The Most Expensive US Cities for Parking

10 US Cities Where parking Costs Most Bring plenty of money when you go to these cities' central business districts. Here's what you'll pay at parking garages around the US, according to a new survey by Colliers International. No. 10: Seattle Median daily parking rate: $24 No. 7 (tie): San Diego Median daily parking rate: $26 No. 7 (tie): San Francisco Median daily parking rate: $26 No. 7 (tie): Philadelphia Median daily parking rate: $26 No. 5 (tie): Los Angeles Median daily parking rate: $30 No. 5 (tie): Lower Manhattan Median daily parking rate: $30 No. 4: Chicago Median daily parking rate: $32 No. 3: Boston Median daily parking rate: $34 No....

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Google Sets Kill Dates for 7 Services, Including Wave

Wave goodbye to Google Wave and a bunch of others stuff, says Google, listing a full seven services due to sign off permanently over the next few months. Google’s spin: It’s just a little “spring cleaning,” never mind the mess or inconvenience it may cause anyone who bought into this stuff. Then again, it was offered up gratis, so who can complain? Google Wave Logo In the official blog post summing up what’s in store, Google pulls no punches, including a few thrown in reverse: “[We’re] in the process of shutting a number of products which haven’t had the impact we’d hoped for,” admits the company, adding that it’s “integrating others as features into our broader product efforts, and ending several which have shown us a different path...

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How Germans Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Google Street View

MUNICH — The Silicon Valley "spy" opened shop in Germany a year ago to a firestorm of controversy. It was last November when Google launched its panoramic Street View service of 20 German cities, from Leipzig to Stuttgart. In the lead-up, the U.S. company's project was not only met with mistrust but sometimes also hysterical debates that went on for months, touching on everything from who had rights to building facades to how high fencing needed to be to ensure privacy. Cars with mounted cameras used for Google Street View are on displayat the CeBIT computer fair in Hanover on March 2, 2010 Altogether, the questions and concerns amounted to an attempt by Germans to work out a definition of the private sphere in the digital age. The result...

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Rats were Trained as Trackers Landmine in Colombia

BOGOTA - In a laboratory owned by the police, 11 white rats to wait its turn to impress the coach and maybe get a prize. Ilustration Rodents it now has an important role to make the Colombian conflict to be safe. The mice are now being trained to find landmines that have killed and injured hundreds of people each year. Government project that began in 2006 has trained rats to detect the metal used for thousands of landmines that have been used during the conflict with my left. Colombian scientists decided to use a mouse, like a dog that has traditionally been able to detect the presence of landmines, the rats had increased ability to smell it. Another reason is because the body of mice that light, so it will not blow up the mines. As...

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Tradition Cut Finger in Papua, Indonesia

The ceremony cut a finger on the Dani Tribes, Papua Anguish as had been abandoned by people who loved and lost one family member to evening. Tears and feelings of loss is so profound. Sometimes it took so long to return back pain of loss and not infrequently still imprint hearts. Tradition Cut Finger in Papua As with the central highlands of Papua society that symbolizes grief of losing a family member who died not only to weep alone. But there are traditions that are required when there are family members or close relatives such as husband, wife, father, mother, son and brother who died. Tradition is tradition that required cutting a finger. If we look at the tradition of cutting a finger in this tradition must have been present...

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10 Most Dangerous Toys Named

10 most dangerous toys flagged by consumer group ‘That is a weapon,’ watchdog organization’s president says about the Z-Curve Bow BOSTON — A Power Rangers "samurai mega blade" and a Godzilla figure with dagger-like attachments are some of the most dangerous toys lurking in stores this holiday season, according to a consumer watchdog group. Boston-based World Against Toys Causing Harm (WATCH) on Wednesday issued its annual list of the 10 worst children's toys, just in time for the shopping frenzy that typically starts in late November. This pull-toy duck made by Haba for toddlers may look innocent but it has a 33-inch long cord that poses a serious strangulation risk, according to consumer group World Against Toys Causing Harm. On...

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