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A new survey reveals that young people believe being called a “snowflake” could be damaging to their mental health. A new survey by insurance firm Aviva found that 72 percent of 16 to 24-year-olds believe the term “snowflake” is unfairly applied to millennials. 74 percent of respondents took it a step farther, arguing that they believe the use of the label could have a negative effect on young people’s mental health. The study was born out of interest in the term “snowflake generation” which was originally used to describe young people who thought they were unique or special. ......... (snip)...

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Double sonic booms heard over secretive military base Area 51 has sparked claims the CIA is hiding alien technology at the top secret site.Footage has surfaced of two loud thumping sounds as a pair of F-22 fighter jets fly over the secretive base.Conspiracy theorists claim the sonic booms show the CIA is secretly testing alien technology or hypersonic aircraft.A clip posted to YouTube by UFO Seekers, taken in the Nevada desert near where Area 51 is based, shows the F-22 craft cut across the sky at speeds of up to 1,500 mph (2,400 kph).

Unreleased songs recorded by Jimi Hendrix between 1968 and 1970 will be released next year. Experience Hendrix and Legacy Recordings announced Wednesday that they will release Hendrix’s “Both Sides of the Sky” on March 9, 2018. The 13-track album includes 10 songs that have never been released. Hendrix died in 1970 at age 27. The new album is the third volume in a trilogy from the guitar hero’s archive. “Valleys of Neptune” was released in 2010, followed by “People, Hell and Angels,” released in 2013. Eddie Kramer, who worked as recording engineer on every Hendrix album made during the artist’s...

Every December, Americans are reminded of December 7, 1941, when Japan attacked the United States. The sneak attack on Pearl Harbor was the catalyst that led to our involvement in World War II. President Franklin Roosevelt, in asking Congress to declare war against Japan, famously called the December 7th attack “a date which will live in infamy.” That surprise attack was at least 10 years in the making as tensions between America and Japan grew. As Germany was expanding its dominance in Europe during the 1930s, Japan was doing the same in Southeast Asia. The initial American response was “let...

A pelvis bone said to belong to the fourth-century saint who inspired the story of Father Christmas could indeed be from the legend himself, scientists have said. Researchers at the University of Oxford radiocarbon tested the the bone said to be from St Nicholas, and found it dates from the correct historical period. While they cannot categorically prove they are from the Christian saint, the team said the results pinpoint the relic's age to the fourth century AD. This is the period widely believed to have been when St Nicholas died, around 343 AD.

Adam J. MacLeod, associate professor of law at the Jones School of Law (Faulkner University in Montgomery, Alabama), has completely had it with overly sensitive Millennials and Gen Z students who use their "feelings" as supposedly valid arguments against "the wisdom of the ages." If they want to take his classes, he writes in the New Boston Post, they'd better be prepared to use logic. If they don't, he'll make his touchy-feely students "cluck like a chicken." In the column, MacLeod quotes from a speech he recently gave. In it, he truly wipes the floor with the "education" Millennials' and...

Three hunters caught a 17-foot, 132-pound Burmese python in the Florida Everglades in southern Miami-Dade, a record for the program aimed at curbing the proliferation of the non-native species, according to media reports. The giant snake was caught Friday at Big Cypress National Preserve, according to NBC 6 Miami. “That snake could pretty much kill any full-grown man,” said one of the hunters who caught the python, Jason Leon, to NBC 6. “If that snake was alive right now, it would probably take like three of us to be able to control that snake.” It’s so far the largest snake...

One northwest Albuquerque homeowner is fed up with people who are distracted by their phones while they’re behind the wheel. Their wall makes that clear. There is a message along with some serious damage. Drivers heading down the hill on Golf Course near La Orilla in Northwest Albuquerque will spot this message: "Stop texting and driving." Sign telling drivers 'stop texting and driving' has its own damage There were about half a dozen signs of impact along that stretch of Golf Course Road, including one in that sign. There was even a chunk of someone’s tail light embedded into the...

The condition has become so common, ER staff have coined a new term that helps identify it: "scromiting," for "screaming" and "vomiting."A mysterious illness induced by excessive marijuana use can cause bouts of uncontrolled vomiting and debilitating nausea, doctors say. Doctors have only recently begun to recognize the prevalence of Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome (CHS), a condition characterized by chronic cannabis use, cyclic episodes of nausea and vomiting, and the compulsion to take hot baths or showers. The syndrome typically affects just a small portion of the population – heavy, long-term marijuana users. CHS has become so common in the emergency...

