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Shark Week Returns

Summer vacation is drawing to a close, and the start of a new school year is just around the corner. Hopefully you have been able to take a nice, relaxing trip to the beach … and survive. The time has come again for the annual terrifying, yet thrilling, Shark Week on the Discovery Channel. The ‘fear returns’ on August 2nd, 2009 with an action packed week filled with informative shark facts, attack stories, myths, shark tracking strategies, and much much more.

Conveniently enough, our family vacations usually fell around the first week in August, the general time for Shark Week to be aired on the Discovery Channel. Nothing says relaxation like curling up with a blanket and popcorn watching shark attack stories, only to fearfully head out on a boogie board the next morning. You know you have seen enough Shark Week when a plastic bottle floating atop the water sends you running out of the ocean shrieking with fear, convinced that the fin of a Great White Shark was lurking in your direction… Especially when Continue Reading »

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Attention all Sweet Tea Lovers …McAlister’s Deli has heard your demand!

July 23, 2009 has been dubbed FREE TEA DAY. On this day, participating McAlister’s Deli locations (participation may vary) will be giving away free tea. Obviously there is a ‘one per guest limit,’ and the offer is not valid for catering orders or gallon purchases… but who wouldn’t love a refreshing sweet tea to cool down during these hot summer days? Besides, everything tastes better when it’s free!

Check out the official Tea Freaks website for more information surrounding this event. Here you will find weekly “Free Tea” episodes, and Tea Freak merchandise, such as tshirts, being sold on the site.

So find a participating McAlister’s Deli near you and enjoy some FREE TEA!

As a native of Chicago, I was astounded to hear rumors about the potential renaming of The Sears Tower. The famous Illinois skyscraper reigned as the tallest building in the world for quite some time, and still remains among the top ten loftiest structures. Appropriately named, The Sears Tower was designed as the headquarters for Sears, Roebuck & Company (the largest retailer in the world in the late 60’s) whose employees were previously scattered throughout Chicagoland.

If you’ve shopped at Sears lately, or heard of Wal-mart, you probably know that Sears, Roebuck & Company no longer stakes claim to the ‘largest retailer in the world’ title. Sears sold the tower in the early 90’s and eventually gave up the naming rights.

The Sears Tower will now be known as The Willis Tower, a tribute to the building’s current largest tenant. Willis Group Holdings is an insurance brokerage based out of England.

We often hear of stadiums changing names, but this is a national landmark. How long will it be before people start to use the new name in place of the old? Probably a long time.

The Willis Tower website website includes future plans for several on-site green initiatives like wind turbines, solar energy and conservation. Funny, it doesn’t mention all the trees that will be eradicated to reprint all those history books and encyclopedias.