Monthly Archives: December 2013

You know you’ve been in Italy too long when…

You know you’ve been in Italy too long when… Continue reading

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Snowden warns of loss of privacy

In a two-minute video recorded in Moscow, where Former US National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden has been granted temporary asylum, he spoke of concerns over surveillance and appeared to draw comparison with the dystopian tale 1984 which described a fictional state which operates widespread surveillance of … Continue reading

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CATCHING UP ON MY FAV TV-SERIES’ EPISODES: TBBT

THE BIG BANG THEORY In the run up to Christmas Day, and right up to Boxing Day today, have found myself once again captivated by the wit and humour of the North american sit-com on CBS, THE BIG BANG THEORY. Am … Continue reading

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Five digital journalism predictions for 2014

Digital storytelling is evolving as the device we’re telling the story on expands and evolves rapidly. Continue reading

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What the Middle East would be like without Christians

What the Middle East would be like without Christians
From Iraq to Syria to Egypt, Christians are under siege. How their faith – including at a Bethlehem church – sustains them and how their decline is altering the region: http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2013/1222/What-the-Middle-East-would-be-like-without-Christians Continue reading

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Mikhail Kalashnikov, Creator of AK-47, Dies at 94

Lt. Gen. Mikhail T. Kalashnikov, the inventor of the AK-47, holding a prototype of his famous assault rifle in 2007. The arms designer credited by the Soviet Union with creating the AK-47, the first in a series of rifles and … Continue reading

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WHEN OUGHT YOU HAVE A COURT ROOM CHRISTMAS PARTY … or other

Review Photo/Kevin Graff The John Hampu Band performs at the annual Christmas party hosted by Alliance Municipal Court Judge Robert G. Lavery on Tuesday. WHEN OUGHT YOU HAVE A CHRISTMAS PARTY IN A COURT ROOM Following the local story, about … Continue reading

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This is in Great Britain, not Saudi Arabia!

M&S TELLS MUSLIM STAFF THEY CAN REFUSE TO SERVE CUSTOMERS BUYING ALCOHOL OR PORK This is in Great Britain, not Saudi Arabia! Marks & Spencers (M&S), an old British firm on the UK’s retailing market, has told its Muslim staff … Continue reading

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Two firms hired to advise Vatican on communications, finance

the way ahead to come into the current fold of media trends and flows

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WISHING ALL MY FRIENDS A MERRY CHRISTMAS

Won’t get the chance to wish each of you all following me on Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Linkedin a Merry Christmas! So here it is: a message en masse…. Be safe and be merry, have a Happy New Year too … Continue reading

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