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Do you have a problem with addiction? Do you smoke? Are you addicted to drugs, alcohol or gambling? Do you have a hard time controlling yourself with food or putting down your smart phone? I found a great podcast that may just help.
It's #61 of the 10% Happier Podcast with Dan Harris. In this episode, Dan talks to Dr. Judson Brewer, a neuroscientist and psychiatrist who specializes in addiction. It is very interesting and includes some great tools. You can listen to this podcast on iTunes or see below for info on getting it in Google Play.
I learned about:
- The addictive loops around food, technology, and even romantic love.
- The four noble truths that center around craving.
- Numerous studies about meditation and mindfulness with people addicted to cocaine, alcohol, and cigarettes.
- One study that to be proved twice as effective as the gold standard of smoking cessation. After four months it was 5 times better!
- How to use mindfulness to deal with cravings.
- Dr. Brewer's two great apps Craving to Quit and Eat Right Now (both are available on iTunes and Google Play)
- How the mind mistakes excitement for happiness.
- How to cultivate curiosity in meditation and the importance of it in your practice.
- My new favorite focus/mantra in meditation "Let your senses rip."
Dr. Judson Brewer is the author of The Craving Mind and he is the speaker of two TED Talks. One of which I will be sharing on next month's blog. You can follow Dr. Brewer on Twitter or his website.
The 10% Happier Podcast is based off of Dan Harris' book 10% Happier; How I Tamed the Voice In My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, And Found Self-Help That Actually Works -A True Story
I listened to the book on audible and I really enjoyed it. Click on the books on this blog to add them to your Goodreads list. For more information see the What is Goodreads? page. If you are curious about meditation and/or enjoy a good memoir, then it's a good pick.
Dan Harris, the host of the show, is also a correspondent for ABC News. He's an anchor on both Nightline and the weekend edition of Good Morning America. He's a great interviewer with a wonderful sense of humor and is passionate about the subject of meditation, but I love how he lets his skepticisms shine through.
To learn how to download this podcast on Google Play read my Podcasts on Google Play page. For a closer look at another great episode on this podcast, check out #10 of All the Things.
On Monday, I'll be back with a great feel good song to brighten your spirits. Until then, let your senses rip!
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Minster FM News
North Yorkshire police are asking you to keep safe.
Published by the Minster FM News Team at 11:32am 22nd December 2010. (Updated at 12:51pm 22nd December 2010)
With the Christmas party season in full swing, North Yorkshire Police are advising people to be mindful of the consequences of drinking to excess.
The festive season often sees a rise in sexual offences being reported to police by women who may have had too much to drink or have had their drinks spiked.
Some people lose control and become violent when drinking to excess.
There are also health issues to consider and drinking too much can not only effect your own health but can have devastating consequences for others too.
This will be highlighted when six men will be sentenced at York Crown Court for their part in a violent drink-fuelled incident in Pateley Bridge, which left Lorraine Venning with a brain injury effecting her sight, hearing, walking and her ability to carry out everyday tasks.
Lorraine will release a statement after sentencing about the devastating effect alcohol- fuelled violence has had on her life.
Assistant Chief Constable Tim Madgwick, of North Yorkshire Police, said:
"By all means go out and enjoy yourself over the festive period but please be aware that drinking to excess carries dangers which people often don't stop to think about.
"The dangers of having one too many can have a profound effect on your own life or the life of someone else.
"Drinking too much can make people act out of character, but that one moment of madness can change your or another person's life forever."
ACC Madgwick also warned women that they can be more susceptible to sexual assaults if they drink to excess and become unaware of their surroundings.
He said:
"It is important for women to be careful about how much they are drinking on a night out. Be alert to who is around you and look out for your friends, especially if they have had too much to drink.
"Keep an eye on your drink and don't leave it unattended. Don't go home alone – make transport arrangements before you go out and don't leave anyone behind.
"Becoming the victim of a sexual assault is devastating. Be sensible and do everything possible to stay safe."
Police are offering the following advice to people who are planning on going out to celebrate over the festive season:
*Know your limits and don't exceed them.
*If you don't normally go out, don't try and keep up with regular drinkers.
*Look out for your friends – especially if they've had too much to drink.
*Make arrangements to get home before you go out and don't leave anyone behind.
*Don't leave your drink unattended.
*Don't drink and drive.
Meawnhile there is special support for North Yorkshire Police's Christmas drink drive campaign
Special Constables worked alongside traffic officers in the Selby area to conduct roadside checks as part of North Yorkshire Police's Christmas drink drive enforcement campaign.
Eight officers, from both Selby and York, were on duty during the evening of Monday 20 December at Leeds Road in Selby and on the A19 at Brayton Church.
During the operation a total of 26 drivers were breathalysed. The team also issued nine Vehicle Defect Rectification Scheme notices, seven HORT 1s (these are issued to drivers who don't have their driving documents with them when they are stopped so that they can nominate a police station at which they will produce them), three fixed penalty notices and gave 11 verbal warnings.
Special Constabulary District Officer Neil Williams said:
"it is very satisfying for the Special Constabulary to support the drink drive campaign. We are more than happy to give up our free time, and even in temperatures of -10oc, knowing that we are making a real difference in our community."
PICTURE: Special Constabulary District Officer Neil Williams

