Breaking the story, but burying the lead: VICE News reporting.
The Philippine military has never used the Subic Bay Naval Base, but now looks to station its fighters and frigates there and take advantage of its proximity to the South China Sea.
Source: The Philippines and the US Military May Be Getting Back Together, Thanks to China | VICE News
Wayne “Dick” Whittington is one of my favorite photographers. With his large format Kodak he captured classic Southern California imagery like few others.
Whittington was an early pioneer of commercial photography in Los Angeles and owned one of the largest commercial photography studios in the city.
I was astonished to see the size of the surfboards used back then!
They look like canoes — some look like they’re six inches thick in the middle!
USC has digitized thousands of his photos and posted them online.
This last one is my favorite. How the hell did he get that huge camera out there?!? If I recall correctly, there may have been another adjacent pier at around the time this photo was taken. I think it might have been called “Meier Pier” or something, but I have to check. Otherwise, I don’t know how he got this angle of the beach. Still, it’s a fantastic shot!
So much for that, then.
Fig & Olive has been linked to salmonella outbreaks at two of its restaurants on opposite sides of the country, one in Washington, D.C.’s City Center and another on Melrose Place in West Hollywood.
That’s not good.
Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen received medical attention on Thursday after coughing, pausing and struggling to finish a speech in which she said the U.S. central bank was on track to raise interest rates this year for the first time in nearly a decade.
This is up there with that time President Bush puked at a Japanese state dinner.
Source: Fed’s Yellen gets medical attention after struggling with speech – Yahoo Finance
Looks like Groupon is circling the drain. Again.
Told you so. Twice. They’ve been running on empty since 2011.
NBC Portland reports Groupon cutting 1,100 jobs, shutting down operations in 7 countries
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