- In 1921, Walter A. Anderson (a short-order cook) and E.W. Ingram (an insurance executive) founded White Castle in Wichita, Kansas. It is the oldest hamburger chain. They served steam-fried hamburgers, 18 per pound of fresh ground beef, cooked on a bed of chopped onions, for a nickel.
- The Big Mac was introduced in 1968. The price was 49 cents.
- 1999 there were more than 25,000 McDonald's in 115 countries.
- Hamburgers and Cheeseburgers comprise 71% of the beef servings in commercial restaurants. (2001)
- Burgers account for 40% of all sandwiches sold. (2001)
- 8.2 Billion burgers were served in commercial restaurants in 2001.
- 65% of all hamburgers and cheeseburgers are consumed away from home. (2001)
- The record for the largest hamburger is in Seymour, Wisconsin in 1989 and that the weight was over 5000 lbs. To this day it is uncontested.
- The Hamburger hall of fame is located in Seymour, Wisconsin.
BURGER SUPER FACTS
BEFORE YOU'RE FAT ASS MAKES A LATE NIGHT RUN TO BURGER KING...READ UP ON SOME SUPER FACTS. WARNING: DON'T EAT YOUR GREASEY HAMBURGER OVER THE COMPUTER AS YOU READ THIS.
- June is the biggest month for beef sales in restaurants, with nearly 800 million pounds of beef consumed in this month alone in 2005.
- Denny's Beer Barrel Pub in Clearfield, Pennsylvania has offered a 6 pound hamburger, named Ye Olde 96er (6 pounds = 96 ounces) since 1998. It comes garnished with 2 whole tomatoes, 1/2 head of lettuce, 12 slices of American cheese, a cup of peppers, 2 whole onions, plus large quantities of mayonnaise, ketchup and mustard. No one has been able to finish one.
- Liberty Cabbage was the alternative name created during World War I, used to refer to Sauerkraut, to avoid using words from the enemies language. A hamburger was referred to as a 'Liberty Sandwich,' and German Measles were 'Liberty Measles.'
- On average, Americans eat 3 hamburgers a week.
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SLAYER
This little girl has good parents.
KIDS
Perhaps unable to memorize semi-words such as "Ne" and "Ef" like the rest of the field, a young Scrabble playerwas booted from the game's national championship tournament in Florida after he was caught cheating in one of the final rounds, reports the Associated Press. Tournament officials did not name the male player because he's a minor. He was busted when a competitor at a nearby table spotted him with a pair of blank tiles — which players can use to represent any letter — that he had kept from the previous game. "It's unfortunate," said John D. Williams Jr., executive director of the National Scrabble Association. "The Scrabble world is abuzz. The Internet is abuzz." Just like a Scrabble nut, Williams must have been trying to discard all his Zs.
Scrabble Finalist Cheats.
By: Bret Smiley
Source: NYMag.com
Adam West is an American actor; he has a net worth of $30 million. Adam West has built his net worth from acting roles such as Batman 1960’s series, and a movie also named Batman. Born in Seattle, Washington, West has also appeared in well-known movies like The Young Philadelphians, and Robinson Crusoe on Mars. Today he is doing voice work on The Fairly OddParents and Family Guy, animated series for children.
ADAM WEST: NET WORTH 30 MILLION BITCH!
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The reports focus on low paid Cuban medical personnel allegedly treating patients who pay under the table to receive better care than that available from the public health system, which is the island’s only legal option.
Elective surgeries, including a range of cosmetic plastic surgery, are also said to be commonplace – at a price.
According to Miami physician Julio Alfonso, Cubans living in South Florida often pay in dollars to improve the care of relatives on the island or undergo medical procedures themselves during visits to the country to avoid the high costs of health care in the United States.
Doctors in Cuba, where the government controls the entire health system, have long provided better treatment to patients who could give them “a little gift,” said the father of a gynaecologist outside Havana. “But it has been a matter of a pig or a chicken.”
But after the Soviet Union ended its subsidies to the island in the early 1990s, the public health system began to deteriorate and medical personnel started to offer more complex procedures for cash, usually US dollars.
Word of the Calixto Garcia Hospital investigation has been circulating in Havana for weeks. The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and the blogs Havana Times and Diario de Cuba have all posted reports on the case.
Havana human rights activist Elizardo Sánchez said he had confirmed reports that five to 12 medical personnel had been detained for interrogation and sent home to await the prosecutors’ decisions. They were alleged to have performed relatively simple procedures, such as plastic surgeries and abortions, on paying patients in public hospitals.
Reports out of Cuba indicate that a number of doctors, nurses and other medical professionals have been interrogated by police for allegedly treating private, paying patients in public hospitals and running post-operative recovery rooms in private homes.
Personnel from the Calixto García Hospital and the Workers’ Maternity Hospital are said to be among those under investigation.
HOSPITAL SCAM: IN CUBA
Breast and Butt Jobs exposed in medical scam in Cuba.
Havana human rights activist Elizardo Sánchez said he had confirmed reports that five to 12 medical personnel had been detained for interrogation and sent home to await the prosecutors’ decisions.
Via: Carribean 360
Addiction to morphine and heroin can be blocked, according to research released on Wednesday which could prove a major breakthrough in treating addicts and in pain relief treatments. Researchers at the University of Adelaide in Australia worked with colleagues at the University of Colorado in the United States to pinpoint a key mechanism in the body's immune system that amplifies addiction to opioid drugs.
