Archives for the month of: June, 2016
“After the rain, it sometimes rains again, and when it does, what else is one to do except just hang?” asks Your Shot member Douglas Gimesy. He
submitted this image of a fruit bat resting in a tree during a rain shower in Melbourne, Australia, its wings wrapped around its body for warmth. Fruit
bats, as their name suggests, eat fruit and play an important environmental role in seed dispersal and pollination
Sales have been falling for more than 20 years in the United States. What’s going on?
Long a staple of the American diet, canned tuna has fallen on hard times.
Last year, canned seafood sales, of which tuna is far and away the leading variety, fell to their lowest level in more than 15 years, according to market research firm Euromonitor. Meanwhile, per capita canned tuna consumption tumbled by nearly 30 percent over the same period, according to data from the USDA.
After a trip to the hospital, a Virginia woman received some shocking news in the mail that she was dead.
Marilyn Mullins, 62, said she was shocked when she received a note from a chaplain at Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital that said she had died.
http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Woman-Leaves-Hospital-Finds-Out-She-Died-382568031.html
Rodney P. Hunt’s 20,000-square-foot mansion sits on a bluff overlooking the Potomac River. It was valued at $24.5 million.
Rodney Hunt once ran RSIS, one of the country’s most successful black-owned contracting firms. Then he faced massive debts, drug charges and bankruptcy proceedings — finally suffering the ultimate reversal of his fortunes.
The enormous mansion in Northern Virginia was built as a monument to Rodney P. Hunt’s success, a trophy estate along the Potomac River to mark his rise from teen lawn mowing hustler to government contracting multimillionaire.
But on Thursday, the home on Chain Bridge Road in McLean — valued at $24.5 million — was auctioned on the steps of the Arlington County courthouse for $7.3 million to an undisclosed buyer in one of the region’s largest foreclosure sales.
Hunt, 55, who had staved off foreclosure for several years amid massive debts, drug charges and bankruptcy proceedings, had finally suffered the ultimate reversal of his fortunes.
For 10 cents a person, people watch planes on the airfield at what was then Washington National Airport.
Last year marked its sixth straight year of record-setting passenger traffic, and that’s a problem.
Reagan National Airport turned 75 this month with much fanfare: a white-tablecloth luncheon. A historic flight. Giveaways and music.
But the biggest gift of all may be for harried fliers: a $1 billion renovation that will include a new concourse for short-hop flights.
More than 23 million passengers used National last year, making it the second-busiest airport in the region, after Baltimore-Washington International Marshall Airport. Last year was its sixth straight year of record-high passenger traffic. And there is little indication it will taper off.
Accidentally leaving a child in a hot car “in fact, can happen to anyone, and we’ve seen it happen to anyone,” said Safe Kids Worldwide chief executive Kate Carr.
The popular, needle-free FluMist influenza vaccine has not protected kids or adults against flu for years and should not be used this coming flu season, experts said Wednesday.
The surprise decision, sure to dismay children and needle-phobes, could also leave pediatricians short of vaccine, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
Ruth Chatman Hammett, Gladys Ware Butler and Bernice Grimes Underwood receive flowers during their 100th birthday celebration
at Washington’s Zion Baptist Church on June 18. A portrait of their friend Leona Barnes, who died last month, is beside them.
The women, who were all born in June or July of 1916, marked their birthdays at a ceremony held at the church they’ve all
attended since childhood. The event also paid tribute to a fourth friend who died in May, two months shy of her 100th birthday.
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