Jamba Juice, the leading blender of fruit and other naturally healthy ingredients has announced that it has launched its new breakfast menu in all stores nationwide. An NBC poll estimated 40% of Americans skip breakfast. Jamba wants to inspire the nation to live a healthier life, starting with a nutritious breakfast everyday. In order to kick off the new breakfast menu Jamba Juice is giving away a free Jama Breakfast Tuesday April 8th, 2008 until 10am.

“We are on a breakfast mission,” said Senior Vice President, Marketing and Brand Development. “We’re encouraging America to make breakfast a priority, and feel the difference a healthy breakfast can make in their day.”

Based on the results of the breakfast test in Los Angeles and New York last fall, Jamba believes that consumer demand is strong for healthier breakfast options. Jamba’s unique breakfast menu offers nutritionally balanced yogurt blends, organic granola blends, all-natural baked goods, and freshly squeezed juices and juicies which will help put the GOOD in your morning. The new organic granola blends represent the first time Jamba has offered a 12 ounce cup size.

New Breakfast Menu

Granola Topper: A nutritious breakfast of blended fruit, low-fat yogurt and soymilk topped with crunchy organic granola! Jamba’s organic granola includes Omega-3s, whole grains, pumpkin and flax seeds. Mango Peach Topper and Berry Topper offer a healthy dose of fiber and protein. $3.60 - $4.80 for a 12 ounce; $4.00 - $5.20 for a 16 ounce.

Chunky Smoothie: Offering fresh bananas, strawberries, organic granola, and peanut butter, blended with soymilk and nonfat yogurt, Chunky Strawberry will jump start your day! $4.10 - $5.30 for a 12 ounce; $4.50 - $5.70 for a 16 ounce.

Yogurt & Fruit Blends: A healthy blend of berries, nonfat plain yogurt and soymilk in two flavors: Sunrise Strawberry and Bright Eyed & Blueberry. Our lowest calorie breakfast smoothies, these options are great for getting essential calcium and protein, and are blended with yogurt to promote digestive health. $2.85 - $ 4.15 for a 12 ounce; $3.25 - $4.55 for a 16 ounce.

Fresh Squeezed Juices and Juicies: You can’t go wrong as juice is at Jamba’s core! Orange Juice, Orange Mango Passion, and Orange Carrot Banana are excellent sources of Vitamin C and Carrot Juice is an excellent source of Vitamins A and B6. And you can boost your juice for free! $2.65 - $3.75 for a 12 ounce; $3.05 - $4.15 for a 16 ounce.

Baked Goods: Are a great complement to any Jamba Smoothie, Juice, or Juicie and are all natural and contain no trans fat. These new baked goods include, Reduced-Fat Blueberry Loaf, Reduced-Fat Cranberry-Orange Loaf, Zucchini-Walnut Loaf, Blueberry Oatcake, and Omega-3 Cookies. $1.00 - $1.95.

ABOUT JAMBA JUICE

Jamba, Inc. (NASDAQ:JMBA; NASDAQ:JMBAU; NASDAQ:JMBAW) is a holding company and through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Jamba Juice Company, owns and franchises JAMBA JUICE(R) stores. JAMBA JUICE(R) is the leading blender of fruit and other naturally healthy ingredients. Founded in 1990, Jamba strives to inspire and simplify healthy living for its customers and employees. As of the end of Fiscal Year 2007, JAMBA JUICE had 707 stores, of which 501 were company-owned and operated. For the nearest location or a complete menu including new All Fruit(TM) and Functional smoothies, please call: 1-866-4R-FRUIT or visit the JAMBA JUICE website at www.jamba.com. Look for Jamba’s healthy Ready-To-Drink Smoothies and Juicies in grocery stores in 2008.

Only hours after a “solidarity shutdown” in Pennsylvania the American Trucking Associations delivered a letter to President Bush urging him to release oil from the SPR (Strategic Petroleum Reserve). It is expected even more trucking shutdowns will follow as high diesel prices are pushing trucking companies and owner operators out of business. The first shutdown was carried out in Vandergrift, PA with about 35 trucks and 60 people in attendance and was covered by Landline Magazine. Before this shutdown discussions have been going on at places like the Social Truckstop debating a nationwide trucking shutdown to save the entire trucking industry.