The Paris Review editor Lorin Stein resigned on Wednesday, as it was revealed the literary publication was conducting an internal investigation into his alleged inappropriate behavior toward female employees and writers, the New York Times reports. A spokesperson for book publisher Farrar Straus & Giroux told Publisher’s Marketplace that it had also accepted Stein’s resignation on Wednesday afternoon. The Times notes that The Paris Review’s board began an investigation into the conduct of Stein — who had edited the publication since 2010 — in October after he informed them that his name had appeared on a list (entitled “[BAD] MEDIA...

It is that time of year when children are getting their wish lists to Santa. But when a 9-year-old Ohio boy was given the option of receiving a Christmas gift or helping the homeless, he chose to embrace the spirit of holiday giving. Mikah Frye was with his grandmother in Ashland last week when he noticed people wandering the streets in the cold, according to WJW. Grandmother Terry Brant recalled the conversation: "He said, 'Grandma it's so cold outside, what does the homeless people do?' And I said, I don't really know and he said 'well, they're cold' and I...

The French rock star, who died at 74 of lung cancer at his home outside Paris Wednesday, had a career spanning 57 years. He sold more than 100 million albums, but was little known outside his own country. USA Today once called him "the greatest rock star you never heard of." Retrospectives and tributes have poured in, and France's Prime Minister Edouard Philippe paid tribute to Hallyday in Parliament. "Johnny Hallyday had a special place in our country," he said. "We are all emotional this morning. Every French person has a song that comes to mind when they think of...

He knows exactly how many burgers will fit on this grill surface. "34",he states with confidence. Marty Hall can tell you everything about what it takes to run Sid's Diner, all 860 square feet and 32 seats of it. "Its old school. It's an old school diner," he says. But other numbers have long since escaped Hall's comprehension. The big one he does know is '50', 50 years of slingin' hash and diner cooking. Hall explains, "It's really fulfilling to me to be able to fix something and give it to somebody to eat, and they enjoy it." Marty got...

Support is coming in from around the world for a student who was paralyzed in a car accident on his way to Godwin High School in Virginia. Ryan Estrada, 16, says he lost control of his vehicle while trying to avoid a bicyclist on Gayton Road in Henrico County on Nov. 8, according to WTVR. “I remember swerving past the biker and there was another car coming in the lane so I had to swerve back into my lane,” recalls Estrada. “I remember losing control of the wheel, hitting the mailbox and then hitting the tree.” Estrada said two motorists,...

Saxony court officials have decided this week that a Niedersdorf man can now legally sell his miniature gallow souvenirs, despite the fact they have reservations for Angela Merkel and her colleague Sigmar Gabriel on them. In a surprising decision by the Chemnitz judiciary, a citizen has been allowed to sell his miniature versions of the gallows used at the Dresden PEGIDA demonstration on October 12th 2015, reported the Süddeutsche Zeitung on Wednesday. The miniatures are based on the life-sized gallows carried in the protest in 2015, which had signs hanging from the hangman’s nooses with the words, “Reserved for Angela...

Unpadded metal surfaces, blunt knobs and rods, steering columns that impale—and seatbelts weren’t even on the options list. We may think highly of the 1955 Chevrolet, but like all cars of the era, it didn’t think much of its passengers; here we use it as a lens through which to view the state of automobile safety of the time. Yes, 62 years later, things have become much safer.

An increasing number of jihadists active in Syria are fearing for their lives. The result: they want to go back to the Western countries where most of them were born and raised. It must be a major disappointment for many extremist European Muslims who have traveled to Syria in recent years, hoping that they could live in their own version of heaven. Meaning: a horrific, brutal empire in which Islamist extremists can do whatever they please, like raping non-Muslim women, throwing gays from rooftops, and taking non-Muslims as slaves. For a few years, these extremists got what they had dreamed...

SEOUL (Reuters) - Large military drills being carried out by the United States and South Korea and U.S. threats of a preemptive war against Pyongyang have made the outbreak of war on the Korean peninsula “an established fact”, North Korea’s foreign ministry said. See full article at link.

Every Century, there are some Nations or Empires with the most influence and power around the world. The Romans, the British Empire, to America today. Obama once said that the future does not belong to those that slander the prophet of Islam. I sure hope he's wrong, but with the spread of Islam, he could be right. 100 years from now, who do you believe will be the world's power structures? A Christian China? An Islamic Europe? Your thoughts?