Does Vince McMahon really own the WWE?

Vince McMahon is World Wrestling Entertainment's majority owner, chairman and CEO. Together with his wife Linda, children Shane and Stephanie, and son-in-law Paul Levesque (who wrestles under the name Triple H), the McMahon family holds approximately 70% of WWE's equity and 96% of the voting power.

Who's the shy girl in Conan's 1864 baseball skit?

The name of the shy girl in Conan's vintage baseball sketch is Nell Del Giudice. It's also known as the old-timey baseball and the old-fashioned baseball skit. Conan once named the clip as his all-time favorite as he wrapped up his run at Late Night.

Is Vector Marketing a scam?

Sort of.

Vector Marketing is the sales branch of Cutco, a cutlery manufacturer. Potential employees are recruited via ads and fliers on the internet and college campuses, but job descriptions are generally either deceptive or very vague. The actual job being offered is that of an sales representative who sells Cutco products (generally kitchen knives) to customers, which the employee would need to find on his/her own. Vector Marketing employees are considered independent contractors, and are not paid for training and other mandatory meetings nor reimbursed for common business expenses such as transportation. Previously, employees were also required to purchase the knives themselves in order to use them for demonstrations for potential customers, though this practice has been discontinued.

Vector Marketing employees are not given a salary and are instead paid by commission, starting at a lowly 10%, which can scale up to 30% if enough sales are made. Because employees are expected to find their own customers, it's possible to not earn any money. Losing money is also a possible scenario, since travel costs are not covered, and this was especially the case in the past when employees were required to purchase a set of knives for demos.

Vector Marketing has been sued numerous times for their deceptive business practices. They were sued in 1990 by the Arizona Attorney General, and were ordered to stop providing dishonest information to recruits. A similar order was also handed to them by the state of Wisconsin in 1994. In 2003, a recruit successfully sued them for failing to adhere to labor laws, and later formed Students Against Vector Exploitation (SAVE) to warn other college students about the company. Most recently, they settled a class action lawsuit for $13 million in 2008.

This Week in Baseball theme song

This Week in Baseball (abbreviated as TWiB) had two theme songs. The opening theme was "Jet Set", which was also used as the theme song for the original version of the game show Jackpot. When Fox brought TWiB back to television in 2000, a slightly different version of Jet Set was used as the opening theme. The closing theme, and the one fans most associated with the program, was "Gathering Crowds". Both themes were composed by Mike Vickers, a former member of the original Manfred Mann band, though he's credited under the pseudonym Patrick J. O'Hara Scott for Gathering Crowds.

Wrecking Ball ATL 2016 lineup

Quicksand
L7
Thursday
Drive Like Jehu
Dinosaur Jr
American Football
The Julie Ruin
Motion City Soundtrack
Gorilla Biscuits
The Bouncing Souls
The Promise Ring
American Nightmare
Piebald
Touche Amore
Bayside
Deafheaven
Civ
Rainer Maria
Anti-Flag
Trapped Under Ice
Tigers Jaw
Cold Cave
Hey Mercedes
Juliette and the Licks
Burn
Bully
Good Riddance
Joyce Manor
Ceremony
Turnstile
The Menzingers
Maritime
Diarrhea Planet
Mothers
Milemarker
Jeff Rosenstock
Potty Mouth
Lemuria
Antarctigo Vespucci
PEARS
Microwave
Big Jesus
Solids
Daddy Issues
Young and Heartless
Free
Donovan Wolfington
Broken Beak
Drug Church
Femignome
Bobby Barnett
Looming
The Obsessives
Warehouse
Spur
Auspice
Fox Wound
Exwhy

How much caffeine is in Honest Tea?

The amount of caffeine found in a 16.9 oz bottle of Honest Tea, by flavor:

Cranberry Lemon Flavored Herbal Tea - 0mg
Half Tea and Half Lemonade - 46mg
Honey Green Tea - 94mg
Lemon Tea - 90mg
Orange Mango Flavored Herbal Tea - 0mg
Peach Tea - 67mg
Pomegranate Blue Flavored Herbal Tea - 0mg
Raspberry Tea - 67mg
Unsweet Lemon Tea - 87mg

The three herbal teas naturally contain no caffeine, while the Honey Green flavor contains the most at 94mg, about half of what's found in brewed coffee.

Who plays Selina Kyle on Gotham?

The young Selina Kyle featured on Gotham, who will become the future Catwoman, is played by Camren Bicondova. Previous to her role on Gotham, Bicondova had limited acting experience, but had appeared in music videos, television shows and feature films as a dancer. She is also a member of the all-girl dance group 8 Flavahz, and competed in America's Best Dance Crew with them.

What happened to The Spirit Squad?

According to Wikipedia, "The Spirit Squad was a professional wrestling stable that consisted of Kenny, Johnny, Mitch, Nicky, and Mikey. They are best known for their time in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW). The team's ring personas were those of an all-male cheerleading squad." The five-man tag team debuted on WWE RAW on January 23, 2006 and disbanded on November 27 that same year.

