The USS Gerald R Ford scored a double first less than a week after commissioning, as the nuclear-powered supercarrier launched and recovered a fighter plane for the first time using an electromagnetic catapult. On July 28, an F/A-18F Super Hornet piloted by Commander Jamie Struck was launched from the flight deck by the ElectroMAgnetic Launch…[Read more]

An F/A-18F Super Hornet fighter jet has been shot into the sky during the first-ever launch and recovery using the U.S. Navy’s new electromagnetic catapult system.

The test happened aboard the USS Gerald R. Ford, the Navy’s new $12.9 billion warship, which was commissioned and heavily praised by Donald Trump just a week ago.

The new technology -…[Read more]

Nothing beats cold in the winter like a piping hot cup of ginger tea. With its high levels of Vitamin C, magnesium and other minerals, ginger root is extremely beneficial for health.
Once made into tea, you can add peppermint, honey or lemon to mask the taste of the ginger. Here’s why you should have this soothing beverage.
Relieve nausea
Drinking…[Read more]

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“Time you enjoy wasting i…[Read more]

“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.”
― Dr. Seuss

People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.

If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.

The good you do today will be fo…[Read more]

A British woman had 27 contact lenses on her eye and didn’t know about it, doctors said.

The 67-year-old woman reportedly believed that she was experiencing discomfort in her eye due to dry eye or old age.

“None of us have ever seen this before,” specialist trainee ophthalmologist, Rupal Morjaria, told Optometry Today. “It was such a large mass.…[Read more]

July 15 (UPI) — An Australian senator elected three times to Parliament resigned Saturday after revealing he’d learned was a citizen of New Zealand, and thus ineligible to serve.

Scott Ludlam, 47, a deputy leader of the minority Greens Party, apologized to constituents and said he was previously unaware of his New Zealand heritage. He said his…[Read more]

An estranged wife of a former violin maker in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of destroying 54 violins and 70 bows collectively worth around 105.9 million yen ($950,700) that belonged to him, police said.Midori Kawamiya, a 34-year-old music instrument seller in Tokyo, has admitted to breaking into his home in Nagoya but…[Read more]

SKOWHEGAN, Maine (AP) — A Maine man told a 911 dispatcher he was killing himself and first responders needed “to hurry up” because he was an organ donor.

Skowhegan police Chief David Bucknam says the man was still breathing when first responders arrived Sunday night but he died a few minutes later.

Bucknam says a handgun was found next to the m…[Read more]

A passionate believe in your business and personal objective can make all the difference between success and failure if you aren’t proud of what you are doing,why should anybody else be?
Richard Branson.

The entrepreneur always searches for change,respond to it and exploit it as an opportunity.Peter Drucker.

The business of art is to reveal the…[Read more]

Police in Wyoming never expected a Facebook post about giving money to panhandlers to go viral.

But when the Cheyenne Police Department’s Sunday post was shared more 46,000 times, it sparked about 8,000 comments from across the country — some supportive of the post and others critical.

The post shows a stack of money and a sign that says…[Read more]

An Ohio woman called 911 Thursday after a 5-foot-6-inch boa constrictor she had rescued wrapped itself around her face and began biting her nose.

The victim, a 45-year-old woman of Sheffield Lake, which is about 10 miles west of Cleveland, called authorities after one of the two boa constrictors she rescued the previous day had attacked her. The…[Read more]

A 72-year-old Oklahoma woman refused to let more than a dozen copperhead snakes slither under her home unchecked Friday, using a shotgun, shovel and rake handle to crush and blast the critters to death.

The woman, identified only as Mrs. Newby, was dubbed the “snake killer” after she was spotted with 11 dead reptiles on the ground, neighbor Susan…[Read more]

When trying to make money online, be cautious of scammers and other fraudulent services. Keep the below warnings in mind:

Do not pay any significant initial or up-front fee, deposit, or down payment. For example, a company or individual claiming special computer hardware or marketing material is needed.
Avoid services asking to cash checks o…[Read more]