Archive for the ‘News’ Category
The recent development of self-checkout machines at grocery stores has added a new convenience to grocery shopping. If you are only picking up milk or eggs, you no longer need to wait in those long checkout lines – or even in the fifteen-items-or-less line. You can be in and out of the store within the [...]
Tags: groceries shopping
There has been a very unpleasant accident at the Mythbusters. Death has never been something that they were looking for with that show, but now it has made a presence in it. We all know this show from the myths that they have been busting. There are many movies that display impossible events, and Adam, [...]
Tags: Erik Gates, Mythbusters, Mythbusters Death
There are cases like this where small businesses get over run by million dollar companies which have dozens of lawyers covering their backs. Usually their cases have a foundation that makes sense, but in some situations like the interesting case of Monster Energy Drink attacking Vermonster beer the claims are considered outrageous. Rock Art Brewery [...]
Tags: Corporate, Home-Based Business, Lawsuits, Monster Energy Drink, Vermonster, Vermont
Hurricane Rick has escalated to a category 5 hurricane (this means that the wind speeds are above 155 mph) while over the Mexican Pacific Coast. It is showing out to be the most powerful Storm in a while and it is considered as “extremely powerful”. If a hurricane of this power would hit a city [...]
Tags: Hurricane Rick, Projected Path
It is the time of the year to be looking for a new halloween costume again. This time the trend is shifting towards an Illegal Alien Halloween Costume that is definitely the hit product this halloween. This hilarious costume includes an orange jumpsuit, a mask and a green card that you can show to your [...]
Tags: Halloween Costumes, Holidays, Illegal Alien Halloween Costume
Mega millions lottery is showing results for many people in lots of different states. It is a lottery draw that is combined between different states and with that the jackpots are huge and making lots of people happy and changing their lives. The biggest problem with lottery is that the results are not usually guaranteed [...]
There has been a fatal shooting in the Great Mall of Milpitas. One man was killed in the two story building and the mall remained open for the rest of the day. The police closed the part of the mall where the Great Mall Shooting took place, and business was continued in a normal fashion. [...]
Tags: California, Great Mall Shooting, Milpitas, Shooting
Today it is, the time to be extra nice and thank your boss if she or he has been kind to you the past year – it’s National Boss Day 2009, also known as Bosses Day. There is some controversy about the day in the United States and it has been nicknamed the Hallmark Holiday. [...]
Tags: Boss's Day, Bosses Day, Hallmark Holidays, National Boss Day 2009
It is here this year once again as it is going to be time for the National Grouch Day once again. What is it? Well basically it is the day of the year when you are allowed to whine about every single thing you can think about. It does not matter if you are happy, [...]
Tags: National Grouch Day, USA
The widely spread epidemic of the swine flu (H1N1) has created a whole new need for some serious vaccination. Currently the influenza virus is not going to be deadly in healthy men and women, but with people who belong to the risk groups it is important to do everything you can to avoid the condition. [...]
It has not been a day since Finnish peacekeepers were attacked in Afghanistan with a roadside bomb. Two of them were seriously injured and one of them suffered a spinal fracture. Now eight troops of the U.S. Military are dead after being attacked in two different outposts. On Saturday night in Nuristan which is close [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Finland, Peacekeepers, US Soldiers
It is normal for the parents to be used to the flu shots for their children before they go to school. This has been around for a long time already and obligatory vaccinations have saved a lot of lives. But when you have to have flu shots when you are an adult, things seem to [...]
The International Olympic Commitee made two eliminations in the run for 2016 Olympic Games. Chicago and Tokyo are no longer contenders for the games and there are a still only Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Spain left as contenders. It seems that even if President Obama took time to go visit the Olympic Commitee, it [...]
Tags: Chicago, Copenhagen, Denmark, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Juan Carlos, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Olympic Commitee, Olympic Games, Pele, Tokyo
In the state of Tamil Nadu there is a group of scientists who have made an exciting discovery. Their primary goal was to find an old path where a river had gone, but instead they found a huddle of weird football sized objects. Later it turned out that these might be the eggs of dinosaur. [...]
Tags: Dinosaur, India, Sauropod, Tamil Nadu
For the economy the holiday times are actually quite important. A majority of the worlds shopping is done near the christmas and this has always a rejuvenating effect on the businesses. This year the confidence of the consumers is dipping and we are expecting an all time low in spending. Employment is an issue which [...]
Olympic games are the pinnacle of athletics. There are many atheletes whose main goals are always set for the olympics and the only train in cycles of four year to peak their condition for the one important day that they will have. It is the dream of all the athletes who ever start doing sports [...]
Tags: Chicago, Michelle Obama, Olympic Games
After two weeks of hesitation The White House has annonced their response to the election of the new Afghan President Hamid Karzai. He was the winner in the recent disputable election where they found proof that almost a fifth of all the votes might have been fraudulent. Obamas Administration clearly turned their backs on their [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Hamir Karzai, Obama, President