With those discussions brewing and small shutdowns taking place the ATA President and CEO Bill Graves on Monday released a press release and delivered a letter that urged President Bush to release oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in an attempt to break the current run-up in crude oil prices before they further constrain the U.S. economy.

In a letter to President Bush, Graves cautioned that skyrocketing diesel prices will magnify the current economic slowdown and delay an economic recovery. Graves advocated for the Bush Administration to implement policies that will ensure a steady, affordable supply of oil for the nation’s 3.5 million truck drivers and all American consumers.

“We are very concerned that out-of-control energy prices will greatly magnify our current economic slowdown and delay our economic recovery,” Graves said. “If households have to spend their forthcoming tax rebate checks on energy, the stimulus will be significantly limited. The more consumers spend on fuel the less they have to spend on other goods or services.”

Rising fuel prices have been a significant burden on the trucking industry. The industry is on a pace to spend an unprecedented $135 billion on diesel fuel this year, $22 billion more than a year earlier.

The trucking industry is experiencing the highest prolonged fuel prices in history. Historically, fuel represented the second-highest operating expense for motor carriers. For many motor carriers, however, fuel is surpassing labor as their largest expense. This ultimately will increase the cost of everything delivered by truck.

More than 750,000 motor carriers in the United States transport nearly 70 percent of tonnage carried by all modes of domestic freight transportation.

To view a copy of the letter please go to: Letter from ATA CEO to President Bush Urging SPR Release.

The American Trucking Associations is the largest national trade association for the trucking industry. Through a federation of other trucking groups, industry-related conferences, and its 50 affiliated state trucking associations, ATA represents more than 37,000 members covering every type of motor carrier in the United States.

SOURCE: American Trucking Associations (ATA) and Social Truckstop

American Trucking Associations (ATA) Clayton Boyce, 703-838-7902

At only 23 years old, the founder of social networking website Facebook Mark Zuckerberg reign in as the youngest self-made billionaire in the world. Announced by Forbes magazines yearly billionaire list Mr. Zuckerberg shot up to #785 on the list. You can view his bio page at Forbes here.

Matthew Miller, Forbes Associate Editor announced that billionaire history had been made when he stated, “He is the youngest billionaire in the world right now and we also believe he is the youngest self-made billionaire in history.” Mark Zuckerberg is even hanging around the likes of Oprah Winfrey who has $1.5 billion network. Although Winfrey is ranking above Zuckerberg they are both stated to be worth $1.5 billion.

One question that has been raised was how Mark Zuckerberg’s net worth was calculated. Some argue that Mr. Zuckerberg is much richer than $1.5 billion when taking into account the $240 million dollar Microsoft invested in Facebook for a 1.6 percent stake in Facebook in 2007. With Microsoft’s investment it places Facebook at market valuation of $15 billion. Mark Zuckerberg holds a 30% stake in the company which would have placed him with $5 billion in net worth.

The Forbes magazine made a statement about how they came up with the valuation when they said, “Would it really fetch that much today? Some analysts — and a few Facebook investors — doubt it.” The Facebook valuation is said to be stated on the estimated annual sales of $150 million dollars. The annual sales were mainly in advertisement revenue deals with Microsoft.

Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook in February 2004 from his Harvard dorm room. After dropping out of school and moving to Silicon Valley Facebook found venture capitalists ready to made their stake in the fast growing social network. Now Mr. Zuckerberg can have his bragging rights, he is the youngest self-made billionaire in history.

The largest beef recall in U.S. history on February 17th is still producing shockwaves of recalls throughout the country in products that utilize beef in their products. The latest product to fall under the major beef recall is General Mills Progresso soup brand. General Mills is not recalling all types of the Progresso soup brand but specifically the Italian-Style Wedding Soup.

There have been no illnesses reported and this is a voluntary recall done by General Mills and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Recall Covers:

Progresso Italian Wedding Soup
18.5 oz cans and 15.25 oz microwaveable bowls

· 18.5 oz. cans of Progresso Italian Wedding Soup, “Best if Used By” dates from 12OCT9 to 08NOV9, UPC# 41196-91505, CODE: 22511, GROUP: 1286

· 15.25 oz. Microwave Bowl of Progresso Italian Wedding Soup, “Best if Used By” dates from 12OCT9 to 08NOV9, UPC#: 41196-40339, CODE: 11311, GROUP: 1286.

