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Marie Callender's Tricked Bloggers With Frozen Lasagna Meal They Thought Was Made By Celebrity Chef George Duran
Just because something tastes good does not mean it is good for you. I am with the bloggers: I will never knowingly eat food that is full of preservatives and chemical taste enhancers because they frequently do make me physically ill. I would be very angry if I found out I had been tricked into eating something I would otherwise never have touched. I've had mystery bad reactions to foods at several restaurants, and guess what? I don't eat at those restaurants. ConAgra is a name I consistently avoid when buying food at the supermarket, too, due to the large amount of chemicals typically found in their products. But you really have to read the fine print on the labels because ConAgra uses a lot of other names on the packaging. I've gotten to where I read every label, every time because ingredients and who owns a brand name tend to change rapidly.
Report: Government Lost As Much As $60 Billion To Waste, Fraud In War Contracts
What is being done to recoup the losses and prosecute the culpable?
Texas Ups Speed Limit To 85 MPH
*sigh* We are about to find out how many vehicles in Texas have bad tires, bad alignment, defective running gear, and overconfident, slow-thinking/reacting drivers. Watch out for flying rubber as the recaps throw tread and the cheapo tires' sidewalls disintegrate. Tire shops typically spin balance up to 60 mph unless you specifically ask them to go higher, and I've had a shop refuse to do this because they said it is too hazardous in case a tire comes apart at the higher speed (made me wonder what they thought of the tires they were selling).
Force multiplies with speed, so the loads on a car's suspension, steering, tires and brakes will be much greater at 85 mph than they were at 65 mph, so parts that were hanging together at 65 might fail catastrophically at 85. Because the force multiplies, it also means that any accident or driving error at speed will transfer more force to the passengers and be more likely to make the vehicle flip. I also want to know if there are any crash test results for vehicles with engineered "crumple zones" at this speed.
As for 5 MPH slower at night - that's a kludge to try to get people to not drive faster than their headlight's reach + reaction time will allow. It makes total sense to drive slower at night because that's when critters, drunks, and crazies are most likely to dart in front of your car. At 85 MPH, I'm wondering if even in daytime, many people won't find themselves driving faster than their reaction/decision making times.
Line Your Samsung Oven With Aluminum Foil, Void Your Warranty
I used to line my ovens with foil; it is a common practice for both gas and electric ovens and has been for years. I found that it was more effective to just put a cookie sheet under the dish, so I stopped lining with foil about a decade ago. I would not have thought to look for instructions on this, either, although I am a paranoid manual reader and probably would have seen the warning.
I want to know what material this oven is made out of that it melted...what else could it be but PLASTIC? Holey moley, I would not have that POS in my house. Plastics, when heated, release volatiles, none of which should have anything to do with food.
Study: Sprint Smartphone Users Hog The Most Data
Interesting. If anything, my Sprint data usage is lower than I expect. Perhaps your cousin has an app that is more data intensive than expected, or the phone has been hacked?
Study: Sprint Smartphone Users Hog The Most Data
Sprint has a lot of business users, and can expect these customers to be heavy data users. I use a lot of data because I use my Android as a wireless modem for my netbook, and occasionally for my desktop computer if the DSL goes out or is running too slow to be useful. Even though I live in a fringe coverage area, I have fast service on 3G, and 4G is extremely fast when I'm in an area that supports it.
Figure Out Which Model This Maytag Oven Is
That oven looks very similar to a Whirlpool oven I bought second-hand. It also flashed a mysterious error code, beeped loudly, and refused to work although nothing seemed to be wrong. I Googled around and found a fix, which you might try: Open the top panel where the controls are. Inside, if your oven is similar to mine, is a mylar flat cable. Remove it from the connector (study how to open the connector clamp before you give it a yank), clean it with a plain pink pencil eraser, and reseat it. It fixed mine.
Department Of Justice, Four States File Fraud Suit Against For-Profit College Company
Hanging on my wall are three certificates (diploma, special recognition, top graduate) from Hallmark Institute in San Antonio, Texas, where I got an AAS in Electronics Technology back in the 80s. Yes it was totally worth it even though I entered the job market just as the major employer I had arranged to work for upon graduation went out of business. I spent a decade doing electronics-related work, which I leveraged into doing drafting, and then technical writing, and then technical project management.
My story isn't typical because I did two things: first, I required the school to let me sit in on some actual classes before I signed up. If they won't let you, that's a red flag. This allowed me to determine that the classes were real classes, teaching things that would be useful in the real world. Second, I worked my tail off, was self-motivated, and marketed the hell out of myself. Sometimes I said I could do things when I sort of couldn't but believed I could fake it long enough to figure it out. I then busted my butt to make good on it. Most people who go to these tech schools don't have that kind of motivation and want to be spoon-fed everything, so they blame the school.
The problem I had was with scammy student loan servicers. There needs to be a special place in hell for them.
Squirrels Do 17% Of The Damage To Fiber Optic Networks
A friend had their buried TV cable hookup dug up and and eaten by squirrels. The tech said that the squirrels identify the plastic cladding as food because some part of its chemical makeup is derived from peanuts.
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Ben Popken Says Farewell To Consumerist.com
Thanks Ben, and good luck on your new pursuits. Following you. In a totally nonstalking way. ;o)