After the breakup, Kenny (real name Kenneth George Doane) initially received the biggest push of the five, and was re-named Kenny Dykstra as a homage to the former baseball player Lenny Dykstra. Kenny was released from his WWE contract on November 10, 2008. During his solo run in WWE, he was noted for having an on-screen relationship with Victoria. Kenny wrestled on the independent circuit after his release, appearing in Dragon Gate USA, Wrestling Retribution Project and Chikara. During Chikara's 2014 King of Trios tournament, he once again wrestled under his Spirit Squad character alongside Johnny and Mikey.

Johnny (real name Johnny Jeter) was repackaged as Jayden Jeter and wrestled in dark matches and live events, as well as in WWE's developmental territory, Ohio Valley Wrestling. He was released from his contract in late 2007, and retired from professional wrestling in 2008 to become an accountant. In 2014, Johnny, along with Kenny and Mikey, wrestled as the Spirit Squad in Chikara's King of Trios tournament.

Mitch (real name Nick Mitchell) was released from his contract on May 15, 2007, and began training for a career in mixed martial arts. He made his MMA debut on April 9, 2010, losing to Derek Lewis via technical knockout from punched in the second round.

Nicky (real name Nick Nemeth) was the most successful of the five members post-breakup. After returning to WWE's developmental territory OVW and later Florida Championship Wrestling, he re-debuted on RAW on September 15, 2008 as Dolph Ziggler. Ziggler, still wrestling in the WWE, has twice been the World Heavyweight Champion, won the Intercontinental Championship four times and also once held the United States Championship.

Mikey (real name Mike Brendli) returned to OVW as Mikey Mondo before being released from the WWE on June 13, 2008. He then spent some time wrestling for several small independent promotions before resigning with OVW. Mondo has also wrestled for Ring of Honor, and appeared in Chikara's 2014 King of Trios tournament as his Spirit Squad character with Kenny and Johnny.

Jenna Thiam ethnicity

Actress Jenna Thiam's ethnicity is mixed - her mother is half Belgian and half Armenian and her father is half Senegalese, a quarter French and a quarter English.

Is Quick Cure shrimp-safe?

Quick Cure is a aquarium medication that can be used treat common aquarium parasites, including ick, protozoans, flukes, costia, chilodonella and trichodina. While it is safe for most freshwater and saltwater fish, it should not be used with invertebrates such as snails and shrimp because it's formulated from formalin and malachite green. Quick Cure can also discolor silicone in glass aquariums.

Best Buy's private label brands

Dynex
Electronic and computer equipment such as televisions, Blu-ray players and storage media. Considered the company's lower-end private brand.

Geek Squad
Best Buy's computer repair service. Flash drives are also sold under this name.

Init
Storage products and furniture for home theaters. Seems to have gone mostly by the wayside; only two Init products (a table fan and a TV stand) currently show up on Best Buy's website.

Insignia
Electronic equipment such as televisions, tablets and home theater systems. Considered the store's higher-end brand when compared to Dynex.

Modal
Headphones and accessories for cell phones, tablets and tablets. It has a focus on more "hip" designs.

Platinum
Accessories for cell phones, laptops, tablets and digital cameras. Considered Best Buy's high-end accessory brand.

RocketFish
Primarily focused on cables for home theater systems, but also makes gaming and mobile phone accessories.

Who created Google?

Google was created in January 1996 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who were PhD students at Stanford University at the time. Unlike conventional search engines during that time which ranked results by counting how many times the search terms appeared on the page, Brin and Page set out to create a new system that would rank pages based on the quality and quantity of backlinks it had. Their search engine was initially named "BackRub", in reference to this system. It was eventually changed to Google, a misspelling of googol, which is the number one followed by a hundred zeroes. The new name was in reference to their intention of providing large quantities of information. Google also initially ran on Stanford's servers (google.stanford.edu and z.stanford.edu) before the domain Google.com was registered on September 15, 1997.

What happened to the MLB Fan Cave?

The MLB Fan Cave was a building (formerly a Tower Records store) that served as a "social media hub" for MLB from 2011 to 2014. It was also a show that took place inside the building where a select group of fans would attempt to watch all 2,430 regular season games and play host to concerts, fan events, and celebrity guests while recording their experience via social media, blogs, and videos.

The Fan Cave varied a bit between its four seasons. In its debut season in 2011, it feature only two "cave dwellers", following their experiences in the Fan Cave. In 2012, it turned similar to a reality show competition, with 9 cave dwellers attempting to avoid elimination. While the cave dwellers competed in challenges and there was an online voting aspect, the actual scoring rules weren't apparent to viewers. The competition was eventually won by San Francisco Giants fan Ashley Chavez. The Fan Cave continued a similar model in 2013, but the next year it became a 30-minute variety show on MTV called "Off the Bat from the MLB Fan Cave" and featured Sway, Fat Joe, Chris Distefano and Melanie Iglesias as hosts.

