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Sat, 12/18/2010 - 10:13 by Rick Aristotle ...
Stupidity is contagious. It gets us all from time to time. Even respectable companies can catch it. As I do every week, let's take a look at five dumb financial events this week that may make your head spin. |
Thu, 12/02/2010 - 11:21 by Prince damin
Blacksburg, Va. -- JaJuan Johnson hit a hook shot with 8 seconds left in regulation Wednesday and No. 18 Purdue held on in overtime to defeat Virginia Tech 58-55.
Johnson's shot at the end of the second half brought about a 51-51 tie and Malcolm Delaney missed a jumper at the buzzer that would have won it for the Hokies. Johnson also put Purdue in front for good with 1:27 to go in overtime with a jumper.
Virginia Tech did not score over the final 1:45 of the extra period.
Johnson scored a season-high 29 points in helping Purdue (6-1) bounce back from a loss to Richmond Saturday.
E'Twaun Moore added 14 for the Boilermakers, who were playing their first road game of the season.
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Thu, 12/02/2010 - 11:21 by Prince damin
Blacksburg, Va. -- JaJuan Johnson hit a hook shot with 8 seconds left in regulation Wednesday and No. 18 Purdue held on in overtime to defeat Virginia Tech 58-55.
Johnson's shot at the end of the second half brought about a 51-51 tie and Malcolm Delaney missed a jumper at the buzzer that would have won it for the Hokies. Johnson also put Purdue in front for good with 1:27 to go in overtime with a jumper.
Virginia Tech did not score over the final 1:45 of the extra period.
Johnson scored a season-high 29 points in helping Purdue (6-1) bounce back from a loss to Richmond Saturday.
E'Twaun Moore added 14 for the Boilermakers, who were playing their first road game of the season.
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Wed, 12/01/2010 - 06:26 by Prince damin
Los Angeles -- Infielder Juan Uribe left the world champion San Francisco Giants for the Los Angeles Dodgers Tuesday, lured by a reported $21 million deal.
The Los Angeles Times reported Uribe will get the money over three years.
Uribe, who plays several infield positions, hit .248 with 24 home runs and 85 RBI last season. The 31-year-old is a career .256 hitter with 151 homers and 599 RBI in 1,256 games with the Chicago White Sox, Giants and Colorado.
Uribe also was on the White Sox' 2005 World Series champion team.
Copyright 2010 United Press International, Inc. (UPI).
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Thu, 11/25/2010 - 10:00 by Prince damin
Melbourne -- An Australian woman was in a hospital after being run over by her own car -- twice, authorities said.
The woman, from the Melbourne suburb of Noble Park, was hit in her driveway Wednesday afternoon when her car rolled backward out of the driveway.
The car then crossed the road, struck a fence and bounced back, hitting the woman again.
Paramedics treated the woman at the scene and took her to hospital where she was in serious condition. Police did not release the woman's name.
Copyright 2010 United Press International, Inc. (UPI).
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Fri, 10/15/2010 - 05:36 by Prince damin
Portland, Ore. -- A landscape architect hired to tend a two-acre urban lot in Oregon said the goats he brought in to control the lawn have been a hit with locals.
Brett Milligan, who was hired to tend the Portland lot by real estate agency Killian Pacific, said he brought in about 50 goats from Goat Rental NW of Damascus about two weeks ago and attention from the public has yet to die down, The (Portland) Oregonian reported Thursday.
"I thought things would kind of die down in terms of public interest, but it hasn't at all," Milligan said.
Georgina Stiner, president of Goat Rental NW, said interest in using goats to control grass has been growing recently.
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Wed, 10/13/2010 - 07:59 by Prince damin
Chicago -- Chicago Blackhawks defenseman Niklas Hjalmarsson has been suspended for two games following a questionable hit, ESPNChicago.com reported Tuesday.
The Web site, citing a source familiar with the situation, said Hjalmarsson was disciplined after his hit on Buffalo Sabres forward Jason Pominville Monday resulted in Pominville being taken off the ice on a stretcher.
Pominville sustained a gash in his head and was diagnosed with a concussion after the hit along the glass in the Blackhawks' 4-3 win.
Hjalmarsson received a 5-minute penalty and a game misconduct for the hit.
Copyright 2010 United Press International, Inc. (UPI).
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Wed, 08/11/2010 - 06:10 by Prince damin
Washington -- NASA says it is considering a mission to land a probe on an asteroid that could hit the Earth in two centuries to learn more about its possible path.
An analysis of the orbit of asteroid 1999 RQ36 says it will come closest to hitting Earth -- scientists put the odds at 1-in-1,000 -- in the year 2182, but researchers want to collect a sample of the rock to help forecast its trajectory more accurately, Britain's Daily Telegraph reported Tuesday.
If NASA approves the mission, the spacecraft would launch in 2016 to map out and collect rock samples from the 1,800-foot-wide asteroid.
The proposed mission, called OSIRIS-Rex, is one of two finalists competing for funding as part of the cash-strapped space agency's New Frontiers program.
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Wed, 08/11/2010 - 05:25 by Prince damin
New York -- A New Jersey man says he is suing the New York Mets baseball team and two of its players after getting hit in the face by a broken bat.
James Falzon, 50, was hit by pieces of a bat swung by Luis Castillo at a game three years ago, and now he's suing the second baseman -- and the player who lent him the bat, the New York Post reported Monday.
Falzon is suing Castillo, teammate Ramon Castro, whose bat it was, the Mets, Major League Baseball and the bat's maker, Rawlings, for the incident that left him bloodied and required metal plates in his head.
Falzon's lawyer said Castro's bat was made out of maple, which can shatter more dramatically and dangerously than traditional ash bats.
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Mon, 06/21/2010 - 10:17 by Pankaj Damin
Lapeer, Mich. -- A Michigan man has the close call of a lifetime this week, escaping with only a scratch when a speeding train barreled into his car, authorities say.
The Lapeer County Sheriff's Office said witnesses recounted seeing James Brimmer, 26, of Flint drive around a lowered railroad crossing gate with signals activated Friday morning only to be struck by an Amtrak passenger train, the Detroit Free Press reported.
The train, traveling at an estimated 60-65 mph, tore Brimmer's car in half, the newspaper said.
"He survived, and it's just an amazing thing that he did," Sgt. Craig Miller of the Sheriff's Office said.
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Mon, 06/21/2010 - 09:59 by Pankaj Damin
Toronto -- Freddy Sanchez hit a three-run homer to spark a sixth-inning rally Sunday and the San Francisco Giants came back to down Toronto 9-6 in an inter-league game.
Trailing 3-2, Edgar Renteria walked and Aaron Rowand doubled off Toronto reliever Brian Tallet (1-3) to begin the frame for the Giants. One out later Angel Torres delivered an RBI single to tie the contest.
Sanchez then followed with a home run that struck the left field foul pole.
After Casey Janssen came in to relieve, Juan Uribe drove in Aubrey Huff with a double, completing the rally and enabling the Giants to salvage one contest of a three-game series at Rogers Center.
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Sat, 06/12/2010 - 11:13 by Pankaj Damin
Elmont, N.Y. -- Rumors of Sarah Palin receiving breast implants have been circulating in U.S. Web sites since pictures were taken at a New York state horse race.
Palin, the former governor of Alaska and 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate, appeared last month at the Belmont Stakes race in Elmont and many bloggers said the photos taken at the event appear to depict Palin with a larger than usual chest, the New York Daily News reported Friday.
"Sarah Palin sure looks like she was trotting out some new work at the horse races," blogger Wonkette joked.
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