tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-256459712011-12-14T18:59:22.541-08:00Passed Out Drunk News is your daily source about weird alcohol related news. People behaving badly, people doing stupid stuff, drunk driving stories, police reports and unknown facts about alcohol. Cheers!Dmitry Davydovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01266442860402279245noreply@blogger.comBlogger3181100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25645971.post-24938354125104281162011-12-03T01:25:00.001-08:002011-12-03T01:25:54.802-08:00

For MrBeer coupons, click here.“Not bad. In fact, my first home brew wasn’t as good as this.”That was Garrett Oliver, Brewmaster of Brooklyn Brewery, and what he had to say when he gave a MrBeer beer kit a try for himself. And believe us—he wasn't drunk when he said that.Oliver described the “Mr. Beer Process” in three steps: "We sanitize, we brew, and then we bottle."And how much did it

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Here is a list of cool articles about successful unusual businesses for the weekend.1. Selling Pickles Online? Actually, It's A Great Business2. 5 Online Millionaires You’ve Never Heard About3. 20 Ways For A Starving Students To Make Some Money4. We Only Have One Of Each - StAlfred.Com Business Model Generates Profit5. What Happens To The Ring When The Wedding Is Called Off?6. 9 Famous Things

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Do you ever think to yourself, “There needs to be an app for this!” Actually, that is exactly how a lot of interesting and useful sites got their start. There was a need and somebody decided to fill it, and then offer it for free!Here are the top seven on our list:1. Bloove.comMore than just a really cool word to say, Bloove is a web-based, cell phone management and backup system that is

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The best things in life are free: free email services (Hotmail or Gmail), free friends (next door neighbors), free image hosting sites (Image Shack or Flickr), free scenery (semi-clad waitresses across the street), and free video hosting (YouTube). To make it complete, just throw in a couple of free food and drinks and you've got it made already.However, should your hedonistic self feel like

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Five Famous Websites - How They Got Their Names1. Yahoo.com It's hard to believe that a site as cool as yahoo actually started with a name as uncool as “Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web” but that's the truth. The name yahoo came from the fact that the company founders, Jerry Yang and David Filo had nicknamed themselves the Chief Yahoos and instead of spending countless hours trying

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Human nature is by design addicted to free stuff but who would blame us. Is there anyone in the world who hasn't wished at least once a day to be able to get something without having to pay for it. It is no wonder Gmail, Youtube and the like have become so popular and a significant part of our daily lives. However these major players are not the only people offering something for free online.

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With economy tanking and growing debts, more and more people turn online in hopes of making extra income. And the first question they ask themselves - what is my site going to sell? Coming up with a working idea may be quite difficult, so here are five inspirational examples when successful online businesses where launched by thinking out of the box. So don't bee afraid to think silly, wacky or

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Have you ever wondered what Gmail, Hotmail, YouTube, ImageShack, and Flickr have in common? Aside from being popular, one-word sites (duh!), they have one thing in common: they're all FREE.And we all love freebies, right?But did you know that there are other smaller niche sites that offer interesting stuff as well? And what's more, most of them are 100% free. Okay, so not all of them are totally

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Link Of The Day - Product Naminghttp://www.iwearyourshirt.com/Jason Sadler previous worked for advertising agencies, sports organizations, and co-owned a web design company. His desire to start a home-based business inspired him to launch IWearYourShirt.com, a website giving businesses the opportunity to be promoted via social media. While services like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and Ustream

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1. GoDaddy.comEver heard of Jomax Technologies? That was actually the original name of Go Daddy back in those days when founder Bob Parsons and his team were actually struggling to find a better name for their online business. A couple of brainstorming sessions all led to zilch--until someone jokingly suggested "Big Daddy" for their name. Fortunately for them, BigDaddy.com was already taken, so

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1. Yahoo.comWhen the developers of “Jerry and David’s Guide to the World Wide Web” needed to find a new, shorter company name, Jerry Yang and David Filo had already given themselves the titles of Chief Yahoos. In keeping with their many fun loving, albeit misguided business decisions, they decided to just shorten it to Yahoo. You might think if they had looked up the definition, they wouldn’t

