pakistan has never been on the cards and is never likely to be. Both maintain a nuclear arsenal and both have the capacity to deliver nuclear weapons anywhere within the territory of the other. Mutually assured destruction (MAD) is indeed assured. Neither state presents a nuclear threat face to any other

US launches missiles at Assad’s airbase in Syria

PALM BEACH/MOSCOW/BEIRUT: The United States fired cruise missiles on Friday at a Syrian airbase from which President Donald Trump said a deadly chemical weapons attack had been launched, the first direct US assault on the government of Bashar al Assad in six years of civil war. The missile strikes were one step away from clashing with the Russian military, Russia’s

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