In its final ranking of the most popular ski resorts for the 2011 calendar year, SkiReports.com ranks California’s Mammoth Mountain as the most popular ski resort in North America. With a total of 99,458 Facebook fans, Mammoth beat out the remaining top 5; California’s Heavenly Mountain, British Columbia’s Whistler Blackcomb, and Colorado resorts Vail and [...]
Roughly one-quarter of Americans say they would refuse a full body scan using new airport body scanners and 14.9 percent said new airport security measures have them concerned for their health, according to the Thomson Reuters-NPR Health Poll. Thomson Reuters and NPR conduct a monthly poll to gauge attitudes and opinions on a wide range [...]
Commissioned by GRAPHISOFT Founder and Chairman of the Board, Gabor Bojar, the statue is the first in the world honoring Steve Jobs, the late founder of Apple, who passed away on October 5. Crafted by Hungarian sculptor Erno Toth, the life-like bronze statue stands near the entrance of architectural software maker GRAPHISOFT’s Budapest headquarters. The [...]
Nearly 1 million subscribers have chosen the most popular eBooks of 2011! The leading eBook website, Free-eBooks.net, from Paradise Publishers Inc., has just released this year’s Top 10 Lists, classified by genre. Free-eBooks.net is a destination for readers looking for the next big thing or working to stretch their book budgets. And while the site [...]
The Deloitte Consumer Spending Index (Index) slid again in November 2011, weighed down primarily by the housing market. The Index tracks consumer cash flow as an indicator of future consumer spending. “A high number of foreclosed homes and mortgage defaults continue to deflate real home prices and further lower consumers’ net worth,” explained Carl Steidtmann, [...]
With the high winds, freezing rain, and snow that old man winter brings comes power outages, and with power outages comes a need for generators and generator maintenance. But which generator can meet the demands of your home or business? Do you need an automatic generator or a manual one? How much wattage? If you [...]
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment and Lightstorm Entertainment announce AVATAR availabe digitally with first-of-its-kind interactive features in the AVATAR iTunes Extras Special Edition beginning on Tuesday, December 20. AVATAR iTunes Extras Special Edition lets fans deconstruct some of the movie’s most memorable scenes to reveal how James Cameron applied special effects to create the breathtaking world [...]
One thing the infighting among Republicans may be doing is strengthening President Obama’s job approval ratings. While still low, this is the fourth month in a row that the positive numbers have inched upwards. This month just over one-third of Americans (36%) give the President positive ratings for the overall job he is doing and [...]
Birmingham City must beat Group H’s bottom side NK Maribor and hope SC Braga win at Club Brugge KV to make it to the UEFA Europa League round of 32. The Blues trail the top two in the section by three points but have an inferior head-to-head record in their games against Braga. However, they [...]
For the last several years the economy has been one of the hottest topics, and one everyone—including politicians, economists, retailers, business owners, employees and consumers—has been following closely. Much has been said about Americans’ cutting back, budgeting, and possibly, a “new normal”. The Harris Poll has been tracking Americans’ spending and savings plans for over [...]