Although residents in Western and Northern New York got a brief break from the constant barrage of lake effect snow yesterday, authorities are warning that there’s even more heavy snow to come. Areas like Buffalo and Watertown are already so buried by lake effect snow that many homeowners just see a wall of snow when […]
Read MoreWhen Benny and Rafi Fine, two brothers who are comedians, writers and video producers, showed today’s youth the photography equipment of yesterday, hilarity naturally ensued. The funny new video “Kids React to Old Cameras” delivers exactly what its title promises — kids reacting to a Canon Sure Shot 85 Zoom Camera from 1998, an old […]
Read MoreThe past decades have been about empowering women in the workplace, ensuring that they get paid the same as men for equal work. That doesn’t always happen, so some have ventured into their entrepreneurship. Many local woman owned businesses are thriving, but in this tricky economy, even the bosses are finding it hard to retire. […]
Read MoreSlang terms come and go, but when the linguaphiles at Oxford Dictionaries, run by Oxford University Press, name one as the “Word of the Year,” it could indicate some longevity rather than a trend. This year’s word, according to the Oxford Dictionaries blog, is “vape” — which refers to both the act of puffing on […]
Read MoreOne of the many challenges facing veterans in modern American society is finding safe and affordable housing. Because of this difficulty, combined with prevalent rates of mental, emotional and physical trauma, many returning servicemen and women have found themselves living on the streets or bouncing from shelter to shelter. Fortunately, a number of organizations in […]
Read MoreWhat happens when you take a popular hip-hop artist and a furniture designing competition, mix them together, and turn them into a reality TV show? You end up with Spike TV’s newest series, “Framework,” which premiers on January 6 and features Common, an artist and actor who is well known on the hip-hop scene. According […]
Read MoreCash may no longer be king by the time 2019 rolls around. It was only a few years ago that the idea of paying for items at the checkout counter with your phones seemed like something straight out of a science fiction movie, or a technology pipe dream. However, according to point-of-sale industry experts, that […]
Read MoreHealthCare.gov is open for business once again, although right now you can only window-shop. A reconfigured version of the Affordable Healthcare Act’s website went live Sunday night. It has been retooled to increase user-friendliness, after last year’s notoriously rocky start, which required users to fill out an extensive questionnaire on the frequently crashing website. New […]
Read MoreWhat if you looked at your watch, and instead of learning that it was a quarter to seven, you saw that it was pizza o’clock? Thanks to the Domino’s Tracker smartwatch app, you now can.The app is Domino’s first foray into the wearable technology market, and is exclusively available on the Pebble smartwatch right now. […]
Read MoreActress, Miranda Cosgrove, best known as Nickelodeon’s iCarly, recently attended court accompanied by her mother in order to file a new $2.5 million lawsuit against the tour bus drivers involved in her August 2011 car crash accident. Cosgrove believes the 2011 accident may have permanently ruined her career. In legal documents submitted to the court, […]
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