Month: October 2012

News

New York City Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Video Shows South Ferry and Whitehall Street Station Flooded

The chaos left in Hurricane Sandy’s wake is unprecedented for New York City’s subway system. With large parts of the transportation network shut down by flooding, many are adjusting to a new kind of chaos in the United States’ largest city. Officials are reticent to offer concrete timelines of when services will be restored. This […]

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Science & Technology

Microsoft Debuts Revolutionary Windows 8: How the Innovative New Operating System (OS) Brings Microsoft Into the Tablet/Smartphone Fray

            The debut of Microsoft’s Windows 8 operating system (OS) signals the beginning of Microsoft’s struggle to establish a beachhead in the tablet/smartphone wars currently being waged between rivals Google and Apple. With the new OS comes an entirely new, and revolutionary, interface: one that is both designed to usher […]

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Science & Technology

Hurricane Sandy Expected to Affect Approximately 20% of United States Population

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that approximately 20% of the total population of the U.S., across the eastern coast, will be affected by the destructive force of now-Superstorm Sandy. You can follow the New York Times live-feed of the storm as it passes through New York City by clicking here.

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News

Fighting Breaks Out Between Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar

  Violence between Myanmar’s Buddhists and the Rohingya Muslim ethnic minority has intensified since beginning in May 2012, with 84 deaths and 22,500 people displaced in the latest round of conflict according to the United Nations and state-run newspaper New Light of Myanmar. Crisis Overshadows Reforms The emerging crisis between the Buddhists and ethnic minority […]

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Music
Video

Martin SolveigThe Night Out

Martin Solveig, stage name for Martin Laurent Picandet, is a Parisian house and eurodance DJ who has worked with industry legends like Madonna with whom he collaborated on her most recent album MDNA. Based in Paris, Solveig takes his name after famous French film actress Solveig Dommartin. During his childhood Martin Solveig was trained classically […]

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Film

007 Skyfall

The latest installment in the long-running James Bond series, Skyfall, will be hitting theaters in the United States on November 9. You can view the trailer for the film above, or sample its theme song, Skyfall,  from the British artist Adele, in iTunes.

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Music

The Entrance BandFine Flow

Ambient instrumental track from The Entrance Band. Click here to listen to this track on iTunes.  

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