Total numbers on the number of items being recalled have not been released. The true situation is that beef has not been labeled as having any bacteria or mad cow scare, which is typical for beef recalls, the recall is due to Hallmark / Westland Meat Packing Company in Chino, California not being completely and properly inspected by the USDA.

“Families should check their cabinets for this widely-distributed, popular product, and return unopened cans to the store for a full refund,” Consumer Protection Commissioner Jerry Farrell, Jr. said. “Anyone who has open cans or ‘bowls’ subject to the recall should throw the containers and food away.”

For more information, please call General Mills at 1-800-200-9377, the FDA at 1-888-SAFEFOOD or the Department of Consumer Protection at (860) 713-6160.

While it is easily debatable whether the Emergency Drill Down meeting was a true Digg Revolt, we still wanted to provide you a transcript. Since most people know this even as the “Digg Revolt 3″, this should help others find it. This really ended up being a pre-revolt that was Digg’s users calling out for input from Digg staff.

We have provided a static version of the transcript to ensure that as many people can access it at once as possible. No matter the tweaking done to Wordpress it still loves to crash unless you have clustered servers or have it running completely static in itself which is worthless.

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Another blow to file sharing was made public on January 19th, 2008. As user’s cries and pleas rang out through forums and blogs on the Internet, news continues to leak about the shutdown of Rapidshare.com. Currently as this is released Radidshare.de is still functional, however, all Rapidshare Premium account holders have stated they cannot download.

Wikipedia has had over 20 different versions of the account with some of the first statements from RapidShare themselves. At first it was announced that over 360 Rapidshare servers collapsed due to overload and that the servers would be up within hours. As the clock ticked by users have become more irate and confused. There is now information hitting the press wire that German anti-piracy officials are involved.

An organization called, GEMA, which is a society for musical performing and mechanical reproduction rights has obtained from the District Court in Cologne temporary injunctions against the operator of the data exchange services www.rapidshare.de and www.rapidshare.com. The dot com version of Rapidshare was specifically targeted as GEMA members claimed their copyright protected works had been used in an unlawful way.

RapidShare services are well known throughout the Internet for file sharing. In fact, according to Alexa traffic metric’s service Rapidshare.com is ranked as the #11 website in the world. According to another competing and generally more reliable traffic analytics service, Compete.com, Rapidshare.com holds a ranking worldwide of 879. You can see screenshots from these ranking services below:

The RapidShare service allows users, both free and premium, to upload files onto their servers making the files publicly available and searchable through different search engines. A detailed press report from Heise Online states that the GEMA spokesman Hans-Gerwig Geyer believes that both Rapidshare sites should be taken down and not allowed to operate in their present way.

Very broad statements have been made by Harald Heker, the chairman of the executive board of of GEMA saying that this injunction and process could have sweeping effects for other sites like YouTube and MySpace. Mr. Heker sums it all up by saying, “the mere circumstance of shifting acts of use to users and the purported inability of the operator to control content do not relieve the operator of a service from the copyright liability he/she/it possesses for the content made available for download from the operator’s website(s).”

With statements being made about the Web 2.0 sites like YouTube and MySpace user’s have also been brought into question. It has also been stated by sources that GEMA officials and other related anti-piracy officials are looking into pursuing legal action against users who distribute and download pirated copies of software and movies from these servers.

It’s official Jenna Bush has set the date to marry her fiance Henry Hager on May 10th, 2008. The wedding will be held in a private ceremony. Laura Bush did bring up the fact that she thought a White House wedding would have been more fun. Jenna has clearly stated she wants a small and private wedding. The private ceremonies location has been leaked by sources to be the Crawford, Texas ranch with plenty of room for a lavish wedding at 1,600 acres. The reasons for a private wedding are obvious, escaping the D.C. paparazzi and the White House press.

Mr. Hager actually talked with the other Bush twin, Barbara, revealing his feelings and telling her he wanted to marry Jenna. After getting approval from Barbara, Mr. Hager made his move in asking for Jenna Bush’s hand in marriage from George and Laura Bush at Camp David.

Three years separate the two lovebirds with Jenna Bush being currently 26 years old and Henry Hager being 29 years old. The love triangle is said to be formed after Mr. Hager served as a White House aid under Karl Rove, helping his soon-to-be father-in-law win reelection in 2004. It wasn’t long after election night in 2004 that Henry has stated he fell in love with Jenna. At the time, Jenna was still a bit of a party girl being caught with various other companions. Jenna has since settled down becoming a teacher and even writing a book. Jenna’s book titled, Ana’s Story: A Journey of Hope, tells the story of single mother in Africa. The mother in the story is 17 years old and has HIV. So with all the good causes and a settled down life, Jenna Bush has now set the date to become the first in line to the President to marry.

