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Target reportedly sacked seven employees who bought a special Stanley Quencher cup. Business Insider reported the fired Target employees said they purchased a Starbucks X Stanley Cup that the companies launched to much fanfare earlier this month and received their dismissals not long afterwards. The limited edition cups, which have a $49.95 price tag, debuted Jan. 3. According to the former employees, higher ups at their Target locations pointed to a rule about workers not being allowed to capitalize on their position as Target employees to "gain an unfair advantage over guests" to get products as factoring into the firings,...

At a campaign event in Springfield, Illinois, Donald Trump suggested a boycott of coffee giant Starbucks over the design of its Christmas coffee cups. The all-red design has angered religious conservatives who see it as part of an effort to undermine the meaning of Christmas. "Starbucks is taking merry Christmas off [their cups] no more merry Christmas," Trump said. "If I become president, we'll all be saying merry Christmas again," the candidate said to applause. Trump told a raucous crowd, "Maybe we should boycott Starbucks. I don't know." The real estate mogul also attacked his main rival, Ben Carson. "This...

Starbucks started its holiday cup tradition in 1997--so “this year's design is another way Starbucks is inviting customers to create their own stories with a red cup that mimics a blank canvas.” It’s also worth noting previous Starbucks red cups lacked any outright Christian symbolism. Jeffrey Fields, Starbucks vice president of design and content, said in the release that in the past the holiday cups have told stories. This year, Starbucks “wanted to usher in the holidays with a purity of design that welcomes all of our stories," Fields wrote. He said that the coffee chain “has become a place...

(IsraelNN.com) Hamas actors, several days before the Passover holiday, performed in Gaza its version of an old blood libel against Jews, who previously have been accused of using Christian blood to drink and to make matzo, the unleavened bread eaten on the Passover holiday.

Swedish scientists have created a storm in a D-cup with new research that shows too much coffee reduces the size of women's breasts. Cancer researchers discovered that around half of all women possess a gene shown to link breast size to coffee intake. "Drinking coffee can have a major effect on breast size," said Helena Jernstroem, a lecturer in experimental oncology at Lund University. Scientists quizzed nearly 300 women about their bust measurements and how many cups of coffee they down in an average day. The researchers said there was a clear link between drinking coffee and smaller breasts. But...

Apple Inc. isn't just a user of the CUPS, or Common UNIX Printing System, now the company is the owner, too. Michael Sweet, creator of CUPS, revealed on Wednesday that Apple purchased the printing system source code and brought him onboard as an employee in February 2007. Apple uses CUPS for part of the printing system in Mac OS X, and with the purchase of the source code, that isn't likely to change. CUPS was developed by Mr. Sweet under the GPL2/LGPL2 license, commonly used for free and open source software. He claims that Apple will continue to offer CUPS...

Excerpt - Big UNIX news this morning. Apple has bought out CUPS, the common UNIX printing system. The name may not sound familiar, but it's part of every Mac OS X installation. CUPS implements a cross-platform printing system based on the Internet Printing Protocol and is, according to its web page, the defacto standard printing system for Linux. Until now, CUPS has been distributed by Easy Software Products under the GNU general public license. Although the purchase was announced today, it seems the actual deal went down this past February. In addition to acquiring the CUPS source code ownership, Apple...

Police said Rusty Wayne Sills has quite a collection -- of women's underwear. Sills is charged with stealing women's undies and shoes -- and it allegedly isn't been the first time. Police said he would steal bras, panties and socks from the laundry room at an apartment complex in the Des Moines, Iowa, area. Officers said they found hundreds of ladies' unmentionables, and shoes, too, when they searched Sills' home. According to officers, Sills was caught on a security camera videotape stealing from the laundry room. He's now charged with fifth-degree theft.At the Sun Prairie Apartments in West Des Moines,...

Hundreds of bras stolen from Victoria's Secret MANCHESTER — An undercover investigation is undoubtedly needed to find out who stole hundreds of Victoria Secret Very Sexy brassieres from a Mall of New Hampshire store. Victoria Secret manager Kelly Duvall called police Thursday at 4 p.m. to report that up to 200 of the push-up, but not padded, bras in various sizes and colors were missing. The bras were stolen from the storage area of a display case. Each is priced as between $40 and $45. Police said the total value of the stolen bras could exceed $20,000. Anthony Hebron, spokesman...

A Brazilian woman, shot in the crossfire between police and drug dealers was saved by silicone breast implants.Doctors said the silicone had slowed the bullet up enough to prevent it from causing her serious injury.Jane Selma Soares was caught up in shooting between police officers and drug traffickers in Rio de Janeiro.She told Las Ulitmas Noticias newspaer, even though she tried to hide the bullet hit her in the chaest.