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Farm tours will educate and entertain the public, says owner The Dispatch ARCADIA | "Im an idiot," is Greg Carpenters usual comeback when asked why he wanted a more than 100-acre farm, 80 animals and the desire to open his rural country way of life to the public for farm experience tours. The self-deprecating quip doesnt come close to the real story of Red Hound Farms and how Carpenter came to own it. Hes not an idiot, but a man with a vision and on a mission to live out a dream he has held s...

The Citroen 2CV and the CEO Geneva Long is the 30-year-old CEO of Bowlus, a luxury RV company. Her passion for travel began with the family Citroen 2CV that she still owns today. Brendan McAleer Language experts generally agree that the first six years of a child’s life are the most formative for learning language. We speak and little ears listen, acquiring meaning, coming to comprehend syntax, sensing nuance. Teaching your child a new language early on is a life-long gift that may take them...

John Long It comes as a sudden newsflash to no one that the WWII generation is rapidly leaving us. We all can look back at friends, relatives, neighbors who proudly served in the biggest war in history but who have now passed on. It doesn’t take much perusing of the obituaries to find others of the Greatest Generation answering their final roll call. This past weekend was especially somber for those of us who admire the survivors of WWII. Two men in particular — neither of...

Intel has launched a Series of Attack Ads against M1 MacBooks   In early February Patently Apple posted a report titled "Intels new CEO has declared War on MacBooks with the M1 Processor by Publishing a first series of Intel Created Comparison Tests." The report noted that the excitement surrounding MacBooks powered by Apples the new M1 processor shocked the industry back in November and more importantly, rocked Intel.   One of the very first tasks that Intels new CEO wanted to tackle was to ...

Life-size models of the Megalodon were built at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington DC, and another at the Western Australian Museum Boola Bardip in Perth. Scientists wanted to determine how big the megalodons actually were. However, the two beasts vary in size - the Smithsonians is 15 metres while the Perth one is 14 metres. Both of these are slightly smaller than the 18 metre depiction which scientists had believed megalodons grew to, which prompted a scientific investigat...

Lake Charles Mayor Nic Hunter sent FEMA a letter Thursday to express his frustration about the ongoing housing challenges in the area.

Popcorn and Inspiration: ‘Meru’: Documentary: The Most Dangerous Himalayan Climb of All The most treacherous mountain on earth, deep in the hinterlands of India’s Garhwal Himalayas, soars 21,850 feet off the deck. Mount Meru carves the sky with a massive, stone replica of a great white shark’s fin. Just like the smaller marine version, it’s a major warning signal. The Shark’s Fin route marked on Mount Meru in “Meru.” (Jimmy Chin/Music Box Films) No mountain has seen more climbi...

Setting up mobile homes after Louisiana storms is slow-going Six months after Hurricane Laura wrecked southwest Louisiana, the Federal Emergency Management Agency still is trying to set up temporary mobile homes for several thousand families who need a place to live, with an estimate the work won’t be complete until more than a year after the storm. John Long, the FEMA official coordinating recovery work in Louisiana, said about 1,250 families are in the temporary housing units, typically a r...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Six months after Hurricane Laura wrecked southwest Louisiana,...

FEMA hurricane recovery: ‘We will be here for as long as it takes’ FEMA hurricane recovery: ‘We are here to help as long as it takes’ By Andrea Robinson | March 3, 2021 at 9:13 PM CST - Updated March 3 at 9:55 PM LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - Millions of federal dollars have been granted over the last six months in efforts to rebuild what the storms destroyed. FEMA and Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness (GOHSEP) representatives allocatin...