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7 Crowdsourcing Sites to Help Your Web WorkCrowdsourcing what--? If you haven’t heard of this term, then WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?!? Crowdsourcing refers to hiring a lot of people for a task that’s normally done by an individual. It’s slowly gaining momentum, and is fast becoming one of the most popular buzzwords in many online companies today. The reason is simple: it has saved them a lot of money

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A lot of people play it safe, when trying to make money online. Ebay, Adsense, affiliate marketing, consulting or something along those lines. And, more often than not, these conventional ideas fail. Here is a list of nine people who weren't afraid to try crazy ideas online and made a lot of money at it.A Homepage Worth MillionsWho would ever think that you can be rich out of being desperate?

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Chances are, you know that there are many ways to make money online. Blogging, freelancing, becoming a virtual assistant, affiliate marketing and so on. But all these take quite a bit of time, effort and sometimes expertese. Truth is, there are other, much easier, ways to make a few buck online. Obviously, because these are easier, the pay is quite a bit lower (you won't be able to retire on the

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10 Cool Little Known Outsourcing Services (Some Of Which Are Free).1. Branding – PickyDomains.comAs simple as it may sound, coming up with a name can be one of the most daunting tasks especially if you intend to use the name as a domain online. Coming up with the kind of domain name that will be on everybody's lips is not an easy job and luckily you don't have to do it by yourself.

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If you have felt like you cannot fathom a way to get some free time from the stress of your work, then you are certainly not the only one to feel that way. In the hustle and bustle of modern society, many people find it difficult to get a some spare time for themselves. So, how would you feel if there were time-saving services and tools out there just waiting to be discovered? Well, in fact,

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1. PickyDomains.comIf naming things is something you are particularly good at then PickyDomains.com offers you the opportunity to earn some easy money just by doing this. This crowdsourcing agency will pay you between $25 and $50 if you provide a domain name that a client registers. Taking advantage of this opportunity is as easy as logging in, checking the orders and submitting suggestions. Blog

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Unless you are brand new to the Internet, you know that there are plenty of ways to make money online. You can work as a freelancer, start your own blog and monetize it, become a virtual assistant, sell stuff on eBay, create your own affiliate sites, etc. These all work, but they do take a considerable time and effort. So here is a list of sites, where you can make money online with very little

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It is something that every webmaster goes through, the dreaded expiration notice for the domains they own. You originally had all these ideas when you first bought all of those domains. Now another year has gone by, and you have your domain registrar messaging that you have to spend $90 to renew all your domain names. You might be thinking whether it is worth it to renew your domains or not. What

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Added four news to PickyDomains.com1. Brand Naming2. Domain Name Ideas3. Business Name Ideas4. Company Name Ideas

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You have looming deadlines, and there is more work than there are hours in the day for you to get it all done. Have you ever thought that what you really need is help that applies directly to the job at hand? There are thousands of specialized applications and services that can help you be more productive. I am sure you have heard about people hiring telemarketers and assistants in other

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There are thousands articles out there, teaching you how to monetize your blog. Register with AdSense, offer affiliate products through CPA networks like Commission Junction, place Amazon ads, sell links through TextLinkAds or similar service, etc. There are all acceptable and they do work. But why not get a little bit more creative. Here are five unconventional ways to monetize your blog.1.

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So you’ve gotten that message from your domain registrar – domain expiration notice. You are not sure if you want to renew your domain or not. What are your options?1. Do NothingThis, by far, is the most popular option and this is what most people do. They believe that the only choice they have is either to pay the renewal fee or not to. It’s not the only choice. But you can still do nothing.2

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There are way to many outsourcing and personal productivity articles that give advice like hiring a virtual assistance or learning "Getting Things Done" or implementing certain e-mail processing system. But you probably think 'hey, these ideas are cool, but they have nothing to do with my job, why aren't there any services that can help me?' Well, I bet there are, because hundreds, if not

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10 Things You Really Shouldn’t Be Doing YourselfYou’ve probably read all those outsourcing and personal productivity articles that give advice like hiring a virtual assistance in India, thinking ‘it’s all fine and dandy, but that has nothing to do with me and my job, I wish there was something to make MY LIFE easier’. Well, chances are, there is. Truth is, there are hundreds, if not thousands,

