Programming Note for January 20, 2010
January 19, 2010
(ChattahBox) – We will be moving the site to a more powerful server tomorrow, Wednesday morning US EST, on January 20, 2010. In the meantime we will not be able to do further updates until the switch is made but things should be back to normal in a few hours or so and we hope the migration will help ensure ChattahBox.com will have minimal downtime in the future.
A Look at Google’s New Nexus One Handset
January 5, 2010
(ChattahBox) – Google unveiled the Nexus One on Tuesday at an invitation-only event at its California headquarters, marking the online search giant’s first leap into the smartphone market. The phone already available are sold only through a Web store operated by Google, and cost $180 with a contract with T-Mobile or $530 unlocked (the phone works with “nearly all” GSM SIM cards, according to Google), leaving the phone open to other carriers. T-Mobile is the initial service provider, but Verizon in the United States and Vodafone in Europe will be coming on board later, and more operators are expected. The new handset reflects Google’s effort to expand advertising sales on mobile devices, a market that may reach $2 billion to $3 billion in the U.S. by 2013, according to Sanford C. Bernstein & Co.
Read more
Beck Spreads Dubious Rumor to Claim: Obama Uses ‘Chicago Thuggery’ ‘That Borders on Treason’
December 17, 2009
(ChattahBox)— Glenn Beck, the fearmongering Fox News host, has finally gone too far. Earlier in the year he accused President Obama of being a racist with a deep seated hatred of white people. On Wednesday, Beck went off the rails and he accused President Obama of treason. The conspiracy-theorist-in-chief devoted his Fox News program to peddling a dubious right-wing rumor that the Obama administration threatened Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE) with the closure of Nebraska’s Offutt Air Force Base, to obtain his vote on health care reform. The highly dubious and poorly sourced rumor started on right-wing blogs and was repeated by Weekly Standard columnist Michael Goldfarb. Both Sen. Nelson and the White House House have categorically denied the false rumor, but that hasn’t stopped Glenn Beck from presenting it as fact and to use it to accuse the President of the United States of treason. Read more
EPA never implemented the Clean Water Act and Now Blames States
September 16, 2009
Opinion/Editorial by guest writer: Peter Maier, PhD, PE
(ChattahBox) — When Congress passed the Clean Water Act in 1972, with its goal to eliminate
all water pollution by 1985 and as interim goal ’swimmable and fishable’
waters by 1983, Congress specifically demanded a “technology-based”
implementation program, whereby all national permits would require “best
available treatment technology”. A water-quality based program (treatment
based on water quality of receiving waters) would be too easy to manipulate by
local politicians and basically defeat the purpose (setting national treatment
standards) of the Act. Read more
THOSE SIX COMFORTING WORDS – A Tribute to the Rhinovirus
September 1, 2009
(ChattahBox) — Facemasks, pandemic, vaccines, anti-bacterial hand sanitizers … it wasn’t always like this. As the country braces for the arrival of another fall flu season, and the unwelcome possibility of confronting an evolved and more virulent version of swine flu, I am called back to a kinder gentler time, and a kinder gentler virus – one that kept us company for many a cold winter day and that, like the polar bear and the other 12,258 endangered species, is now being threatened with extinction. It appears that researchers have hunted down and decoded the genomes for the 99 strains of the rhinovirus (DBA “the common cold”) and have developed a catalog of its vulnerabilities. “We are now quite certain that we see the Achilles’ heel, and that a very effective treatment for the common cold is at hand,” said Stephen B. Liggett, co-author of research published earlier this year in Science magazine and reported in The New York Times.
Read more
KFC tests new breadless sandwich with ‘bun’ of fried chicken
August 25, 2009
(ChattahBox) — While the “Rethink KFC” commercial campaign to date, has been focused on rebranding the company with healthy products, there’s a new offering by the colonel that has taken a different direction. KFC is now offering on a limited basis, a special “sandwich,” called the “Double Down”, which consists of bacon, two kinds of cheeses, Pepperjack Cheese and Swiss Cheese with special sauce between two pieces of fried chicken acting as a bun.
According to Fox News, the “Double Down” is being test-marketed in only two areas so far, Rhode Island and Omaha, Nebraska and sells for $6.99.
Cuneiform Tablets Uncovered in 2,700-year Old Turkish Temple
August 12, 2009
(ChattahBox)—A team of archaeologists from the University of Toronto are sifting through the sands of time in the remains of an ancient Turkish temple, 2,700-years-old, that began as a holy Neo-Hittite site, named Tell Ta’yinat. Deep in the temple’s cella, or ‘holy of holies,’ the archaeologists made a discovery of a lifetime, uncovering a store of ancient cuneiform tablets, dating to the Iron Age period between 1200 and 600 BCE. Read more
Nissan unveils electric five-seat hatchback “Leaf”
August 2, 2009
Japan (ChattahBox) — Nissan Motor Co unveiled its first all electric car on Sunday, named Nissan Leaf. Japan’s third-biggest car maker by sales volume will roll out the zero-emission five-seat hatchback car in late 2010 in the U.S., Europe and Japan. Read more
Author Reveals Restaurant Secrets – Is KFC Secret Recipe One of Them?
July 22, 2009
US (ChattahBox) – Want to get out and eat at your favorite restaurant, but don’t have the money to spend? No worries, you can now make your favorite dishes at home, thanks to Chef Ron Douglas.
‘Warrior Gene’ Fuels Gang Membership, Male Gun Violence
June 8, 2009
(ChattahBox)— A new study for the first time, links the so called “warrior gene,” a variant of Monoamine oxidase A or MAOA, to gun violence and gang membership in boys who have it. Male gang members with the gene variant are also more likely to become the most violent gun-toting members in a gang. Read more