BEAVERTON, Ore — They might be millionaire basketball players, but the chance to peruse a warehouse full of sneakers and sports apparel brings out the kid in them.

After Cavaliers practice ended Saturday, a handful of players and several team personnel members hopped a bus to the Nike Employee Store to do some shopping.

At this Nike Employee Store in Portland, Daniel Gibson wrote on his Twitter account. Aint nothing like dat New Shoe smell #ImGoinIn

Beaverton is a town built by The Swoosh. The companys spectacular corporate campus is located here in a wood area just outside of downtown Portland. Its structures are named for athletes and coaches such as Tiger Woods...

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If he was not afflicted with HIV, then he might not have been suffering 35 years imprisonment. This man from Texas is serving 35 year prison sentence as he spit at a police officer.

Such a long imprisonment has given birth to debate where Republican Minister Barbara Lee said such long sentences were given a at a time when AIDS pandemic was at its worst. That time nobody was fully aware of its transmission sources and in order to avoid any further problems such punishments were given.

Now it has become quite clear that AIDS does not spreads through saliva or tear or sweat. It gets only transmitted through unprotected sex, sharing of used syringes and births by an HIV-infected...

Insurance firm Northwestern Mutual, which today signed a deal to become the tenth official corporate partner of the NCAA, plans to embrace March Madness and other collegiate programs in a big way.

Northwestern Mutual said it would launch the partnership with what it called a visible role during the NCAA Division I Mens Basketball Tournament, televised on TBS, CBS, truTV and TNT. Activation would be anchored by media rights to the presenting sponsorship of the telecast of the First Four on truTV, in-game telecast graphic enhancements during the Tournament and custom in-studio videos to air within Tournament game coverage.

In a broader strategy, the company said it would reach...

The Meadow Villas (171 Meadows Drive West Warm Springs, Va.) offers a mountain retreat via three luxurious private villas thatll go easy on your budget.

Now through March, you can score the Ski, Stay and Play package at the Quiet Waters Villa for just $279 for three days and nights. Ski at the local Homestead ski hill or if you are a more advanced skier, Snowshoe in West Virginia is an hour away.

Located in the George Washington National Forest near the slopes of Warm Springs Mountain, these villas offer privacy and relaxation any time of year.

The Quiet Waters Villa is the most secluded and private. This one-bedroom villa has an indoor waterfall feature(!), gas fireplace...

3. Now relax the muscles around your hips and waist. Let the relaxation flow up to the abdomen into the chest. A good trick is to try to imagine the surface under you is pushing up into your back, so that you get a sensation of heaviness.

4. Let the relaxation go up into your shoulders, jaw and facial muscles, especially round the eyes and forehead.

5. Practise this twice a day for 15 to 20 minutes each time. However, even as little as three minutes will be sufficient to give you a sense of wellbeing. The best time to practise is just before mealtimes or an hour afterwards.

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The Bridge, an offbeat church in a Flint, Michigan shopping center, is offering tattoos to its members. It also offers occasional classes in cage fighting, poetry slams and auto repair.

“A Michigan pastor who says hes doing everything he can to reach out to people who dont feel comfortable at a traditional house of worship has opened a tattoo parlor inside his church,” reports Businessweek magazine.

Relaxation drinks are poised to become increasingly popular as a sleep aid and relaxant in a fast-paced, sleep deprived society. shutterstock.com

SANTA MONICA, Calif. — The relaxation drink production industry is projected to grow from now to 2016 due to increased per capita disposable income and demand from convenience stores and other retailers, according to a new report by industry research firm IBISWorld. Additionally, existing relaxation drink companies are signing national distribution deals, indicating market acceptance and familiarity.

Relaxation drinks were unable to achieve fast-paced growth in the five years leading up to 2011 because of their low base and the already established market for sleep aids and products that help people focus. Report data shows that industry revenue grew at a 68.7 percent annualized...

The term oxymoron is rarely used in our modern culture, or at least rarely used correctly. But were pretty sure green chainsaw is a good one. Really, Stihl? Youre going to promote a battery-powered device designed to cut down trees as Caring for Nature (no, really, theres a little badge on their site that says just that)? Really?

On the other hand, this chainsaw is so awesome, even people who hate trees will love it.

To be fair to Stihl, the real appeal of this thing isnt that you can protect the trees; its so that homeowners and handymen can do their jobs without hauling a lot of fuel along with them to power their chainsaws. Chainsaws are serious gas moochers, and even...