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We've decided to maintain a list of sites that reviewed PickyDomains (especially because a lot of people seem to search for them according to our logs). If you've written a review for PickyDomains.com and we don't have it, send us a message.PickyDomains review 1, Picky domains review 2, Pickydomains review 3, Pickydomains review 4, Pickydomains review 5, Pickydomains review 6, Pickydomains review

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1. Million Dollar HomepageThis has to be THE craziest idea for making money online. Alex Tew, then 21 year old , decided to raise money for college by selling pixels on his website, $1 each. The rest is history – Alex got his million in less than a year, he got interviewed by all major television stations, hackers arranged a major DDoS attack on his site and hundreds of copycats followed. Alas,

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Free Business Name IdeasLooking for business name ideas? Pickydomains.com is world’s first risk-free naming agency that opened its doors in 2007 and has come up with thousands of cool business and domain names, like GymGenius.com, Xutta.com, Geomium, Eyes On Fries Diets or GetMapped.Com since then.The idea behind Pickydomains.com is brilliantly simple. If you need a business name that perfectly

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http://www.pickydomains.com/PickyDomains.Com is a perfect example of how to turn one’s talent into a profitable business. With ever expanding Internet and tens of millions existing websites, finding an available domain name that’s not already taken by cybersquatters can be a real nightmare.But one man’s problem is another man’s solution. Rather than to shell out hundreds or thousands of dollars

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Link of the day - If You Sell Links On Your Site, I Will Buy Them Off You 1. Million Dollar Homepage 1000000 pixels, charge a dollar per pixel – that’s perhaps the dumbest idea for online business anyone could have possible come up with. Still, Alex Tew, a 21-year-old who came up with the idea, is now a millionaire. 2. PickyDomains Hire another person to think of a cool domain name for you? No

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Link of the day - I will pay you $25, if you come up with a cool domain name for me.Bill Hicks Live - Satirist, Social Critic, Stand-Up ComedianLove All the People: The Essential Bill Hicks by Bill Hicks and John LahrBill Hicks: Agent of Evolution by Kevin Booth and Michael Bertin Link of the day - I will pay you $25, if you come up with a cool domain name for me.

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Link of the day - I will pay you $25, if you come up with a cool domain name for me.Steven Wright - When the Leaves Blow AwayDave Chappelle - Inside the Actor’s StudioUnderground Comics - Neil HamburgerDoug Stanhope: From Across The StreetSarah Silverman - Jesus Is SpecialLink of the day - I will pay you $25, if you come up with a cool domain name for me.

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Link of the day - I will pay you $25, if you come up with a cool domain name for me. Embodied in the figure of the goddess Athena or Mother Mary, the virgin state has inspired universal cults, national myths, personal passions and unsurpassed works of art; it has excited religious mystics to praise it as the highest ideal and fastest way to heaven; it has also moved many a titillating plot about

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Link of the day - I will pay you $25, if you come up with a cool domain name for me.Tells the story of Adrienne Braxtons struggle to turn her Brooklyn bakery business from a weekend sidewalk stand to a real storefront. The film follows Adrienne as she chases the American dream of owning her own business while facing the demands of providing for her grandson and the difficulties of navigating New

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Link of the day - I will pay you $25, if you come up with a cool domain name for me.Tells the story of Adrienne Braxtons struggle to turn her Brooklyn bakery business from a weekend sidewalk stand to a real storefront. The film follows Adrienne as she chases the American dream of owning her own business while facing the demands of providing for her grandson and the difficulties of navigating New

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Link of the day - I will pay you $25, if you come up with a cool domain name for me.In 1967, Doug Stanhope was born in Worcester, Massachusetts where he lived until he was 18 years old. Stanhope's comedy career began in 1990 in Las Vegas, Nevada.Stanhope has made appearances at several major comedy festivals, including the Montreal Just For Laughs, US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colorado, the

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Link of the day - I will pay you $25, if you come up with a cool domain name for me.Straw DogsBlack Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia Gray's Anatomy

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Link of the day - I will pay you $25, if you come up with a cool domain name for me.Tomorrow's Gold: Asia's age of discovery by Marc FaberCrash Proof: How to Profit From the Coming Economic CollapseReinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects

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Link of the day - I will pay you $25, if you come up with a cool domain name for me.BBC documentary about Jerry Garcia, the Grateful Dead, and the circumstances around Jerry's estate when he died...Garcia : An American LifeDark Star: An Oral Biography of Jerry Garcia Garcia: A Signpost To New Space by Jerry Garcia, Charles Reich, and Jann Wenner

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Link of the day - Blind Spots: Why Smart People Do Dumb ThingsOther cool documentaries:Dmitry Orlov: Social Collapse Best PracticesPBS American Masters - Andy WarholIn Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

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Link of the day - I will pay you $25, if you come up with a cool domain name for me.THE ANTICHRIST takes a harrowing look at an evil so obscure that he answers only to Satan. Follow the emergence of the Antichrist from pre-Judaic texts, through the Book of Daniel and Revelation, into Christian writings of the Middle Ages, and beyond. Aided by interviewees with eminent clergy, scholars, historians

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Link of the day - I will pay you $25, if you come up with a cool domain name for me. Stand-up comedy star Kevin Hart delivers his unique perspective on work, race, family and friends with this laugh-riot comedy show, using his personal life as a departure point to shine a light on universal experiences. A multitalented writer, actor and BET host, Hart makes fun of everybody -- especially himself

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Link of the day - I will pay you $25, if you come up with a cool domain name for me.Do You Believe in Gosh? by Mitch Hedberg Mitch All Together by Mitch Hedberg Strategic Grill Locations by Mitch Hedberg

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Link of the day - I will pay you $25, if you come up with a cool domain name for me. The E! special on Mitch Hedberg's life and death. It gives a great perspective from his family and comedians. RIP Mitch Hedberg.Mitchell Lee Hedberg (February 24, 1968 – March 29, 2005) was an American stand-up comedian known for his surreal humor and unconventional comedic delivery. Hedberg's comedy typically

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Link of the day - How to Be Funny on Purpose Lucky Louie creator and star Louis C.K. returns to HBO for an hour of no-holds-barred, adults-only stand-up comedy! Taped before a live audience at the Henry Fonda Theater in Los Angeles, the performance finds Louis taking aim at fat and skinny people, spending money, bumper stickers, Californians, strangers and friends, sex and marriage, lying to your

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Link of the day - Blind Spots: Why Smart People Do Dumb ThingsMore Chris Rock:Chris Rock - Never Scared Chris Rock: Kill the Messenger Rock This! by Chris Rock

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Link of the day - Blind Spots: Why Smart People Do Dumb ThingsJohn Pinette - I Say Nay NayMaking Lite of MyselfShow Me The Buffet

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Link of the day - How PickyDomains.com Changed The Domain Game For Goodhttp://www.smashshack.com/ When Sarah Lavely gets angry, she likes to break things. Not all the time, but on days when everything seems to be going wrong, she has been known to throw some plates against a wall. Fortunately, she has an easy outlet: Lavely is the founder of Sarah's Smash Shack, a San Diego shop where customers

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Link of the day - Free NFL tshirts and jerseyshttp://peegly.com/No doubt you've heard about file sharing. How about feeling sharing? That's exactly what Peegly.Com founders strived to do. Since you can share just about anything online now, from expenses to music files, why not human emotions?Here is how site founders describe the service:What is Peegly’s Share-your-feelings Service? Peegly is a

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Link of the day - Are you a person the world should know about?NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Frank Keys Jr. faces up to 40 years in prison after he was found cruising down the highway with more than 200 grams of heroin in the diaper he was wearing, federal officials said.Keys, 38, of New Orleans was charged Friday by a federal grand jury. He got in trouble June 3 in St. John the Baptist Parish, north of

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http://www.pickydomains.com/PickyDomains.Com is a perfect example of how to turn one’s talent into a profitable business. With ever expanding Internet and tens of millions existing websites, finding an available domain name that’s not already taken by cybersquatters can be a real nightmare.But one man’s problem is another man’s solution. Rather than to shell out hundreds or thousands of dollars