It’s official the NOAA, or more specifically the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration rings in a new 11-year cycle of heightened solar activity. The new solar cycle is dubbed as Solar Cycle 24. The major climax of this new cycle is predicted to be in 2011 or 2012. Once the solar cycle reaches it’s maximum level you can expect it to bring greater risk of havoc on things like GPS signals, power grids, cell phones, civilian and airline communications, military communications and a whole lot more.

As stated from solar physicist Douglas Biesecker of NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center, “This sunspot is like the first robin of spring.” This robin has started to hatch early since a major group of solar experts predicted the cycle would most likely begin in March of 2008. The catch to the prediction was that it could occur 6 months before or after the March of 2008 date.

Even though the new spot, named #10,981 has appeared and marks the first sunspot of the new solar cycle NOAA warns it will not officially announce Solar Cycle 24 just yet. NOAA would prefer to see more Solar Cycle 24 spots and disruptions on the sun to officially announce that Solar Cycle 24 is dominant and in control of the sun cycle. It has been stated by officials at NOAA that due to the early appearance of these spots it shows that this could be a very strong solar season with bigger storms and more sunspots than previously monitored sun cycles.

Disruptions due to an increase in the solar cycles geomagnetic storms like Solar Cycle 24 can be serious. In fact, in 1989 an entire power grid that powers Canada’s Quebec province was knocked out by a major solar storm. This happened during what is called the Solar Maximum. If you are interested in this phenomenon which will become most active in 2011 or 2012 check out the documentary called Solarmax.

It is only during strong periods of geomagnetic storms that many things on Earth can be damaged. Normally the earth’s magnetic field protects earth from all of the random emissions put out by the sun during increased activity.

To get more information about the Solar Cycle 24 check out the NOAA’s in depth explanation of the coming solar cycle change here. You’ll find more pictures, video and a detailed analysis of what to expect.

If you’ve never heard of it before, get ready to find a new world series to become obsessed or entertained with. Once a tournament makes it’s move to Las Vegas and offers a $50,000 winning prize, you can almost bet you’ll someday find it on some obscure HD channel, enter Beer Pong.

Beer Pong is a game that is fairly easy to understand. A simple explanation directly from the World Series of Beer Pong rulebook can be found below:

RULES and DIRECTIONS:

Beer pong itself is simple. Two teams stand at opposite ends of an 8-foot long table, where ten 16-ounce cups, filled with roughly 2 ounces of beer or another liquid, are placed in a bowling-pin formation. Each team takes turns tossing ping-pong balls at their opponent’s cup formation. If a ball goes into a cup, the cup is removed from the game. The first team to eliminate all of its opponent’s cups wins. At the WSOBP four of the ten cups in the formation are filled with water.

The WSOBP is the largest organized beer pong tournament in the nation, created by BPONG.COM. The WSOBP III is hosted by BPONG.COM in association with Tight Rack, and sponsored by Pabst Blue Ribbon. BPONG.COM is the premier source of beer pong and Beirut information on the Internet, providing a center for collaboration and discussion about the game of beer pong. Tight Rack is a Las Vegas beer pong-themed bar.

While the $50,000 grand prize today may sound like this event has been kicking along for a long while, Beer Pong is in it’s infancy. This year is the 3rd year of the tournament which had humble beginnings in Mesquite, Nevada with $10,000 grand prize 2 years ago.

It is estimated there are over 600 national and international competitors, mainly college students, competing this year in Las Vegas in the World Series of Beer Pong III. If you’re hanging out in Las Vegas and want to catch a glimpse of this tournament you can hop on down to the South Point Hotel, Casino and Spa.

If you have been thinking an event like this couldn’t possibly grow, attendance is expected bring in even more international interest from Canada and cover almost all states in the US. Participation is projected to be 100 more than last year!

Big time mentions of this new sport and the event have been mentioned in publications such as The New York Times, Rolling Stone, The Wall Street Journal, Stuff Magazine, and Playboy.com. If you’re interested in participating next year or catching video, pictures and the excitement from this years tournament head on over to www.bpong.com.