U.N. Warns Food Shortage Will Continue Up To 2010 AHN London, England - United Nations World Food Program (WFP) head Josette Sheeran warns that the agency is already taking precautionary measures by rationing food aid to address worldwide food shortage and the increasing commodity prices which is ex...

U.N. Warns Food Shortage Will Continue Up To 2010 AHN London, England - United Nations World Food Program (WFP) head Josette Sheeran warns that the agency is already taking precautionary measures by rationing food aid to address worldwide food shortage and the increasing commodity prices which is ex...

Hey all, I just want to being you up to date with what we've been doing lately. Melissa has been pressure canning chicken breast and pinto beans this past week. If you don't know what that means it's basically pressure cooking food, but in bottles. I grew up with my mom doing this to put food by, bu...

As I mentioned elsewhere, it was too cold for pins, and so some impromptu steel stages were set up. The first one was pretty simple, just five steel plate targets set up at varying heights and distances, but all around ten yards out or so; one shot per target, three runs, keep your best time. The th...

...it's Tucson. In Arizona. In my country. A car screeches into a suburban driveway, four dudes un-ass the vehicle, including one with a rifle, and they charge the house. In broad daylight. In suburbia. In my country. Luckily for the homeowner, who was not carrying a gun, he managed to get inside an...

If your disaster preparedness plan consists of throwing a can of Beanie Weenies into your ALICE pack, grabbing your SKS, strapping a colander to your face, and setting off to play Humungous, Lord of the Wasteland, in the local park, then you might want to rethink it. Even assuming you could live off...

The first three parts of this series are here, here and here. Last week, we began an interview with senior public health figures, the reveres at Effect Measure, and began a discussion about public health infrastructure. Today, we finish the interview, and with events this week (including salmonella ...

While we're still waiting for our electronic broadsheet (hell, we'll settle for a tabloid) it looks like folks in Toshima will be seeing quite a bit of the e-paper as they hit the streets of this Tokyo ward. In a test conducted by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, the signage has ...

I had never read Kahr40's blog before this morning, so I was totally caught off guard by this kick in the gut. Carry your damn guns, people!...

Breda: Women often can't tell the difference between being polite and being submissive. We believe we have to be accommodating to perfect strangers. We fear being thought of as anything other than "nice." We apologize too much and for no good reason. We are the first to offer up that fake smile, the...