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LONDON (Reuters) - Found: drinking companions to join elderly gentleman for a friendly beer at his local pub.Mike Hammond was bombarded with offers after advertising in his village post office for someone to accompany his 88-year-old father Jack on visits to a southern England pub from a nursing home.He offered the lucky winner 7 pounds ($14) an hour plus expenses and, after sifting through the

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The Strangest College Field Trip I Ever Heard OfSelf-HelplessOops! Programmer Destroys Multibillion Industry With A Single Software Application10 Greatest April Fool’s Hoaxes Of All Time

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GARDEN CITY, N.Y. — Harvey Levinson might be the last person his neighbors would expect to complain about the assessment on his condominium. After all, he's the county assessor.But Levinson has asked the Nassau County Assessment Review Commission to knock more than $200,000 off the $502,080 value his own office set for his two-bedroom condo in an upscale Long Island development. If approved, the

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NEW YORK - A college student has apologized for causing a scare on a subway train when his science project short-circuited and started smoking in his backpack.Gregory Kats, 29, said the device was just a model of an elevator's inner workings. But it frightened riders on a B train near the Seventh Avenue stop on Thursday.Kats said he tried to reassure his fellow passengers that it was a school

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KISSIMMEE, Fla. -- A Kissimmee homeowner was in England when he learned a Florida bank had mistakenly started foreclosure proceedings on his house.As it turns out, Denroy Bell didn't even have a mortgage with the bank, Citi-Residential. The bank admitted that it's dealing with so many foreclosures in Central Florida that it made a mistake.Bell's neighbor called him when she saw the locks being

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Scientists believe they have located a new brain area essential for good memory - the "irrelevance filter".People who are good at remembering things, even with distractions, have more activity in the basal ganglia on brain scans, the Swedish team found.The work in Nature Neuroscience could help explain why some people are better at remembering things than others.Clinically, it could also aid the

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1. Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and PoliticsIn Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets, Bonner and freelance journalist Lila Rajiva use literary economics to offer broader insights into mass behavior and its devastating effects on society. Why is it, they ask, that perfectly sane and responsible individuals can get together, and by some bizarre alchemy turn into an

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1. Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics In Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets, Bonner and freelance journalist Lila Rajiva use literary economics to offer broader insights into mass behavior and its devastating effects on society. Why is it, they ask, that perfectly sane and responsible individuals can get together, and by some bizarre alchemy turn into an

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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Nine-year-old Gracie Smith was just trying to earn a Girl Scout Badge.But after two teenage girls stole the money she collected from selling cookies, Smith got a lesson in crime and punishment.Authorities said Smith was selling the cookies outside a supermarket Wednesday when the two teens stole $164 and drove off.The teens, whose names were not released, were arrested.

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Robbins was born Anthony J. Mahavorick in North Hollywood, California. He was raised in Azusa, California, and he attended Glendora High School. His parents divorced when he was seven years old, and his mother later remarried twice. Tony took on the surname of Jim Robbins, his second stepfather. Inspired by motivational speaker Jim Rohn, Robbins began selling his own seminars. He then went on to

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BERLIN — Germany and beer go together like Porsches and the autobahn, but health-conscious residents are turning from the country's traditional beverage in favor of juices and bottled water, sending suds sales down to the lowest levels in 15 years.According to a government report released today, the amount of beer sold in Germany fell to the lowest sales figure since 1993 — dropping by 2.7

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(AP) CARLISLE, Pa. - Barflies, forget having to talk your troubles over with a bartender.A pastor plans to put teams of chaplains in local bars in this central Pennsylvania town so they can lend a sympathetic ear to patrons who may need one.The chaplains won’t preach against drinking or evangelize when the program starts at Market Cross Pub, organizer Chuck Kish said."We’re simply going to be

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PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- Authorities in Port St. Lucie said an intoxicated college student who decided to hand in a paper for a class instead ended up in their parking lot.Police said Joseph Burzynski was weaving through the police parking lot full of cruisers and almost hit a sergeant. When asked what he was doing, Burzynski told authorities he thought he was at Indian River Community College.The

