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• Internet Outages: Worldwide

  By Ecantados on July 1, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  http://www.outageanalyzer.com/ If you are following the story of Ethernet Internet cables being cut in California, here’s some more that happening.  Some could be simple equipment failure and others like in California, vandalism or terrorism, depending on how you view it.

• Whispering Taste

  By Ecantados on June 20, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  not forgotten, never forgotten, misplaced in childhood toys, tastes, memories, dreams, accidently invoked a spell woven as my mouth waters, throat swallows the sweet taste of a thin wafer, spread with cream comes to rest on my tongue like a… Read More ›

• The Decimation of Manufacturing in US Cities

  By Ecantados on May 3, 2015 • ( 10 )

  

  The historic issue with manufacturing and jobs is one of demographics. Factories were built to make products. Housing was built for workers. When homes are built, retail follows and more land is given over to housing and retail. Next comes… Read More ›

• Reporting on quacks and pseudoscience: The problem for journalists

  By Ecantados on April 19, 2015 • ( 7 )

  

  Recently, we raised the question of how political journalists should deal with candidates for president who mouth the quackery of climate change denial. But the problem of how to write about pseudoscience goes much broader. In part that’s because quack science has penetrated… Read More ›

• Songs

  By Ecantados on March 21, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  single, solo songs, sang throaty renditions, vibrating emotional, deeply heartfelt softly sung, molasses slow words written, whispering lines sliced through the words capturing the essence within a degree of meaning sobbing, special scintillating sliding over structured scales no limits lethargically… Read More ›

• Hot Spots Around the World

  By Ecantados on March 9, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  Africa with a million plus Chinese immigrants building roads, start-ups that are taking advantage of countries like Mozambique, among others, in their quest for profit (via bribing officials in some cases) and resources. A good read, one of many for… Read More ›

• Coming with Spring

  By Ecantados on March 9, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  Romantic Dinners as though I didn’t conceive a thought how meeting you would wrought such a storm of emotions, longings in a whirlwind of summer contortions bring new different aspects, proportions the spring brings sun, delicate flowers, the sky darkens… Read More ›

• Serenity of Seasons

  By Ecantados on March 9, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

    The near trees bent by wind, ice and snow bowing to the master, the icy winter beast waiting silently in the cold fastness of the ice for the sun to shed its warming rays once more making the landscape,… Read More ›

• As

  By Ecantados on March 9, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  we move speeding past on parellel paths going as fast as the trains that speed by routed along their way and as far apart divided by land or water flowing swiftly a momentary glance seen through a pane small, befogged… Read More ›

• Is Business Really Investing in the US?

  By Ecantados on February 12, 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  Business deductions, tax credits and tax incentives are legal, but look deeper into How they made it legal, through elected officials and legislation. Buffett wasn’t kidding when he said his secretary paid more in taxes than he did. It  makes… Read More ›