"Our studies have shown conclusively that we can block addiction via the immune system of the brain, without targeting the brain's wiring," said Mark Hutchinson from Adelaide's School of Medical Sciences.
"Both the central nervous system and the immune system play important roles in creating addiction, but our studies have shown we only need to block the immune response in the brain to prevent cravings for opioid drugs."
The results, to be published Thursday in the Journal of Neuroscience, reveal that laboratory studies showed that the drug known as plus-naloxone, which is not yet in clinical use, will selectively block the immune-addiction response.
The researchers said that opioid drugs such as morphine and heroin bind to immune receptors in the brain known as TLR4 which then act as amplifiers for addiction, ramping up the "reward" effect of drugs of abuse to a high degree.
The new drug automatically shuts this effect down, Hutchinson said.
"It really reduces the reward level down to the equivalent of food, sex, and hugs," he told AFP.
Professor Linda Watkins, from the Center for Neuroscience at the University of Colorado, said the work fundamentally changed understanding about opioids, reward and addiction. --- Keep reading this story
BLOCKING
HEROIN
Source: Bangkok Post
Name: Soo Joo
Occupation: Model
Hometown: Seoul, Korea
Current Location: LAX en route to JFK
Astrological Sign: Sun in Aries and Moon in Taurus
What’s the best thing about summer? In the summer I eat ice cream on a cone everyday!
Where is your favorite holiday destination? Big Sur, California.
What are the best and worst things about your job? BEST: variance from quotidian day job
WORST: daily undergoing of judgments and rejections based on your physical attributes.
What will you do when you retire? Be a kooky lady that wears Comme des Garçons and Junya Watanabe.
What did you dream about last night?
I couldn’t sleep last night.
What rocks your world? Love.
What makes you laugh? Kittens.
SOME
SOO
JOO
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Source: Cocktail Party
Twin brothers and designers R&E Praspaliauskas have designed a collection of shoes made of bread. Called Bread Shoes (of course), the products come in a variety of designs and dough recipes.
Bread Shoes
Here’s what the designers say:
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That’s right, boys and girls! Put some romance in your “loaf” life!
Source: De Zeen
By: R&E Praspaliauskas
"I have all the characteristics of a human being: blood, flesh, skin, hair; but not a single, clear, identifiable emotion, except for greed and disgust. Something horrible is happening inside of me and I don't know why. My nightly bloodlust has overflown into my days. I feel lethal, on the verge of frenzy. I think my mask of sanity is about to slip."
- Patrick Bateman (American Psycho)
Your morning cup of coffee may start to taste even better after a major government study found that frequent coffee drinkers have a lower risk of dying from a variety of diseases, compared with people who drink little or no coffee.
The report, published online in The New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday, analyzed the coffee-drinking habits of more than 400,000 men and women ages 50 to 71, making it the largest-ever study of the relationship between coffee consumption and health.
Previous studies have offered conflicting results on the relative benefits or harms associated with regular coffee consumption. While coffee contains caffeine, a stimulant that may temporarily increase heart rate and blood pressure in some people, coffee also contains hundreds of unique compounds and antioxidants that may confer health benefits. Further confusing much of the research into coffee is the fact that many coffee drinkers are also smokers, and it has been difficult to untangle the relative health effects of coffee and cigarettes.
To learn more, researchers from the National Institutes of Health analyzed diet and health information collected from questionnaires filled out by 229,119 men and 173,141 women who were members of the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) between 1995 and 1996. The respondents were followed until 2008, by which point 52,000 had died.
As expected, the researchers found that the regular coffee drinkers in the group were also more likely to be smokers. They ate more red meat and fewer fruits and vegetables, exercised less and drank more alcohol – all behaviors associated with poor health. ------ Keep reading this article
DRINK COFFEE:
LIVE LONGER. YAY!
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Lost for 1,600 years, the royal quarters of Cleopatra were discovered off the shores of Alexandria. A team of marine archaeologists, led by Frenchman, Franck Goddio, began excavating the ancient city in 1998. Historians believe the site was submerged by earthquakes and tidal waves, yet, astonishingly, several artifacts remained largely intact. Amongst the discoveries were the foundations of the palace, shipwrecks, red granite columns, and statues of the goddess Isis and a sphinx. The Egyptian Government plans to create an underwater museum and hold tours of the site.
The "Real"
LOST CITY?
Cleopatra’s Kingdom, Alexandria, Egypt
If you’ve seen The Dark Knight, you likely know we’re talking about the scenes that show the Joker issuing threats and warnings through recordings done with a camcorder.
The most recognizable line to come from these scenes is when the Joker says "Tonight, people are going to die." Chris Nolan trusted Heath Ledger with these so much that he wasn’t even present during some of the last shootings of the scenes.
Ledger shot and directed them almost completely by himself. The first video had a bit more help. The lighting guy and the sound guys came in to set everything up, but ultimately Nolan was so impressed that after the first shoot he handed the camera to Ledger and said “do whatever you want.”
Apparently, Ledger got so into it that every single take he did was different from the last. In making The Dark Knight, Nolan didn’t want to make a bland sequel and strived to only do what works.
So devoted was Nolan to this film that there isn’t a single deleted scene. He only shot scenes that had at least three reasons to be in the film to ensure that everything would be equally important and nothing would waste time.
How Ledger Directed
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He might be the next Vice President of the United States and all people care about is his chest??? No wonder people vote for Obama.
Fucking clueless idiots
Paul Ryan
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