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These guys are actively hiring mystery shoppers (must be a US resident over 18). Perhaps 'hiring' is the wrong word, because you don't get paid anything. However, you are given a $500 card and you get to KEEP things that you buy on assignments. I am not sure if this is strictly online mystery shopping assignments that you do from your PC or if there are some offline assignments as well, but

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SAN ANTONIO -- A candidate for Kerr County treasurer is making a single campaign promise: Elect me and I won't serve. Ed Hamilton, 77, is challenging incumbent Treasurer Mindy Williams for the Republican nomination during the March 4 election. No Democrats are seeking the office.He said the job is redundant and costing the county money it doesn't need to spend. The duties should be assigned to

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THE biggest advertiser on the Super Bowl — the most important day on the calendar for advertising as well as football — intends a back-to-basics approach, concentrating on its two top brands in humorous commercials that take a cheery, feel-good tack.Anheuser-Busch, which buys more commercial time each year in the Super Bowl than any other marketer, is likely to run seven spots in Super Bowl XLII

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British people are known for not making a fuss, so when a yachtsman had to be rescued in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, he rang his local pub rather than calling the coastguard.Suffering a suspected fractured pelvis after a fall on the deck of his boat, Alan Thompson, 61, managed to reach a satellite phone and called Roger Pocock, landlord of the Bull's Head pub in Fishbourne, West Sussex."We

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GARDEN CITY, N.Y. - Now that surgeons have operated on Stacey Gayle's brain, her favorite musician no longer makes her ill. Four years after being diagnosed with epilepsy, Gayle recently underwent brain surgery at Long Island Jewish Medical Center to cure a rare condition known as musicogenic epilepsy.Gayle, a 25-year-old customer service employee at a bank in Alberta, Canada, was suffering as

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BAD news for Coco and Blinko – British children don't like clowns and even older kids are scared of them.The news that will no doubt have clowns shedding tears was revealed in a poll of youngsters by researchers from the University of Sheffield who examined how to improve the decor of children's wards in hospitals.The study, reported in the Nursing Standard magazine, found all of the 250 patients

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1. The George W. Bush Voodoo Kit: Stick It to Him Like Hes Been Sticking It to You!2. The Celebrity Black Book: Over 55,000 Accurate Celebrity Addresses3 Tickle His Pickle: Your Hands-On Guide to Penis Pleasing4. Man to Man : Gay Attraction Body Mist 2 Oz5. SILK Micro G-String Thong Rings Panty 4 COLORS Red Cobalt Purple or Black6. JL421 Badonkadonk Land Cruiser/Tank7. Stink Bombs Box of 36 Glass

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JANESVILLE, Wis. (AP) - A Janesville couple are hoping they will be allowed to keep the nearly $12,000 in cash they found in their refrigerator when they moved into an apartment."It would be a very big help," said Colleen Mesler, 65. "We've been waiting and waiting, and nobody's called to claim it. Other people have found money and got to keep it."Mesler cried as she talked about the money she

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PickyDomains.com is giving away free books. The only condition - you have to be a blogger living in US (international shipping is WAY EXPENSIVE).Take a look at these five titles and see if one of them seems particularly attractive1. Poop Culture: How America Is Shaped by Its Grossest National Product2. Pour Your Heart into It : How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time3. The Battle for the

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A 10-year-old Mexican boy glued his hand to his bed to avoid going back to school after the Christmas break, authorities said Monday.“I thought if I was glued to the bed, they couldn’t make me go to school,” the boy, Diego, told AFP. “I didn’t want to go, the holidays were so much fun.”“I remembered my mom had bought a very strong glue,” he said of the industrial strength shoe glue he used to

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The window-washer who miraculously survived a 47-story plunge from a Manhattan skyscraper is awake and talking to family - and doctors think he will make a full recovery.Alcides Moreno, 37, spoke his first words on Christmas Day, more than two weeks after he fell 47 stories from an upper East Side apartment building."What did I do?," Moreno said in English when he was finally able to answer his

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Howdy…Let’s talk about boozing it up, shall we?I mean, tomorrow is Amateur Drunk Night, after all. The streets will be an obstacle course of big damn SUVs and expensive sedans driven by people who have just discovered — just tonight, at the big New Year’s Eve party — that they love Irish whiskey or Mai Tais or Mad Dog 20-20 or whatever… and look! it doesn’t affect their ability to drive even one

