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FDA Recalls X-Rock Male Supplement

Michele Reynolds — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 17:14:00 +0000

FDA Recalls X-Rock Male Supplement – X-Rock makers of an OTC male sexual supplement have come out of the closet about unlisted ingredients which pose a threat to those taking the product. The FDA found during testing on the male supplement X-Rock, that the product contained sildenafil, an approved drug to treat erectile dysfunction and [...]

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Google Glasses The Next Big Thing?

Brian McLaren — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 15:16:48 +0000

Google officially unveiled its new augmented-reality glasses from its secret initiative Project Glass on Wednesday, releasing the video seen below along with pictures of employees wearing the new Google glasses. In this Google Plus post, employees at Google’s research lab Google X asked for input from interested parties on features and functions on the futuristic [...]

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Nick Fairley Arrested On Drug Charges

Brian McLaren — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 17:35:57 +0000

Detroit Lions defensive tackle Nick Fairley was arrested Tuesday in Alabama on a charge of possessing marijuana, authorities said. Citizens called to complain that Fairley’s Cadillac Escalade was speeding through a lower-middle class neighborhood in Mobile, Alabama, said city police spokeswoman Ashley Rains. Officers smelled marijuana coming from the vehicle and found a small amount [...]

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Yahoo Cutting 2,000 Jobs

Brian McLaren — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 17:19:13 +0000

Yahoo announced they were cutting 2,000 jobs in an effort to become smaller, nimbler, and more profitable. The cuts amount to roughly 10% of Yahoo’s total U.S. workforce. Yahoo says the job cuts will eventually save it $375 million per year, but first they will have to pay out severance of roughly $125 million to [...]

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Facebook Sues Yahoo

Brian McLaren — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 16:43:37 +0000

Facebook has returned the favor, counter-suing Yahoo over patent infringement as the two Internet giants traded legal salvos in their escalating fight over online advertising dollars. Facebook’s counterclaim, filed in a federal court case in San Francisco, comes after Yahoo sued Facebook over alleged patent infringement in March, 2012. Yahoo launched their suit against Facebook [...]

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Andy Warhol Sketch Bought At Garage Sale

Brian McLaren — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 17:22:52 +0000

A British tourist bought five paintings for $5 at a Las Vegas garage sale and an early Andy Warhol sketch worth an estimated $2 million dollars was hidden inside one picture frame. The signed Andy Warhol drawing on tattered paper is believed to be of Rudy Vallee, a well-known singer in the 1930s. Warhol would have been [...]

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Apple Shares Touted to Top $1,000

Brian McLaren — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 16:01:01 +0000

An investment analyst is advising his clients that Apple shares could continue to soar and will top $1,000 within the next 12 months. Previously, such irrational exuberance about Apple shares would be dismissed outright but Apple stock prices have doubled in the past 12 months, rising from $310 to $628. Much of that surge has [...]

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Obesity In America Much Higher Than Thought

Brian McLaren — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:17:39 +0000

The U.S. CDC says that 1 in 3 Americans are obese, but new research indicates that nearly 60% of Americans are obese. A new study, published in the journal PLoS One, said that using the Body Mass Index or BMI to determine obesity was underestimating the issue and that up to 39% of people who [...]

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Oakland Shooting: Six Killed, 3 Wounded

Brian McLaren — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 22:07:22 +0000

A disgruntled former nursing student was arrested after spraying 30 shots around the campus of Oikos University in Oakland, California, resulting in six students killed and three wounded. Oakland police arrested the shooter at a shopping mall five miles from campus. “As you may have heard, the suspected shooter in today’s deadly shooting at Oikos [...]

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Paycento Offers One-Click Payments Through Facebook & Twitter

Brian McLaren — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 21:38:05 +0000

A new start-up called Paycento is pioneering an easy single click online payment system through Facebook and Twitter that will allow users to make micro-payments on other sites. Paycento leverages the fact that many surfers stay logged in to their profiles on social networking sites like Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter all the time. Their system [...]

