In 1942, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered liquidation of the Works Progress Administration, created during the Great Depression to provide work for the unemployed. Seems to me that worked better than unemployment checks.
In 1941, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor.
In 1768, Encyclopedia Britannica was first published.
In 1954, the first Burger King fast-food restaurant opened in Miami.
In 1975, the US Senate authorized a $2.3 billion emergency loan to save New York City from bankruptcy.
In 2009, the US unemployment rate fell to 10 percent in November, down from its peak of 10.2 percent in October. Analysts called the jobs report the strongest since the recession began two years earlier.
In 2010, the US unemployment rate went up to 9.8% in November, from 9.6% in October.
In 1929, the Ford Motor Co. raised the pay of its employees from $5 to $7 a day despite the collapse of the US stock market.
In 1967, Dr. Christiaan Barnard performed the first successful heart transplant at Cape Town, South Africa.
Dec 7, 2010
Michael Jackson Earnings
He made $275 million last year, beating all living and dead entertainers as top earner. Too bad he couldn't keep that up while he was alive. Incidentally, Einstein's estate took in $10 million.
Executive Pay Check
Washington Mutual CEO Alan Fishman did well. When WaMu failed and was seized by government regulators, Fishman had been on the job for just 17 days. However, he was contractually guaranteed $11.6 million in cash severance on top of the $7.5 million signing bonus he got for taking the job. He netted just under $20 million for 17 days of work. Not bad for the head of a collapsing corporation.
Dec 3, 2010
Happy Friday
Health is the greatest gift,
contentment the greatest wealth,
faithfulness the best relationship.
I am content with my health because I am faithful to having a Happy Friday!
contentment the greatest wealth,
faithfulness the best relationship.
I am content with my health because I am faithful to having a Happy Friday!
Download YouTube Videos
Did you know there are a number of web sites that allow you to download YouTube Videos? Here is one that I have used. LINK You just paste in the web address and download. It also allows you to convert to other formats as you download. You can convert to mp3, mp4, avi, and a number of other formats. You can even convert to use on your phone. It converts and sends you an email of the file.
Happy People
7 Up
Like most soft drinks, 7 Up started with other ingredients than we have now. It originally contained lithium, which was widely marketed as one of a number of patent medicine products popular in the late-19th and early-20th centuries. Charles Leiper Grigg invented a formula for a lemon-lime soft drink in 1929. The product was originally named "Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda", and was launched two weeks before the Wall Street Crash of 1929.
It contained the mood stabilizer lithium citrate and was marketed as a hangover cure. Its name was soon changed to 7 Up. The name is derived from the atomic mass of lithium (approximately seven daltons). Lithium citrate was removed from 7 Up's formula in 1950. It was also used in early formulations of Coke.
Lithium citrate is a chemical compound of lithium and citrate that is used as a mood stabilizer in psychiatric treatment of manic states and bipolar disorder. Now lithium citrate is sold as Litarex and Demalit.
It contained the mood stabilizer lithium citrate and was marketed as a hangover cure. Its name was soon changed to 7 Up. The name is derived from the atomic mass of lithium (approximately seven daltons). Lithium citrate was removed from 7 Up's formula in 1950. It was also used in early formulations of Coke.
Lithium citrate is a chemical compound of lithium and citrate that is used as a mood stabilizer in psychiatric treatment of manic states and bipolar disorder. Now lithium citrate is sold as Litarex and Demalit.
Fizzy Bacon
Expensive Effective Placebos
The more expensive your pain medications are, the better the relief you get from taking them, even if they are fake. That's according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, which suggests that sugar pills labeled as expensive drugs relieve pain better than sugar pills labeled as discounted drugs.
According to the authors, marketing actions, such as pricing, can alter the actual efficacy of products to which they are applied. In three experiments, the authors show that consumers who pay a discounted price for a product may derive less actual benefit from consuming this product than consumers who purchase and consume the exact same product, but pay its regular price.
According to the authors, marketing actions, such as pricing, can alter the actual efficacy of products to which they are applied. In three experiments, the authors show that consumers who pay a discounted price for a product may derive less actual benefit from consuming this product than consumers who purchase and consume the exact same product, but pay its regular price.
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