Posted By Rida Zaheer Growing shiitake oyster mushrooms for Michael Alt’s family’s restaurant proved to be a tricky operation in snowfall manic Syracuse, NY. Maintaining ideal conditions required a complicated set-up of seemingly endless triggers, humidifiers, fans, dehumidifiers and miscellaneous controls.   At his day job, Alt was making radar technology for the US Department of Defense as a software engi ...

By Riley McAtee This weekend, tennis powerhouses will collide as the Cal women’s tennis team hosts UCLA and USC at Hellman Tennis Complex.   In a clash of top-10 teams, the No. 7 Bears (3-2) will take on No. 2 UCLA at 1:30 p.m. on Friday. The next day, they will play No. 6 USC (7-1) at noon. Last year, Cal went a combined 1-3 against the Bruins and Trojans in the regular season.   “These two games will set ...

 by Rosey  Following the death of her boyfriend about a month ago, country singer Mindy McCready was found dead in her Arkansas home from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. As the investigation into her death continues, and friends and fans alike continue to pay tribute to the late star, we took a look back on McCready's turbulent, troubled and sometimes tremendous life. Private investigator who work ...

By Simon Denyer IMPHAL, India — Tens of thousands of Indian troops are deployed to these remote borderlands, their mission to fight a decades-long armed separatist rebellion. But for years, residents here have alleged that security forces have also waged a separate war of rape and murder of civilians, one they continue with impunity because federal law virtually prohibits the prosecution of soldiers in conf ...

Posted by Faheem Belharvi    Tuesday, February 19, 2013 - According to Daoud Sultanzoy, a former member of the Afghan parliament and political analyst, “The U.S. political climate is such that the administration has to show some sort of good news to justify [the troop exit], and that is dictating what is being shown in terms of progress, even if there isn’t any.” President Obama has repeatedly announced tha ...

Posted by Faheem Belharvi Friday, February 15, 2013 - As US President Barack Obama ponders his second-term foreign policy, he faces jihadists spreading across North Africa, Syria dissolving into chaos, Israelis and Palestinians further apart than ever, Iraq trending toward civil war, Afghanistan mired in corruption and Iran relentlessly accelerating its nuclear program. That may turn out to be the easy stuf ...

Posted by Faheem Belharvi Monday, February 11, 2013 - This year, ‘Kashmir Solidarity Day’ was observed under peculiar circumstances. Recent violations of ceasefire have brought the Kashmir conflict under renewed focus at the international level. This dispute has been on the agenda of the UN for more than six decades, it is indeed an unfulfilled obligation of the UN. The government and people of Pakistan con ...

By Andrew P. Napolitano After stonewalling for more than a year federal judges and ordinary citizens who sought the revelation of its secret legal research justifying the presidential use of drones to kill persons overseas – even Americans – claiming the research was so sensitive and so secret that it could not be revealed without serious consequences, the government sent a summary of its legal memos to an ...