After a four-year run, MLB announced the end of the Fan Cave in February 2015. This decision was explained by MLB's president of business and media Bob Bowman as a move to consolidate all of their social media activities. In a statement given to SportsBusiness Journal, Bowman explained "We’re trying to be more coordinated in all of our social media efforts. This change in structure is helping all of us focus on the same goals, and by putting all of the social media together, we hope to have a more consistent and effective message." It's also noted that Bowman was newly assigned to his position at the time of the decision, and it was his predecessor Tim Brosnan who left the company a month earlier that created the MLB Fan Cave.

Here were all the cast and contestants that took part of the MLB Fan Cave during its run:

2011
Mike O'Hara
Ryan Wagner

2012
Ashley Chavez
Benjamin Christensen
Lindsay Guentzel
Shaun Kippins
Gordon Mack
Ricardo Marquez
Rick Mast
Eddie Mata
Kyle Thompson

2013
Daniel Farris
Marcus Hall
Alex Justice
Nick Mendillo
Travis Miller
Mina Park
Aaron Roberts
April Whitzman
Ben Wietmarschen

2014
Benjamin Barker
Michael Bolling
Daniel Frankel
Stanten Jones
Keith McPherson
Cesar Pichardo
Serena Sanchez
Angela Lauren Yanez

Who is The Most Interesting Man in the World?

The Most Interesting Man in the World, a popular character from Dos Equis advertising and commercials, is played by actor Jonathan Goldsmith. Goldsmith has stated the character was inspired by his friend, the late actor Fernando Lamas. The commercials' narration are done by voice-over artist Will Lyman, best known for his work on the long-running PBS series Frontline. The Most Interesting Man in the World campaign started in 2006, and in March 2016, Dos Equis announced they will be retiring the character.

Who is the Miller High Life guy?

The Miller High Life delivery guy, a popular character that appeared in commercials for the beer brand, was played by the late Windell Middlebrooks. Middlebrooks had many roles over his acting career but is perhaps best known for playing security guard Kirby Morris on The Suite Life on Deck. Middlebrooks died suddenly on March 9, 2015 at the age of 36 from a blood clot.

Does 5-hour Energy really work?

5-hour Energy claims to contain 200mg of caffeine, which means for a boost of energy, it should work at least as well as a cup of coffee, which contains slightly less caffeine. There's little research that suggests the energy shot's other ingredients, which include niacin, vitamin B6, folic acid, vitamin b12, would provide a noticeable energy boost. 5-hour Energy's claims have also been the target of lawsuits from consumers, as well as attorney general offices from multiple states for deceptive advertising.

5-hour Energy has also been linked with serious health hazards, including at least 13 deaths. According to the report, 5-hour Energy " has been mentioned in some 90 filings with the F.D.A., including more than 30 that involved serious or life-threatening injuries like heart attacks, convulsions and, in one case, a spontaneous abortion" between 2009 and 2012. Additionally, "the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, reported late last year that more than 13,000 emergency room visits in 2009 were associated with energy drinks alone."

Which movie had the worst opening weekend?

The movie with a wide release (600+ theaters) that had the worst opening weekend was Proud American, which managed only $96,076. The movie, released by Slowhand Cinema on September 12, 2008, advertised itself as a film capturing the greatness of the American spirit, but was slammed by critics as a "corporate-sponsored, feature-length infomercial" and a "thinly disguised advertisement for corporate deregulation." The movie featured the founding of Wal-Mart and Coca-Cola, and was sponsored by MasterCard and American Airlines, who received product placement throughout the film. Proud American finished with a total gross of $131,357.

For wide releases of 2000+ theaters, the worst opening belonged to The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure. Despite a budget of $20 million, and another $40 spent on marketing, Oogieloves managed only $443,901 on its opening weekend (August 29, 2012) and a total gross of $1,065,907, making it a huge box office bomb.

What happened to MetConnect?

MetConnect was a free dial-up ISP located in New York City that operated during the 2000s. The service was run by MetTel, a telecom company. According to their website, "MetTel has been the preferred provider of communications services to nationwide, multi-location enterprises since 1996. Through extensive partnerships and wholesale relationships with the nation’s leading carriers, we offer businesses a simple, consolidated alternative to often complex, multi-vendor telecom set-ups. Our portfolio ranges from traditional voice services to MPLS networks, from Voice over IP technologies to cloud managed services and professional consulting services. All through a single point of contact for services, billing, repairs, and provisioning."

MetConnect was discontinued by MetTel in early 2012. By then, dial-up has already long been considered outdated technology, though it managed an impressive run as a free service.

What is a receiving associate?

A receiving associate is a job position where the worker generally works in the backroom, performing tasks such as unloading merchandise, moving items from the backroom to the sales floor and making sure the store is stocked properly. Receiving associate is a physical job, and being able to constantly lift and move boxes of a certain weight is usually mentioned in the job description. As it's not a position that requires much skill or formal education, receiving associates are low-paying jobs, but can be a good choice for people looking to break into the workforce who don't have much to offer. Clothing and department stores like Sears and Bloomingdale's are generally the type of businesses that hire receiving associates.