Napping benefits heart health
From Newsmax Could grabbing a nap once or twice a week help you live longer? A new study reports the occasional nap appears to cut in half people’s risk of heart attack, strokes, and heart disease, compared with folks who…
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Support the Caribbean Equine Relief Effort in the Bahamas
From Horse Canada The Caribbean Equine Relief Fund is collecting donations to help provide supplies for horse owners in the wake of Hurricane Dorian, in the Bahamas The Bahamian government reports that in the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian approximately 2,500…
Humberto strengthens near the Northwest Bahamas
By Bob Henson From Weather Underground Just two weeks after a catastrophic hit from Hurricane Dorian, the Northwest Bahamas are dealing with Tropical Storm Humberto. The slowly intensifying storm was located just 30 miles east-northeast of Great Abaco Island at…
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Oceans Economy, Blue Bio Trade & Climate Change: Building economic diversification & resilience
From OECS Intervention by Dr. Didacus Jules, Director General of the Organisation of East Caribbean Sates (OECS) at the UN Trade Forum held in Geneva, Switzerland from 09-13 September, 2019. “The Caribbean region has become a veritable graveyard for such…
IMF Trade / Georgieva / Argentina
The IMF Board is set to act on placing a new Managing Director at the head of the Fund in coming weeks, spokesman Gerry Rice told reporters Thursday in Washington, DC. The Executive Board will interview World Bank CEO Kristalina…
White House: Osama Bin Laden’s son Hamza is dead
From Newsmax The White House announced Saturday that Hamza bin Laden , the son of the late al-Qaida leader who had become an increasingly prominent figure in the terrorist organization, was killed in a U.S. counterterrorism operation in the Afghanistan-Pakistan…
Thieves steal $5M gold toilet from Britain’s Blenheim Palace
From Newsmax A unique solid gold toilet that was part of an art exhibit was stolen early Saturday from the magnificent home in England where British wartime leader Winston Churchill was born. The toilet, valued at roughly 1 million pounds…
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Have we come that far?
By Paul McGowan From PS Audio Reader Ted Williams sent me the following photo of a 1959 Johnny Mathis album sleeve from Columbia Records. I love it. It’s educational and must have been a great tool for Columbia to sell…
Destinations of the week
The 3 best places to travel in September 2019 By Mark Abadi From Business Insider Business Insider has spent a year finding the best best places to visit in the world for each month of the year. Now, we’ve taken…
Endurance athlete attempts to swim between Caribbean islands
By Mark Gleeson From Reuters CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – Endurance athlete Cameron Bellamy will attempt an unprecedented 150km swim from Barbados to St Lucia on Friday in an effort to complete the longest ocean swim in history. The attempt, which…
