Ambani gets a salary cut
India puts up a population counter (like the US has a debt counter)
Marissa Mayer becomes CEO of Yahoo
Dog saved from drain
Kim Kardashian poses in a tinier bikini
Euro Zone ministers meet - again
US got more golds than any other country in the world at the Olympics
Facebook stock is now half off
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I turned off my subscriptions to all forms of paid spam on all channels - digital, TV, paper et al - that should be newsworthy
This autumn the weather gods cooperated as we took a family trip in the northeast to see six states that qualify or makeup what is known colloquially in America as New England. Mass, Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut and Rhode Island (tiniest state in the union). The outing helped tally up the states we either lived in, visited or have worked in to 47. Guess which three have eluded this intrepid traveling family. Any rate the drive was all in about 1,800 miles and included some memorable geographic wonders or points of interest. Easternmost part of state of Massachusetts being one. Furthest drivable road east in Mass being another. Visit to all Ivy League schools (term harkens to a collegiate athletics conference and generally regarded as elite academic institutes of some repute worldwide) is another random bucket list item of which this trip afforded the chance to knock two more of the list. Dartmouth in Hanover, NH and Brown (and its sister institute the RISD - school f
I have an all-important question.. who exactly is Kim Kardashian? Might have missed on something monumental by not keeping myself abreast of newsworthy females at the other end of the planet.
ReplyDeleteKim Kardashian controls half of all gossip channels and print magazine output. The other half is taken by an entity called Lindsay Lohan. Not sure if either are their real names but the American public has an insatiable appetite for their doings and in so doing have set them on a pedestal.
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