A job resignation is seen as formal and professional.  Rarely are they ill-mannered as many of us don’t want to burn bridges.  A well-written letter to your manager about your leave should be short and sweet. Well, it looks like Neil Berrett literally did just that with his resignation letter.  He baked his employer a resignation cake.
The cake states the following:

“Dear Mr. Bowers – During the past three years, my tenure at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard has been nothing short of pure excitement, joy and whim.
“However, I have decided …

By Lisa Spinelli, News9.com
OKLAHOMA CITY — Jacob Andrew Laws, 28, was arrested Monday afternoon for attacking his wife because he was unhappy with breakfast, according to an Oklahoma City police report.
Displeased with his pancakes, Laws began to verbally and physically attack his wife Jessica, according to the police report. Laws took his flapjack distaste to an extreme level when he allegedly grabbed his wife by the neck and threw her to the floor. She got up, but Laws then threw her on their bed and began hitting her, read …

Cooks make sure Canadian soldiers receive fine cuisine
Ethan Baron
Canwest News Service
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
One of the globe’s worst warzones is an unlikely place to find top-notch cuisine.
But at Canada’s forward-operating base in the blood-soaked Zhari district of Afghanistan, army cooks are serving up meals that would satisfy even the pickiest palate.
It is steak-and-seafood night at the Zhari base. Rage Against the Machine’s Killing in the Name is blasting from a boom box inside the serving tent, as soldiers line up outside. From the patio’s dual barbecues, smoke carries the aroma …

J. Paulette Potts was munching on a bag of M&M’s until she had trouble with the center of a blue peanut one.  She washed off the chocolate coating and didn’t find a peanut in the center, but a bone from a small mammal.
She took the bone to Professor Larry Blumer, director of environmental studies in the biology department of Morehouse College in Atlanta, for an examination.
“It’s definitely bone, and it came from some type of mammal,” Blumer told FOXNews.com. “This isn’t [a] tail vertebra — it’s something higher up, …

RedOrbit.com
Here’s another reason to eat your broccoli: UCLA researchers report that a naturally occurring compound found in broccoli and other cruciferous vegetables may help protect against respiratory inflammation that causes conditions like asthma, allergic rhinitis and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Published in the March edition of the journal Clinical Immunology, the research shows that sulforaphane, a chemical in broccoli, triggers an increase of antioxidant enzymes in the human airway that offers protection against the onslaught of free radicals that we breathe in every day in polluted air, pollen, diesel exhaust …

By STUART ELLIOTT
Published: February 22, 2009
New York Times – IT took 24 years, but PepsiCo now has its own version of New Coke.
The PepsiCo Americas Beverages division of PepsiCo is bowing to public demand and scrapping the changes made to a flagship product, Tropicana Pure Premium orange juice. Redesigned packaging that was introduced in early January is being discontinued, executives plan to announce on Monday, and the previous version will be brought back in the next month.
Also returning will be the longtime Tropicana brand symbol, an orange from which …

Snapple beverages are going through a bit of surgery.  Those recognizable labels that we have grown to love are hitting the road, giving way to a hipper, more modern look.  Externally, the bottles will be changing shape to better fit cup holders and the labels will be revamped with new fonts and color schemes.
Perhaps the most significant change is in the formula.  The company will be replacing the high fructose corn syrup with sugar.  I’m not sure of what the reason for the change is.  Maybe it’s due to the …

Fri Feb 20, 2009 9:22am EST
LONDON (Reuters) – Children with severe peanut allergies given small daily doses of peanut flour were able to build tolerance to the nuts, according to a study that suggests it is possible to treat the potentially deadly condition.
The small trial, the first successful program of its kind, aimed to slowly build immunity to peanuts in people with the common allergy, the team at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge said on Friday.
“For all our participants, a reaction could lead to life-threatening anaphylactic shock, but now we’ve got …

By Leslie Gevirtz
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) Italian vintner Stefania Pepe is a supporter of biodynamic agriculture and even massages her grapes before turning them into wine.
She believes gentle massage gives the grapes a good feeling and also ensures that only ripe grapes are used in the wine.
“Maybe it’s because I’m a woman, but I believe you have to make wine special. You have to imbue it with love and energy. I give my grapes my love and my energy,” she said during Italy’s Vin2009 expo.
“It’s not all analysis. It’s …

LONDON (Reuters Life!) – Scientists say they may have found out why the great British chip smells so irresistible: a complex blend of scents that includes butterscotch, cocoa, cheese and flowers.
The aroma has been unpicked by food scientists at Leeds University.
“Whether oven-cooked or fried, the humble chip doesn’t smell of just chips — the aroma is much more complex and probably explains why chips are everyone’s favorite,” said Dr. Graham Clayton, who led the research for Britain’s National Chip Week which started on Monday.
“Aromas including butterscotch, cocoa, onion, cheese …