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The Big Facebook Public Stock Sale Was………Not So Good

Jon Prell — Fri, 18 May 2012 21:39:39 +0000

Today was the big day...the day Facebook went public with potential share buyers lining up with visions of riches beyond their wildest expectations. Facebook did raise over $18 billion which gets their market value to about $100 billion, which was the goal. The stock sale, known as an IPO (initial public offering), did much better than Google's IPO in 2004 which raised about $1.7 billion putting the market value somewhere around $26.4 billion, but again, that was 2004.

Should Every American Be Required To Buy Health Insurance? [Poll]

Jon Prell — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 21:19:16 +0000

Today is the third and final day for the U.S. Supreme Court's review of health care reform as outlined in President Obama's proposed health care legislation that some call 'Obamacare'. The steps of the Supreme Court building in Washington D.C. has been lined with protestors on both sides of the proposed legislation with particular attention being paid to the proposed mandate that all Americans must have health insurance.

Kim Kardashian Gets Bombed With Baking Flour [Video]

Jon Prell — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 19:57:53 +0000

If you listen to Leslie and I weekday mornings, you know my feelings on Kim Kardashian and the whole concept of reality TV. Where do these people come from and how and why do they become huge celebrities making incredible amounts of money??? I don't and would never give the Kardashians the time of day and I certainly would not post anything here about Kim unless....

Doomsday Clock Moves One Minute Closer To 'Midnight' [Video]

Jon Prell — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 19:04:36 +0000

Are you a believer in the ‘Doomsday’ clock? It moved one minute closer to midnight yesterday putting it at 11:55pm. The clock has been around since 1947 and it is a fugurative timepiece that marks how close we are to the apocalypse or the end. It came about as a result of the dangers of nuclear weaponry advances [...]

If Kids Could Set The Rules For Divorce, What Would They Say?

Jon Prell — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 12:00:40 +0000

It is the start of a new year which could also mean a new start for people especially, children whose parents may be divorcing. The divorce rates are at an all-time high and no matter how hard we try to make it as easy as possible for the kids, they wind up hurt and sometimes very hurt.

Girls Give Their 'Best Dad In The World' A Special Christmas Gift Of Song [Video]

Jon Prell — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 10:57:48 +0000

Two little girls wanted to give their dad something very special this Christmas because of all he does for them. The girls put together a little video gift for their dad called ‘(Best Dad In The World) Wishing You A Merry Christmas’. The video features some home-video footage and some of the verses were the result [...]

Public Marriage Proposals Not Always A Good Idea [Videos]

Jon Prell — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 16:54:06 +0000

The Holiday Sason is typically a big season for Engagements. Make no mistake, asking someone to marry you is a big deal and how and where you do it is an equally big deal. The biggest problem are propsals in public. These can work and they can completely disasterous and even devestating. As a general [...]

Secret Smartphone App Records Everyting You Do [Video]

Jon Prell — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 17:08:18 +0000

Imagine if everything you did on your smartphone was logged somewhere and was being tracked. Well, according to a security researcher, there is hidden software, known as Carrier IQ that is found on some smartphones including HTC, Blackberry and Nokia. Trevor Eckhart says the application can also log the URL of all websites searched on the device and there [...]

Is This The World's Scariest Roller Coaster? [Video]

Jon Prell — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:28:10 +0000

Holiday World is the Roller Coaster capitol of the U.S. with the Voyage being the number one ranked wooden roller coaster inthe world. The coaster in this video is not the fastest and certainly is not the highest coaster in the world, but it could very well be the scariest and most terrifying coaster of them all.

Out Of The Rubble Comes A Miracle [Video]

Jon Prell — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 19:40:02 +0000

A 7.2 magnitude earthquake hit turkey on Sunday and toppled more than 2,000 buildings. Early Tuesday morning a 2-week-old infant girl was pulled from the rubble of one of the buildings. The girl’s mother and grandmother were also pulled from the rubble alive about two hours later. Below is the dramatic footage of the infant being pulled [...]

New Study Says One In Six Cell Phones Have Traces Of E. Coli Bacteria

Jon Prell — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 18:16:33 +0000

This might be one study they could have kept to themselves. Just in time for Global Handwashing Day, researchers from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Queen Mary, University of London went to 12 cities and took 390 samples from cellphones and hands to be tested for germs. They found that even though [...]

New Video From Inside Washington Monument During Quake [Video]

Jon Prell — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 14:44:08 +0000

The August 23rd earthquake that hit the East coast did quite a bit of

damage in the Washington D.C. area including to the Washington Monument which remains closed for repairs. They knew there was some damage to the monument, but closer inspections revealed more serious damage than previously thought as a result of the 5.8 magnitude quake.

Texas Prisons End The Practice Of Special 'Last Meals' For Inmates

Jon Prell — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:33:52 +0000

The practice of special ‘last meals’ for inmates on death row has been quietly debated for years and Texas has announced the practice will stop immediately. The change was prompted by a Texas Senator who was pretty miffed over an expensive meal request from a man awaiting execution for a notorious dragging death. Lawrence Russell Brewer [...]

The Best Disaster Preparedness Plan – Waffle House According To FEMA

Jon Prell — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 21:39:44 +0000

Disaster preparedness has been top of mind for quite sometime now, especially in light of recent tornadoes, floods and earthquakes. FEMA Director Craig Fugate has joked that he watches a “Waffle House Index” of disaster magnitude. The Wall Street Journal says Waffle House has a long standing reputation for staying open during natural disasters. The Waffle House [...]

Earthquake Hits Nation's Capitol

Jon Prell — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 19:36:08 +0000

An earthquake measuring 5.8 on the richter scale hit in the Washington, D.C. area today at 1:51 EDT. The shaking was felt as far away as New York and New England and Canada. The majority of the shaking was in in Virginia and the USGS says the epicenter is Louisa, Virginia just southeast of Charlottesville and northwest of Richmond.

'Master Switch' For Obesity Found

Jon Prell — Mon, 16 May 2011 10:43:51 +0000

Scientists have finally identified a gene linked to diabetes and cholesterol that might act as a ‘master switch’ that controls other genes found in fat in the human body which could help treat obesity which affects more than half a billion people worldwide, or one in ten adults. The gene is known as KLF14 and [...]

Time Magazine Puts An 'X' On Bin Laden

Jon Prell — Tue, 03 May 2011 17:30:23 +0000

Just days after President Barack Obama announced that Osama bin Laden had been killed by U.S. operatives in Abbottabad, Pakistan, TIME released a preview of its latest issue, in which the terrorist leader appears with a red X over his face.

Food Addiction The Same As Drug Addiction

Jon Prell — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 10:43:25 +0000

Have you ever seen a food treat like a milkshake and found it very hard to resist it? You are not alone. According to Reuters, seeing a milkshake can trigger the same areas in the brain that light up when an addict sees drugs. The study also suggests this is why so many people, especially some [...]

Women Secretly Annoyed By Facebook Friends

Jon Prell — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 10:45:48 +0000

According to a new survey published in the Huffington Post, 85 percent of women said they have been annoyed by other female friends because of they read about them on Facebook. The three top annoying behaviors according to the survey are complaining all the time, sharing unsolicited political views and bragging about perfect lives. It should [...]