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Mercedes-Benz G63 AMG Civilians shouldn’t salute
Mercedes-Benz-s G63 AMG is a squared-off brute that's just the ticket for expeditions or war zones, but it leaves a lot to be desired on normal highways, says Dan ...
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Star Trek II producer talks Ceti Eel J.J. Abrams and more
Robert Sallin, producer of "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan," shares his experience working on the film, looks at the future of "Trek," and dishes on whether that was Ricardo Montalban's real ...
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Who Owns Organic Brands And Why You Should Care
organic brands lining the shelves of your local supermarket or natural foods store are no longer independently owned. Popular brands, like Boca Burgers (owned by Mondelez, formerly known as Kraft) or Kashi (owned by Kellogg) were actually acquired years ago (both in 2000). Now other seemingly more local or small scale brands like Peet's Coffee (now owned ...
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Fun Facts For Roadtrip Season Why Were Using Less Gasoline Than Ever
(Photo credit: Wikipedia) Memorial Day weekend marks the start of the summer driving season. It's the weekend of the Indianapolis 500, and -- if you happen to be in the jet set -- of the running of Formula One's Monaco Grand Prix. There's no better time to take measure of the state of America's love affair with the automobile. And no better way to celebrate that with a ...
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Creation Science Hall Of Fame Granted 501 Status
The Creation of Adam (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The adventures of Kent Hovind, a/k/a Doctor Dino, in Tax Court and other parts of the legal system have gotten me involved in following developments in Creation Science. Tax bloggers have all been breathlessly following the saga of the IRS Cincinnati gang that couldn't sort straight and the topic of who else the IRS might be picking on has ...
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On Memorial Day Remembering The Athletes Who Died Fighting For Our Country
Pat Tillman, the former safety for the NFL's Arizona Cardinals who enlisted with the Army Rangers after 9/11, may be the most famous professional athlete who died while fighting for the United States in a war. But there have been a handful of others. Below, their ...
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Minneapolis Housing Supply and Demand Hits Magic Numbers
When houisng supply demand seems magical ';With homes selling in half the time it took to sell a year ago, buyers must be both decisive and prudent. Advice with contract terms and negotiations is where the expertise of a Realtor shines for both buyers and sellers.'; ~ NAR President Gary ...
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NewsWatch Can Marissa Mayer leave those crazy kids alone
How should Yahoo's Marissa Mayer, a CEO in her late thirties, manage a millennial like Adam Karp, the idealistic founder of Tumblr? Very carefully, writes John ...
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Beware the coming of the Google Glass photographer
Grovo offer a glimpse into a horrifying future. An obnoxious, photo-obsessed Glass owner gets all up in everyone's grill to record everything with many, many blinks of the eye. I'd love to say this is all just hyperbole for the sake of getting a laugh, but then I think of the guy shouting at a person on speakerphone in the library, or the number of phone conversations had by people ...
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Cars With The Highest Theft Rates
According to data compiled by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 8.61 out of 1,000 Ford Shelby GT sports cars produced were ultimately stolen during ...
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Big Pharma Learned The Wrong Marketing Lesson
, their performance is less than stellar. True marketing leaders must innovate continuously to stay ahead of the market, by creating needs, rather than only responding to them. To them, marketing begins with choosing which products to develop and ends with the sales process. That is what Google has accomplished with Google Glass. With the advent of the Information Age, marketing has been ...
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Four Tips for a Successful Online Apartment Search
relocating and looking to find your apartment online, the search process is a little different than taking a jaunt around the neighborhood. With the help ...
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What The Ascent Of Valeants CEO The Anti-Art Levinson Means For Pharmas Future
profile of the "low-key, high-tech biotech" touched on the free cappuccino, wacky Halloween parties (including current UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann dressed as Snow White), and onsite day care, before getting to the heart of the matter. "Genentech's secret, anybody will tell you, is its culture." Employees were drawn to Genentech by the opportunity to work with ...
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The Most Subscribed-To YouTube Channels
7 millionSmosh is now the most-subscribed to channel on YouTube with 7 million subscribers. Here is a look at the channel's competition. All numbers are ...
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This Housing Recovery Has Legs Michael Santoli
existing home sales surged to their highest level in more than three years. There is some bad news mixed in with all of these housing numbers, April housing starts recently plummeted from a 48-month high and applications for home mortgages dropped for the second week in a row. So will the housing recovery continue and spread, or slow ...
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Manufacturers Hope SCOTUS Takes Up The Case Of The Smelly Washer
mandated new efficiency standards for washing machines in 2001 , manufacturers responded. They retooled their factories to sell new front-loading washers, which use half as much water as their top-loading counterparts. There's only one problem with front-loaders, which just about anybody who owns one can tell you: They can stink. Because they use less water and consumers tend to shut the ...
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Philadelphia Soul Owners Taking Arena Football League To China
Arena Football League from the league. I sat down and chatted with Jaws (please see video at end of this post) this past Wednesday during a break at the Rothman ...
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How To See What Others Dont
Seeing What Others Don't is not only the title of new book by Gary Klein, it is also a mantra that can make you successful. Let's deal with the book first and then my assertion. Although I have never met him, I have been a fan of Klein for years. He is a very smart guy who is a senior scientist at MacroCognition and he begins his latest book with a simple formula. Performance ...
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Post Tornado Insurance Rates May Rise
tornado in Moore, Okla., is fixing to expand its reach. While insurance companies don't try to raise rates solely on the basis of a single storm or disaster, a series of disasters can push them to seek higher rates where the events took place. The past five years have seen numerous significant tornadoes, and with the Moore tornado coming shortly after several other serious ones ...
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Danica Patrick From Race to Sponsorships
The Indy 500 runs on Sunday, and then there is the Coca-Cola 600 at the Charlotte Motor Speedway, where Nascar driver Danica Patrick will be racing. Patrick discusses how she prepares for a long ...
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US dollar rises on Taipei forex ends a days high of NT$30.030
TAIPEI -- The U.S. dollar rose against the New Taiwan dollar Friday, gaining NT$0.005 to close at the day's high of NT$30.030 behind central bank intervention, dealers ...
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49ers Harbaugh to drive Indy pace car
San Francisco 49ers football coach Jim Harbaugh has been selected to drive the Indianapolis 500's pace car Sunday, a 2014 Chevrolet Corvette ...
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Slide Show The 2014 Bentley Flying Spur
The sedan version of the Bentley Continental, the 2014 Bentley Flying Spur, drops its Continental moniker but remains three tons of air-conditioned, quilted-leather land-missile. According to Autoweek, the 6.0-liter W12 engine now produces 616 hp and 590 lb-ft of torque, doled out in a 40/60 front/rear split by the all-wheel-drive system. A 110-pound weight reduction over the outgoing Flying ...
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Robert Powell How to know if you have enough to retire
Odds are high that you haven't saved enough money to retire in the manner in which you desire. That's the bad news. The good news is that you can easily gauge just how close or far away you might be. And the first to thing to check is how much you have set aside for ...
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General Motors and Deloitte Touche in $303 million securities class action
A securities class action brought against General Motors (GM) by German’s DekaBank has led to a cash settlement of $277 million. In one of the biggest shareholder recoveries of 2008, the settlement will be paid to shareholders following an alleged misstatement of the auto company’s financials dating back to 2000. GM’s outside auditor, Deloitte & Touche, is ...
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