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Iraq Tells Qatar To Return Fugitive VP

Brian McLaren — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 15:21:20 +0000

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Baghdad told Qatar on Monday to return fugitive Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi, whose case has fuelled political tensions that are threatening to upset Iraq’s fragile sectarian balance. Hashemi, one of Iraq’s top Sunni politicians, has been sheltering in the autonomous northern Kurdistan region after the Shi’ite-led central government issued an arrest warrant [...]

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Teacher Arrested In Sex For Grades Scandal

Brian McLaren — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 15:15:06 +0000

Atoka High School teacher Casey Hauff has been arrested in a sex for grades scandal where the male teacher promised better grades for female students in exchange for sexual favors. Casey Hauff, 32, a former teacher and football coach at a small town Oklahoma high school, was charged with two counts of second-degree rape and [...]

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Google News Prank: Forbes Said Romney Quit Race

Brian McLaren — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 13:45:12 +0000

Even though Google loves their April Fools Day pranks, their Google News unit was fooled by a Forbes blogger’s prank story about Mitt Romney dropping out of the Republican primary and they made it the top news story. Len Burnam, who blogs about politic for Forbes, wrote a ridiculously funny story about Romney conceding the [...]

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Kids Find Treasure In Lake

Brian McLaren — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 17:19:42 +0000

Kids Find Treasure In Lake – A group of sixth graders cleaning up a lake in Oakland, California found two heavy canvas Wells Fargo bank bags from the 1930s stuffed full of old jewelry and other possibly stolen items. The elementary school students from St. Paul’s Episcopal School in Oakland, found two 15-pound canvas bags [...]

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Big Banks Face Credit Downgrades

Brian McLaren — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:10:17 +0000

Three big U.S. banks face a possible credit downgrade in May – Bank of America, Citigroup, and Morgan Stanley could all be downgraded to Baa2 – to just two steps above junk bond level. Moody’s Investors Service, which is one of the two biggest ratings agencies, reported that it will decide by mid-May whether to [...]

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Invisible Shaping Bum Boosters

Dale Carroll — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:32:36 +0000

Shoppers are looking for a garment that Pippa Middleton made popular – The Invisible Shaping Bum Booster, and you won’t believe how inexpensive this little body shaper is. Women who hope to improve their figures have been paying $50 and up for shape wear and some brands like Spanx can run upwards of $100. But [...]

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US Military Uses Candy Sucker For Pain Killer

Michele Reynolds — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 12:36:08 +0000

US Military Uses Candy Sucker For Pain Killer – Leading the way for the military the US Marines are using a candy sucker dosed with Fentanyl a powerful pain killer instead of an injection of morphine for badly wounded marines. The US miltary sucker or lollipop treatment offers an alternative to the morphine needle jab [...]

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Caughlin Wildfire Hits Reno Nevada

Michele Reynolds — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 13:03:49 +0000

Caughlin Wildfire Hits Reno Nevada – The Caughlin wildfire in Reno Nevada raced through neighborhoods destroying 21 buildings and forcing an evactuation of over 9500 Reno residents. Firefighters are calling the 2011 Reno fire a ‘Locomotive’ type of fire, one that rushed through residential and small business areas like a locomotive freight train requiring more [...]

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Ex Casey Anthony Prosecutor Book:Imperfect Justice Prosecuting Casey Anthony

Michele Reynolds — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 17:11:24 +0000

Ex Casey Anthony Prosecutor Book Imperfect Justice: Prosecuting Casey Anthony – A former Casey Anthony prosecutor has written a book titled Imperfect Justice Prosecuting Casey Anthony in which he takes personal shots at her attorney Jose Baez. Casey Anthony who was found not guilty of killing her 2 year old daughter Caylee, along with Jose [...]

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Wilson Ramos Kidnapped

Michele Reynolds — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 12:47:53 +0000

Wilson Ramos Kidnapped – Wilson Ramos the catcher for the Washington Nationals baseball team was kidnapped at gunpoint while visiting his family home in Venezuela. Ramos, a rising star on the Washington Nationals baseball team was at home with his father and brothers when several men “entered the house and took him away,” according to [...]

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