Cantaloupe Recall and Listeriosis Outbreak 09/2011
So, apparently there’s been a recall on cantaloupes of all things. Specifically cantaloupes from Colorado carrying the Listeria bacteria which causes Listeriosis. Check the FDA Press Release Here: http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm271899.htm From the CDC site: What is listeriosis? Listeriosis, a serious infection usually caused by eating food contaminated with the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes, is an important public [...]
Where to File State and Federal Taxes for Free
Filing Federal Taxes Every year, somebody asks me about how I do my taxes. The short answer is, online. I have been doing my taxes online since my 2nd W-2. My first time was at an H&R block walk-in, and since I made so little money, the guy did it for me for free :) [...]
Massive Nationwide Egg Recall 2010
*UPDATE August 20, 2010 – It seems that a SECOND farm has also issued a recall making the amount of recalled eggs over half a billion now! Read the full story here (CNN.com) http://edition.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/08/20/eggs.recall.salmonella/ If you didn’t already know, there is a huge egg recall going on right now…that’s right…eggs aka the incredible edibles A [...]
Local News From Lehigh Valley August 17-18 2010
Here’s some local news items that I found interesting for one reason or another. All of them are from the Lehigh Valley’s local newspaper The Morning Call and took place approximately around August 17 and 18th 2010. So, in no particular order: Emmaus Man Steals Almost $400,000 From His Company Over the Course of 9 [...]
Why Are Some Towns Getting Rid of Their Police Force?
July 17, 2001 This article from AolNews took me a little by surprise. I knew that towns, and even whole states are feeling the financial crunch right now…but I had no idea that you could disband a town’s police force to save some money. It seems that San Luis, Colorado and various other towns are [...]
How Things Are Going in my Hometown – North Amityville, NY 11701 – June 2010
I was curious as to what has been going on recently in and around my hometown of North Amityville, NY – Ya know, it’s been a while since I visited to see family and old friends. So I hit the news sites to see…and ya know what I saw? Nothing new. Also, this is all [...]
Campbell’s Recalls 15,000,000 Pounds of SpaghettiOs
This has already been reported a thousand times by every major news source online so far, but I’m surprised that some people still don’t know about it. Keep in mind, this is a Class I Recall, which means the HEALTH RISK is HIGH! WASHINGTON, June 17, 2010 – Campbell Soup Supply Company, LLC, a Paris, [...]
Angry American Crashes Plane Into IRS Building
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Austin_suicide_attack On February 18, 2010 – Andrew Joseph Stack III flew a small plane into a building that housed IRS offices. Many are already well aware of this particular news item. I’m a little late to it. It’s already been reported, blogged about and hyper-analyzed all over the usual places, so I won’t go into [...]
Black Friday Ads
Black Friday 2009 – Deals, Ads, Flyers, Info *UPDATE – It seems that the good folks over at Mashable came up with what I eventually wanted to turn this post into…so why not just link em:) HOW TO: Use Social Media to Find Black Friday Deals Yes, I hate Black Friday. It brings out the [...]
Twitter Down and FaceBook Acting Up Too – August 6th, 2009
Meh, everybody else was blogging about it, so I figured I would too :P You mean Twitter AND FaceBook?!?! The Social Web Weeps:’-( It seems that Twitter is currently down – Not only that, but the reason for the popular social site going off air is because of an ongoing DDoS attack, which has been [...]
Woman Sued Over a Tweet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizon_Group_v._Bonnen Seems some chick in Chicago tweeted a semi negative review about the apartment she was staying in…and the realty company that owns said building is trying to sue her…for $50,000!!!!! And you know the greatest part? A quote from the realty company: “We’re a sue first, ask questions later kind of an organization” I [...]
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