Articles, tagged with "17 years", page 1
Army Brat: Growing Up Military
High school was officially over and I was adamantly opposed to being affiliated with the military, any longer. Then again, I was adamantly opposed to anything my parents were involved with. This included the military, going to college, and of course, Re...
DEA Pays Informants to Lie, Orlando Entrepreneur Pete Benevides Spends 8 Months in Jail on False Cha
DEA Agent Keith Humphreys ignored signs that his informants were lying to get shorter sentences when they falsely accused businessman Pete Benevides of drug trafficking. With that discovered, all charges have been dropped, and Mr. Benevides has been relea...
Modern Day SMS: Short Code SMS and Bulk SMS
The mobile telecom industry has changed the way the world communicates. The revolution that it had initiated in the 1940s, reached new heights with the invention of the Short Messaging Service some 17 years ago. Since then Short Messaging Service, an easy...
Florida alimony law and child support law changes you need to know
Several changes to alimony and child support have been passed by the Florida Legislature and approved by the Governor, this past year. The Florida alimony law changes are effective as of July 1st, 2010. The Florida child support law changes will not becom...
Tapeworms, cigarettes and air...five of the worst diets of all time.
It's not a big secret that most diets don't work in the long term. That being said at least most of today's popular diets won't kill you. But every once in a while along comes a weight loss method that is not only mind numbingly silly but potentially dead...
Jay Leno vs Conan O'Brien - Which host would you watch?
Many people have been following along for the duration of the Jay Leno vs. Conan O'Brien vs. NBC battle. This "Tonight Show" problem is getting NBC a ton of bad press; they have been scrambling with all their might to censor Americans from seeing what is ...
Jane Austen's Emma
Endowed with wealth, brains, and good looks, Emma Woodhouse (twenty-years old) busies herself with other peoples' lives as she -thinking herself worldly and clever- goes about scheming and conjuring up romantic liaisons. But it will turn out that she's ne...
Texting While Driving In Alarming Growth With Teens
Today, technology seems to make our lives better but we still have to remember that it can also take away our lives if we are not careful. According to studies, almost 75% of all teens in America own a cell phone and they are aware of the danger of textin...