Trenton, New Jersey! The New Jersey state capital. I get to work there and it never ceases to amaze me.

First, the people. My biggest complaint about the People of Trenton is that they don’t know to “cross on green.” It would really help traffic patterns and us out-of-town road-ragers if they’d just follow this simple rule. I may send an email to the elementary schools and ask them to teach it. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve almost run over someone walking or biking across the street against the green, or almost got rear-ended for slamming on my brakes to avoid such an accident.

I also don’t understand the litter. For a week I walked by a dirty diaper on the sidewalk. Who does that? People don’t pick up after their dogs, either. It’s gross. On Monday mornings I could probably make some nice money by picking…

Ordinary people are to be asked to make a contribution to an experiment which aims to determine key facts about the nature of the physical universe – reports the New Scientist.

Particle physicists at CERN – the join European experiment famous for the Large Hadron Collider – are conducting an experiment – AEgIS – into whether anti-matter interacts with the gravitational field in the same way as matter.

Most of our universe seems to be made of matter – a mystery in itself because there is no simple explanation why ‘matter’ should outnumber ‘anti-matter’ – and the two forms annihilate one another in a burst of energy when they meet – so it can be difficult to conduct experiments with anti-matter.

Anti-matter particles pair up with matter – so for the electron, the negatively charged particle in our everyday atoms, there is an anti-matter positron, which is a positively charged…

When people sit around and talk about the average 70-year-old person certain things tend to come up in the conversation.  Retirement issues, health concerns, loss of hearing and perhaps even ambition.  For the exceptional pensioner they may talk about vibrancy and youthful appearance despite the age.  One thing is for certain though Paul McCartney does not fit into any group labeled ordinary.  I count my lucky stars that I have now seen this living legend twice and by all reasonable standards he just keeps getting better and better with age.

Let’s face it Paul is a rock and roll icon of the highest order and now into his 7th decade could very easily rest on his laurels and slip most contentedly into obscurity.  The fact that this ground-breaker and might I add billionaire chooses to go out on tour again speak volumes.  One of the most critical things I look…

In recent days and months, there have been numerous cases of identity theft. These cases have been discovered during times of marriage applications and other enormous financial investments. What is not so obvious to the consumer public is that children have credit and are also victims of identity theft.

This situation became real in the life of Olivia McNamara, a freshman at Vanderbilt University who applied for a credit card in order to start her journey as a young adult. Unfortunately, she was declined—twice. Finally, her instincts kicked in and she decided to do some researching on her own to find out the problem with her credit. The result? Someone had stolen her identity and credit when she was 9 years old and racked up $1.5 million in debt. The credit thief also created 42 accounts with her identity.

Olivia is not alone. Eleven-year-old Brianna and eight-year-old Bradley have also…

When we think of arrests, we often have the show “Cops” in our heads. We see police arriving in blue uniforms to an apartment or home where they are to arrest someone for domestic dispute, abuse, drug use, various illegalities, and even gang activity. You think of a policeman telling someone to “put your hands behind your head and walk out slowly,” getting them to come out of the home so as to put handcuffs on their hands and get the supporting policeman to carry the suspect away in the “PD” (Police Department) vehicle, the top vehicle lights blinking blue and red, the policeman’s warning to other drivers to “get out of my way” as he or she travels to the local prison.

Today, however, the rise of the Internet has given way to a new type of criminal—that is, the cybercriminal. He or she is one who spends time…

RECEIVED THIS INFORMATION IN AN EMAIL FROM A FRIEND

I thought this was good safety info to share. Hey you never know!

There was a book called “Gonnif” (which is a Yiddish phrase meaning “thief”) that was published in the 70’s. The author is a reformed cat burglar. He pretty much wrote the same details as the below article. He also said that leaving a bathroom light on all night keeps the bad guys away…because they never know when you might be wide awake and using the bathroom…so they’ll pass your home and go to a dark home to break into.

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Barking dogs? We’ll leave that home alone and go to the quite one next door.

Neighborhood Watch – THIRTEEN THINGS YOUR BURGLAR WON’T TELL YOU

1. Of course I look familiar. I was here just last week cleaning your carpets, painting your shutters, or delivering your new refrigerator.