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Getting a tattoo can be a painful proposition, but usually it's just the needle you have to worry about. Two men trying to trace a loaded .357-caliber Magnum as a pattern for a tattoo accidentally shot themselves, the Otero County Sheriff's Department said Monday.Robert Glasser and Joey Acosta, both 22, were treated at a hospital in El Paso, Texas, after the shooting Thursday evening in nearby

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ALBANY, Ga. - Sounds like some south Georgia crooks have been stocking up for a big holiday bash.Thieves took tractor-trailers loaded with beer and swiped the suds twice within the past week, authorities said.Dougherty County authorities are investigating a report of a missing 53-foot-long trailer that was loaded with more than 2,300 cases of beer. Police said the beer disappeared sometime

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A statue of the infant Jesus on display near Miami in Florida is being fitted with a Global Positioning System device after the original figurine was stolen.The near-life-size figure forms part of a nativity scene in Bal Harbour.The original vanished three weeks ago, despite being bolted to the ground.Dina Cellini, who oversees the display, says the statues of Mary and Joseph will also be fitted

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ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo. — A woman stabbed her husband with a kitchen knife following an argument that began when she accused him of opening a Christmas present early, authorities said Friday.Misty Johnson, 34, was arrested and charged with aggravated assault and battery, a felony, and misdemeanor domestic battery. Her husband, Shawn Fay Johnson, 34, was treated at a hospital for a wound to the chest,

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MONTREAL (AFP) - After catching his 15-year-old smoking pot, a father sold the hard-to-get "Guitar Hero III" video game he bought his son for 90 dollars for Christmas at an online auction, fetching 9,000 dollars.The sale took place after the father spent two weeks searching for the video game for the Nintendo Wii gameboard."So I was so relieved in that I had finally got the Holy Grail of

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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - A Scottsdale man inadvertently shot himself in the buttocks Thursday morning. Scottsdale police Sgt. Mark Clark said Daniel Leatherman, 26, heard a disturbance outside his apartment and saw a man he knew fighting with a cab driver.Leatherman told police that the man, Cody Nunn, 25, had assaulted him in the past, so he grabbed his gun and went outside.Leatherman told police

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BERLIN - A man nearly died from alcohol poisoning after quaffing a liter (two pints) of vodka at an airport security check instead of handing it over to comply with new carry-on rules, police said Wednesday.The incident occurred at the Nuremberg airport on Tuesday, where the 64-year-old man was switching planes on his way home to Dresden from a holiday in Egypt.New airport rules prohibit

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A man cut off his penis with a knife in a packed London restaurant.Police were forced to use CS gas to restrain the man when they entered the Zizzi restaurant in The Strand on Sunday evening.A Metropolitan Police spokeswoman said the man was aged between 30 and 40 and that his injuries were self-inflicted.The man was then taken to hospital in south London where his condition is stable. It is

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Last fall, Larry Bell yanked the beers made by his small Michigan brewery out of Chicago, where they enjoyed a loyal following, rather than see the rights to market them there sold to another distributor. He worried that his specialty beers would get lost among the distributor's mass-market brands."I didn't feel that they were the right fit for us," says Mr. Bell, who founded his brewery, now

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HARTLEPOOL, England - The wife of a man suspected of faking his death said she would return to Britain where police plan to question her for fraud, British newspapers reported Friday.Anne Darwin told British media that she was in contact with her husband John Darwin, 57, during the five years when he was believed to be dead. She said she felt guilty for lying to her sons."I have been living my

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Brooke Ross was working at the Family Food Mart in Rutherford College, N.C., on Sunday when a man walked up to the counter with a monkey on his shoulder. It hopped down onto the counter and Ross, who said she thought the 18-inch-tall animal was cute, reached to pet him.In the blink of an eye the monkey attacked, biting her cheek just below her right eye."It bit the top of my eyelid and it just

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A college student accused of shoving a pumpkin pie into the face of a shopping-mall Santa Claus has been charged with misdemeanor assault.Clint Westwood, 22, said he "lightly smooshed" the pie into the man's face Wednesday and shouted, "What do you think of that, Santa?"Westwood, a drama student at the University of Montana, was charged Friday. He said he videotaped the encounter and plans to

