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01/24/2018 / By Frances Bloomfield

Preparing your family for disaster: How to develop your emergency plan

Formulating an emergency plan: It isn’t always easy to make or pull off, but it’s an absolute must in this world. You never know what will hit you and when, making it all the more important to get your entire family involved in disaster preparedness. Ensure that your family is ready for just about anything […]

07/15/2017 / By Frances Bloomfield

Visa will pay restaurants $10,000 each to stop accepting cash

Visa is offering 50 restaurants and food vendors $10,000 a pop, in addition to upgrading their payment technology. The catch: these businesses can no longer accept cash payments. Dubbed the “Visa Cashless Challenge”, this campaign is part of the credit card giant’s push towards a culture free of countable currency. The $500,000 incentive has been […]

05/19/2017 / By Frances Bloomfield

Under Thai law, Facebook “likes” count as criminal conspiracy

Be careful of what you like on Facebook: You could land in trouble with the law. That was the situation Pol. Sergeant Chakpong Wongchit found himself in earlier in May, reported NationMultimedia.com. According to the publication, the Thai police officer was summoned as a witness after he “liked” a Facebook post that supposedly defamed a […]

05/08/2017 / By Frances Bloomfield

Murder in Baltimore is “out of control” says mayor who has called on FBI for help

The Democrat-run city of Balitmore, Md., has seen better days. At a news briefing, Mayor Catherine Pugh told the press that she went to the FBI’s Baltimore office to sit down with the special agent in charge. The reason for the meeting: to request assistance in bringing down the murder rate of the city. As reported […]

04/09/2017 / By Frances Bloomfield

In plain sight: How to stay hidden during a crisis

Life can throw you a curve ball at any given moment. One minute you’re on a nice evening walk, the next you’re evading a mob of looters or crooked cops hot on your tail. In moments like these the last thing you want is to draw attention to yourself. Staying out of sight is the […]

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