A Notre Dame psychology professor spent 10 weeks tracking 110 adults asking half of them to report the number of lies they told each week and the other half to stop lying completely or not to make false statements; however, they could still omit the truth, avoid answering the question, and keep secrets. Anita Kelly had all of the participants take a weekly lie detector test and complete questionnaires about their health…
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August 30, 2012
Investigators have identified the cause of the second fire at Tyler Perry’s studio in Atlanta to be careless smoking. Atlanta Fire Rescue Department’s Capt. Marian McDaniel, said that no criminal charges were pending. The fire broke out on Monday morning on the roof of the building undergoing repairs. Firefighters worked for about an hour to get the fire under control. The structural integrity of the building was not compromised. This was the second blaze…
Allstate released its eighth annual report on traffic accidents for claims submitted from 195 cities filed between January 2009 and December 2010 to determine how likely it was for a driver in those cities to get into an accident. The city ranked with the best drivers for the fifth time is Sioux Falls in S.D., whose drivers are 27.6 percent less likely to get into a crash than the national average. Runners up…
Suffolk County Sheriff’s deputies in Long Island, NY raided the home of Sandra Russell, 26, and Steve McDaniel, 29, earlier this month and arrested them for running a prostitution and drug ring. Instead of paying the prostitutes in cash, the duo paid them in heroin. McDaniel, the mastermind behind the prostitution ring, prepared Russell a list containing rules for running the crime smoothly. He titled the rules “Rules 2 Da…
On any given day, we expose our personal brand to people we may never have an actual conversation with. Whether you are a business owner, in a management position or a stay-home mother, you have a brand. Often we leave the task of ‘brand management’ to the large companies or professional athletes, but branding should be everyone’s concern. Your brand is simply ‘the unwritten, unspoken promise of delivering excellence’. Who…
When you’re the First Lady of the United States, even if you go on a late night talk show to talk about sleep-away camp, parenting tips and Kale chips because you want everyone to have access to information about being healthy, there is always a possibility that politics are going to creep into the conversation, somehow. If the elections are less than 3 months away, it’s almost guaranteed. David Letterman…