Utah T.V. Personality Pleads Guilty to Punting Owl While Paragliding

July 24, 2015 Hastings and Hastings
A one Dell Schanze, who goes by the nickname, “Super Dell,” gained small town fame as the TV pitchman for a business called “Totally Awesome Computers.” Super Dell’s ads are over the top (to say the least), and for anyone interested in his antics, here is a good place to start. Although a colorful...
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TSA Fails 67 out of 70 Security Tests

July 23, 2015 Hastings and Hastings
Scoring this on a standardized test would almost be theoretically impossible if one was to summon the law of large numbers.  If you scored this on a fill in the blank test, your professor might have suspicious that you are smoking reefer. But what can you say about TSA’s recent random test published in...
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Please Avoid Driving Drowsy

July 22, 2015 Hastings and Hastings
It is estimated that over a quarter million people jump behind the wheel fatigued, every single day. It has even been found in a recent poll conducted by the Division of Sleep Medicine at Harvard Medical School that 54% of all drivers have driven drowsy, while another 28% admit to dozing off behind the...
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Cymbalta Users Beware

July 21, 2015 Hastings and Hastings
In August of 2004, the FDA approved of the drug Cymbalta to treat depression. Cymbalta is a serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor (SNRI) which functions by managing certain brain chemical associated with mental stability. The drug was later found to treat other conditions such as: anxiety, muscle pain, urinary incontinence, stress, and even diabetic neuropathy. The...
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The Difference between British and American English

July 20, 2015 Hastings and Hastings
Learning another language can be a difficult, seemingly impossible endeavor a times. The subtle intricacies of languages can be tough to grasp: Chinese and the honorific case, pronouncing French, German articles, Russian case system, Latin declensions, and in English, prepositions. Indeed, the most common complaint from foreigners is the difficulty grasping our metaphorical, abstract...
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