Hot Tamales and Mike And Ike. Little did I realize when I turned 60 that I would be celebrating along with a very famous fellow and his older brothers. Hot Tamales (one of my favorite filling extractors ) is celebrating its 60 birthday/anniversary, and its older brothers, Mike and Ike are celebrating their 70th. Who […]
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Sparkling Waters – Perrier and San Pellegrino. The bottled water industry has seen an across-the-board decline in sales in the past year. Consumers are turning to the lower cost “tap” waters – many of which are private label or “non-familiar” labeled brands sold at discount “dollar” stores. But there has been one “sparkling” (pun intended) […]
Community Coffee – Every Day with Rachael Ray. I’m proud of this company. It is a small (but growing) award winning coffee roaster that’s been around for nearly 100 years. If you can’t find this brand on your store shelves, you owe it to yourself to visit their website. Not only do they make the […]
New BP Oil Spill Live Video Feed, ‘No Oil Spewing’ (Live BP Video) The PBS.org live video feed of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is now showing a much calmer scene than yesterday and the days previous. As BP finally go the top kill procedure underway, they are attempting to choke […]
BP Oil Spill Stopped? New BP Oil Spill Live Feed Shows No Oil Spewing – from the looks of the live video feed below, BP has been able to successfully stop the oil leak from their broken pipe in the Gulf of Mexico. Yesterday, BP started the Top Kill procedure in an effort to choke […]
NASDAQ:AAPL – Apple Shares Up on iPad International Launch On the day that Apple releases the iPad internationally, Apple shares (NASDAQ:AAPL) start the day out strong on the NASDAQ. As of now (10:30am EST), Apple shares are up +4.51 (1.78%), currently trading at 257.98. When the NASDAQ opened this morning, Apple shares took an initial jump […]
BP Oil Spill Live Feed, New Live Oil Spill Feed Bypasses BP Site At around 11:30 am this morning (Wednesday, May 26th), BP cut off their live oil spill feed due to the launching of the procedure they called Top Kill. Apparently, BP didn’t want the public watching the procedure as it happened – in case […]