As is any given year, many notables, both famous and infamous, passed on. There are far too many to list them all, but here are a few which touched our hearts in various ways. They are all listed in chronological order from January, 2011, to December, 2011. Due to the length of this, I have added a list in alphabetical order (last name, first name) tagged to anchors so you may jump to who you would like to view. More…
Tag Archives: 2011 a Year in Review
2011 in Review | 40,000 Laws Passed 2
There were approximately 40,000 laws passed in 2011 which will take effect on January 1, 2012. I’m not going to read through all of them… are you? But here are a few, with link available to take you to the site listing all laws passed at the bottom of this post. More…
2011 in Review | Biggest Product Flops 1
According to 24/7 Wall Street website, here are the worst new product releases of 2011. Since I am not a fan of shopping as I do not feel the need to always have the latest and greatest of everything in the world, I don’t keep up on all the new releases, so I will take their word for it. They all sound like they were pretty much the product FAIL’s of 2011. More…
2011 in Review | Fires in the US Southwest 2
During the summer of 2011, which happens to be one of the worst droughts on record for those of us here in the United States Southwest, fires erupted all over causing mass destruction in many states. I reside in Albuquerque NM, and we were very fortunate here in the city. No large fires. A few small ones sprang up in the Rio Grande Bosque, but were quickly put out with little damage. However, Albuquerque, as well as a large part of the state, were victims from the mass amount of smoke and ash from the Arizona Wallow fires in June 2011. The first picture below is one I took from my back yard late one afternoon. No, it is not a setting sun… it is pink due to the thick smoke in the air. Ash covered everything for several days, choked our swamp coolers, and caused a large increase of asthma related problems in the hospitals. Below that are three photos I took from the north side of Albuquerque of the smoke pouring from the fires in Los Alamos (the Las Conchas fire), which threatened the nuclear lab facility there (home of the A-Bomb.) Los Alamos NM is approximately 70 miles how the crow flies. More…
2011 in Review | Extreme Weather 6
What a year 2011 was when it came to weather. Blizzards, tornadoes, flooding, droughts and hurricanes. Here is a photo journal through the extreme weather of 2011 shown in chronological order. Geologic disasters (tsunami, earthquakes, etc) will be posted in a separate article, as well as the fires in the US Southwest (in which I live.) More…
2011 in Review | Most Tragic Event 3
The island of Utøya
This one was a tough one to decide. There was, as in any given year, so much tragedy throughout the world. I debated on whether or not to post a tragic remembrance for 2011, but decided I should – if anything, as a remembrance to the victims. The most tragic event I chose was the Utøya massacre in Norway.
The 2011 Norway attacks were two sequential terrorist attacks against the government, the civilian population and a summer camp in Norway on 22 July 2011. More…
2011 in Review | From Rags to Riches 7
THE WINNER!
Okay, I have to admit, my guilty sinful pleasure is that I LOVE “America’s Got Talent.” The ONLY reality show I watch. And it is because I hope and adore when people like Landau Eugene Murphy, Jr. come on. Here is a man from West Virginia whose trade is washing cars. Has never sang professionally other than at charities. Not even in a smoke-filled bar in the back hills of West Virginia. He has also never done an audition… until AGT. In the shows audition, Landau walks out on the stage, is chided by Piers Morgan for chewing gum, then he starts singing… and a rare voice flows forth like only one other before him. More…
2011 in Review | My Favorite Video 4
Okay, fellow internet cohorts… it is time to start wrapping up 2011, and what a year this has been! For my first post of “2011 in Review,” I am sharing my favorite video which came out… The Ultimate Dog Tease. Naturally since I am a huge dog-lover, having trained dogs since I was 12 years old, run agility, and work with dog rescue, it makes complete sense that this is my fav. However, this video is SO creative, that even the non-dog-lover in life has to admit that it’s damn funny and well-made. More…
