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POPSPagans Botch Winter Solstice Celebration A crowd of hundreds of polytheists showed up at Stonehenge at the crack of dawn in freezing temperatures to celebrate the winter solstice, the most important pagan holiday of the year. Unfortunately, they were a day early. The Gods did not take pity on them, however, and Zeus has vowed to smite those that put their ignorance regarding their "religion" on display for all to see...
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POPSPenny Auction Strategy Tips Penny Auctions require strategy before you start bidding. If you just jump in without much preparation you are going to loose your money.
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POPSJobless rate at 9.7 pct.; 216K jobs lost in Aug. If laid-off workers who have settled for part-time work or have given up looking for new jobs are included, the so-called underemployment rate reached 16.8 percent, the highest on records dating from 1994. That rate rose because the number of workers settling for part-time hours, either because their employer cut their work week or because that's all they could find, increased by about 300,000.
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POPSShocker! Obama Health Care Infomercial Bombs in the Ratings.... ABC's White House special struggled for viewers President Obama's town hall meeting on health care delivered a sickly rating Wednesday evening. The one-hour ABC News special "Primetime: Questions for the President: Prescription for America" (4.7 million viewers, 1.1 preliminary adults 18-49 rating) had the fewest viewers in the 10 p.m. hour (against NBC's "The Philanthropist" debut and a repeat of "CSI: NY" on CBS). The special tied some 8 p.m. comedy repeats as the lowest-rated program on a major broadcast network. UPDATE: ABC points out that "Questions for the President" continued after the local news during late night on "Nightline" (4.3 million) and helped boost the news program to pull more viewers than CBS' "Late Show" and NBC's "Tonight Show."
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POPSIssuers Slashing Card Balances "And there can be a Catch-22: those with the fewest assets are the likeliest to receive a settlement offer, but they are also the least able to come up with the cash for that final negotiated payment. Some creditors, though, are helpfully letting people stretch this out over months."
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POPScycling and helmets Strange but true, The protective effect of bike helmets is much smaller than people realise, according to Cyclist.ie, the Irish national cycling lobby group.
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POPSLet's see what humans can do What world record are you capable of setting? We believe every person on earth has potential to be the world's best 'something'. URDB's mission is to become the database where all such achievements will live.
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POPSArchitects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth The official story of what happened in New York that day doesn't match up with the laws of physics. This site lays out the case, by professionals who study & teach this stuff for a living, that the three towers that collapsed that day were brought down by controlled demolition, given the evidence and the laws of physics. There's quite an extensive bit of evidence laid out. Take a look a for yourself and determine which answer it supports. Occam's Razor says that when there are competing explanations for a phenomenon of equal strength, the one making the fewest assumptions is more likely to be correct. Without assuming anything, look at the evidence and the arguments put forth. See what conclusion you come to. When you remove "Oh, that couldn't be..." from the discussion and just look at the evidence, one theory seems to make more sense.
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POPSRanked Choice Voting - Pierce County What the results fail to illuminate is that when exhausted ballots are included (ballots where at least one vote was cast in a particular race), neither McCarthy or Washam received a majority. This system was arduous at best and did not lead to the "clear majority" touted by proponents.
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POPSSubstantive Presidential Debates Are Hard to Find
Overall, 32% of the questions asked in debates were non-substantive; Only 9% of the questions concerned the economy. The debates hosted by PBS and Univision were the most substantive, with 100% and 82% substantive questions respectively. Fox and ABC hosted the least substantive debates; fewer than half the questions were substantive. The front-running candidates in both parties were more likely to be asked questions focused on trivia, while the candidates trailing badly in the polls were more likely to be asked substantive questions. For example, 73 percent of the questions posed to Dennis Kucinich were substantive, while only 51 percent of the questions given to Barack Obama were substantive, and only 59 percent of the questions for John McCain were substantive. Of those who moderated more than one debate, Salinas and Ramos of Univision asked the most substantive questions (88% and 73%, respectively). Chris Wallace of Fox (33%) asked the fewest substantive questions.
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POPSPublic sector absenteeism Public sector workers take more days off than private sector workers, wir health workers taking most time off. Teachers take the least time off. Northerners take off more time than southerners.
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POPSHeart Healthiest Places To Live... The American Heart Association says Minneapolis, Washington, D.C., and San Francisco are the three most heart healthy U.S. metros for women. Down at the bottom of the list are Nashville, Tenn., St. Louis and Detroit. The comprehensive ranking took into account 22 different factors that affect women's heart health, ranging from exercise to high blood pressure. So what does this mean for you? In terms of trends, the list shows that if you're a woman living in the South or Midwest you may have a higher risk of heart disease and stroke. The experts say the problem in these regions is due to all too many fast-food joints, a tendency to drive rather than walk and high smoking rates. Do you live in one of these cities? What do you think - is this an accurate description? Are you particularly worried about heart disease?
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POPSBad Days For Pharma Lowest rate of sales growth since 1961. Cholesterol drug market shrinks 15%. New, innovative medicines generate only $441 million, according to IMS Health.
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POPS'Promiscuity leads to lower grades' The poll comes only months after it was claimed Cambridge students were working as prostitutes, strippers and escorts to earn extra money. According to reports, some female students work as call girls and lapdancers while others are said to be signed up to a local escort agency.
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