Chile has been awarded the Guinness World Record for the largest swimming pool on the planet. This gigantic lagoon is located in the resort of San Alfonso del Mar in Algarrobo city, on the southern coast of Chile. The Guiness Book of World Records has named it the largest pool in the world. How big [...]
Lehman falls, Merrill sold, AIG nationalised. What next? Remember reading one such headline on a September morning in 2008? And the collapse did not stop there. From the United States to Iceland to Kazakhstan, banks and insurance companies were either acquired or merged or went belly-up thanks to a fatal combination of pure greed, bizarre [...]
Do you think sometimes you work in the wrong place? A slide allows quick access from different floors …. There are also poles available … they are similar to the ones used in fire stations Employees can eat all they want from a vast choice of food and drink. Each employee has at least two [...]
Kingfishers are small bright colored birds of the three families Alcedinidae (river kingfishers), Halcyonidae (tree kingfishers), and Cerylidae (water kingfishers). There are roughly 90 species of kingfisher. All have large heads, long, sharp, pointed bills, short legs, and stubby tails. They are found throughout the world. Kingfishers live in both woodland and wetland habitats. Kingfishers [...]
The word Tikka means bits, piecces or chunks. Chicken Tikka is an easy-to-cook dish in which chicken chunks are marinated in special spices and then grilled on skewers. This is one of India’s most popular dishes. Chicken Tikka can also be made into Chicken Tikka Masala, a tasty gravy dish. Ingredients: 1 cup fresh yoghurt [...]
In these extraordinary times, card issuers’ plan to erase up to 40% of some customers’ debt would also be good for those who pay their bills on time. By David Lazarus When I heard last week that banks want to forgive up to 40% of some customers’ credit card debt, my first question was, “What’s [...]
By Chris Thompson – The Big Money That’s what CEO Eric Schmidt told the Financial Times yesterday. In an extensive Q&A with the newspaper, Schmidt reveals that Google (GOOG) seriously considered either buying a newspaper as a for-profit enterprise or hiring a pack of smart lawyers to reconfigure the paper as a nonprofit venture. He [...]