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HELSINKI (Reuters) - A Finnish court ordered Santa Park in the north of the country to pay compensation to three of the underground amusement park's former elves for replacing them with temporary workers.The park -- which is located in the town of Rovaniemi on the Arctic Circle and boasts that it employs the world's only "official" Santa Claus -- has been ordered to pay the employees 5,600 euros

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Tired Ben Shire was making a cuppa when he strained his jaw so much he dislocated it.The horrified store worker, 34, collapsed in his kitchen unable to breathe or swallow.His frantic wife dialled 999 as he lay choking on his saliva.Ambulancemen rushed him to hospital with his jaw still locked – and brought him back from the brink of death using a suction device.Ben said yesterday after medics won

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A man who allegedly drank two bottles of hairspray inside a department store - apparently not for the first time - has been arrested for shoplifting.The Northwest Florida Daily News reported that a Wal-Mart employee in Okaloosa County told police he'd been trying to catch the man in the act for weeks.The store's loss prevention officer, Christopher White, reportedly told police how employees

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MADISON, Wis. (AP) - A police officer has been reprimanded for accidentally discharging a Taser, causing an injury - to the police officer.Madison police released a report Monday on the July 31 incident, without revealing the officer's name or gender. The department said the Taser accidentally discharged during a standard checkout procedure.According to a summary of the investigation, officers

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DANBURY, Conn. — A man is facing drug charges after he allegedly walked into the Danbury police station puffing on a marijuana-filled cigar.Capt. Robert Myles says Scott Snow walked into the station early Saturday and blew smoke from his cigar into a small opening in the bullet-resistant glass separating desk officers from the public.Myles says the 24-year-old man was told there's no smoking

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It's a problem that wine lovers have been whining about for years: Certain red wines can give the drinker a headache. But now help is on the way … from Mars.Researchers at University of California, Berkeley, working with NASA-funded technology designed to look for chemical signs of extra-terrestrial life on the Red Planet have created a device they say can easily detect chemicals that many

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Ozzy Osbourne has made a career out of thumbing his nose (and sometimes other appendages) at the law. The heavy-metal rocker has urinated on the Alamo, attempted to strangle his wife, and bitten the heads off a live bat and dove.At a Fargo, N.D., concert earlier this week, the law bit back. Without informing Osbourne, Cass County (N.D.) Sheriff Paul D. Laney used his name in a sting operation to

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WASHINGTON - Oh, Canada! The USA is closer than ever.The Bush administration appears to have annexed a major Canadian landmark as part of a slick new campaign to promote U.S. tourism and welcome foreign visitors to America.A Disney-produced promotional video released last week by the departments of State and Homeland Security highlights majestic American landscapes, from New England's colourful

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The 31-year old barmaid pleaded guilty in the local magistrates court to twice exposing her breasts to patrons at the Premier Hotel in Pinjarra, south of Perth.The woman "is alleged to have also crushed beer cans between her breasts during one of the offences", in breach of hotel licensing laws, police from the Peel district of Western Australia said.The barmaid and the hotel manager were both

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ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) -- Kid Rock was arrested early Sunday after a brawl at a restaurant and spent about 12 hours in jail before being released, police said. The musician stopped at the Waffle House restaurant shortly after 5 a.m. after his performance at The Tabernacle in Atlanta, authorities said."He and five members of his entourage were involved in a fight with a male customer inside the

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APOPKA, Fla. -- A man said he was just walking along an Apopka street when someone shot him, but the man didn't know what hit him until he got home and his leg went numb. The alleged shooting happened at Orange Blossom Trail and Oranole Way in Apopka, where the victim tried to get help before he was rushed to the hospital.The 26-year-old victim tried to get help at the BP gas station at the

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SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — Four officers investigating a burglary were attacked, not by a fleeing burglar, but a swarm of fleas in a filth-ridden vacant house.The tiny, biting attackers were so overwhelming that the South Bend patrolmen had to be decontaminated and ended up being sent home early from their shifts."They were all over the place — in our socks and even in our shorts. It was disgusting,

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