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Seattle's publicly traded big businesses have only eight more days to announce their second-quarter results by the SEC-mandated August 14 deadline. Already, it seems that the Puget Sound Business Journal has nearly used up an entire thesaurus-worth of words that can describe losing a ridiculous amount of money. So far, we've heard: Jones Soda loses $2 million, Costco July sales fall, ZymoGenetics loses $27M in Q2, Nordstrom's July sales slid and Radio, TV ad dips hurt Fisher in Q2. Well, here's to hoping for better third-quarter results and positive, uplifting descriptors.

FREE POP SODAS FOR SEATTLEITES: For quite some time, every Friday the folks over at Jones Soda handed out free sodas to their South Lake Union neighbors and passersby, dubbing the program "Free Soda Friday." Well, the soda makers are offering not just the parched and thirsty, but all of Seattle a free Jones Soda, if you stop by their SLU headquarters today from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. (And if you can't make it today FSF will take place at the Queen Anne Metropolitan Market the next two Fridays.) 8 a.m.-5 p.m., Friday // Jones Soda Co., 234 Ninth Avenue North // One free soda per person

Seattlest is always looking for interesting events to cover, and this season, one holiday party in particular caught our eye: Latkepalooza, the only place to be on December 24th for Seattle's Jewish community. This morning, we caught up on Google Chat with the Jewish Federation's Cameron Levin, the Young Leadership Division Director who organizes and promotes the annual party with her Volunteer Chair Nick Barrat, to find out more.

You may have thought a turkey-and-gravy-flavored soda would be disgusting. No, it gets worse. A Christmas-season four-pack of Seattle-based Jones Soda features bottles labeled Sugar Plum, Eggnog, Christmas Tree, and Christmas Ham. (There's a Chanukah pack, too, with a dreidel inside: latke, applesauce, chocolate coins, jelly donut.) But we're not here to be disgusting, we're here to be informative.

Jones Soda, local maker of odd-flavored sodas sweetened with actual sugar is still going through tough times. According to the Puget Sound Business Journal, Jones Soda is laying off 42 of its 110 employees thanks to a second quarter loss of $2.7 million. Apparently, an effort to expand into can sales didn't fly, so 38 percent of the staff has to go. Most of those losing their jobs are in the sales department. Jones will keep selling canned soda in "only in the locations that have proven profitable." Shares in Jones lost 21 percent during today's overall stock market crash.

Poor Jones Soda. It's been a tough year. Whereas they were once the stand-out local kids who were every bit as nutty and obsessed with soda as Northwest microbrewers are with their beer, nowadays it seems like every newly hyped win is a loss. Yeah, in the last year they busted out nationally and became the official soda at Qwest Field. But just a couple weeks ago, it was announced that in Q4 '07, Jones Soda lost $10 million dollars.

For the quarter ended Dec. 31, the company posted a 39-cent-per-share loss -- 13 times the 3-cent loss that analysts were expecting. During the same period a year ago, the company posted net income of $2 million, or 8 cents a share.

Seattlest was recently in the market for an engagement ring. Knowing almost nothing about diamonds, settings, or the metals they bling on, we guessed that finding the right ring was going to be a long, arduous and intimidating quest. We were wrong. It wasn’t arduous.

The Seattle International Film Festival starts May 24. All 405 films. Tickets are on sale to members right now; hoi polloi, this Sunday. New this year is that if you buy a multi-ticket package, you can then order tickets online to the specific films you want to see. That is thanks to POP, who do SIFF's website.

FORTUNE magazine recently released its 2006 list of the 500 largest companies in America.