There’s a new trend. It’s called competitive yoga. Rajashree and Bikram Choudhury who are the owners of the Bikram yoga studios are also behind the movement, although the couple do not want the two confused and have begun heir own non-profit to promote the idea. Though right now there is a series of competitions which…

I just read about a Somali truck driver who sold his land to pay for a journey out of his hopeless conditions. He traveled through Kenya and Tanzania to Mozambique. There he paid a trafficker $1500 to get him on a ship to Sao Paulo. From Brazil he went to Columbia and then by boat…

It was more than an ordinary drain problem. Certain pipes behind the bathtub had rusted and needed to be changed. That required the plumber to go through what he called the crawl space, an opening about a foot high and two feet wide to be able to enter the basement of the complex where all…