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How I Love Being A Homeowner
No really. I love all the expenses and how somehow everything goes wrong at the worst possible moment. Like your shower head breaking and having to get a plumber. Oh and I also love going to work without having showered in 2 days.
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Isn't being a grown up fun?????
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OMFG I so hate it when shit like that happens! HAY-TRED. It is much easier renting…*sigh*


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In his address to the group the Pope noted that "the common denominator of the topics you are examining over these days is education and formation, which today represent one of the most urgent challenges the Church and her institutions are called to face. Educational work seems to be becoming ever more arduous because, in a culture which all too often makes relativism its creed, the light of truth is lacking. Indeed, it is considered dangerous even to speak about truth, thus instilling doubt about the basic values of individual and community life".
The Holy Father went on to recall how the dicastery was founded by Benedict XV in 1915. "For nearly a hundred years", he said, "it has been doing its important work serving the various kinds of Catholic formative institute", such as the seminary, which "is one of the most important for the life of the Church and thus needs educational projects which take account of the abovementioned [cultural] context".
Benedict XVI then remarked on the fact that the participants in the plenary will be studying a draft document on "The internet and formation in seminaries". The internet, he said, "with the necessary discernment to ensure it is used intelligently and prudently, can be a useful tool, not only for the studies but also for the pastoral work of future priests in various ecclesial fields, such as evangelisation, missionary activity, catechesis, educational projects, and administration of institutions. Here too, the presence of well-prepared formators is of vital importance, as they act as faithful guides accompanying candidates to the priesthood in the correct and positive use of the information media.
"This year", he added, "marks the seventieth anniversary of the Pontifical Work for Priestly Vocations, established by the Venerable Pius XII to favour collaboration between the Holy See and the local Churches in the vital task of promoting vocations to the ordained ministry. This anniversary can be an opportunity to understand and take advantage of the most important vocational initiatives being promoted in the local Churches. It is important ... to insist more clearly on the nature of priestly ministry, characterised by its specific configuration to Christ, something which intrinsically distinguishes it from the other faithful and places it at their service".
The Pope also commented on the fact that the participants have begun a revision of the Apostolic Constitution "Sapientia christiana" on ecclesiastical universities and faculties. "One sector meriting particular attention is that of theology", he said. "It is vital for theology to remain closely linked to individual and community prayer, especially liturgical prayer".
"Catholic universities, with their highly specific identity and their openness to the 'totality' of human beings, can do precious work to promote the unity of knowledge, guiding students and teachers towards the Light of the world", he said.
The Holy Father concluded his remarks by underlining "the educational role of the teaching of Catholic religion as an academic discipline in interdisciplinary dialogue with others. It contributes, indeed, not only to the integral development of the student, but also to an understanding of others, to comprehension and mutual respect. To reach these goals, particular attention must be paid to the education of directors and formators, not only from a professional, but also from a religious and spiritual standpoint so that, through coherent lifestyle and personal involvement, the presence of Christian educators may become an expression of love and a witness of truth".


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Chicken farmers in Canada will voluntarily stop injecting eggs and chicks with antibiotics to stop the rise of resistant microbes that threaten humans and chickens, as Marc Montgomery reported this week. The ban goes into effect May 15th and scientists say that should have happened much sooner.
Canada is a federation with national and provincial governments, and because some jurisdictions overlap, regulating agriculture can become tricky. While the country has a good monitoring program which detects antibiotic resistance in animals and humans, there is no regulatory framework to set up rules to counter the problem.
In this case, chicken farmers themselves took the lead and decided that on May 15 they would stop using ceftiofur and other antibiotics. "The chicken farmers of Canada have stepped up to the plate on this and have, I think, shown a lot of leadership," says John Prescott, a professor with the Ontario Veterinary College at the University of Guelph.
'A resistance crisis'
Canada needs to tighten up the way it regulates the use of antibiotics in agriculture, says Prescott, as well as a broader strategy to prevent the development of resistant microbes. "The lesson is that we need national leadership, we need a national focus to try to improve the way we use antibiotics not only in agriculture but also in medicine," he adds, noting "there really is a resistance crisis."


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"Published in commemoration of the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Franklin Delano Roosevelt," this is an introductory tribute to Campobello and its people, offered in photographs and text. This copy signed and dated by Muskie, on half-title, in year of publication. Blue cloth w/silver lettering to cover/spine, 131 pages (including chapter notes/bibliography). Mild general wear.
Title: Campobello: Roosevelt's "Beloved Island" (signed)
Illustrator: photographs by the author
Categories: Non-fiction, Signed (all categories),
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Camden, Down East Books: 1982
ISBN Number: 0-89272-137-5
ISBN Number 13: 9780892721375
Binding: Hard Cover
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Weather Blog: Wintry feel returns
Thank you for stopping by the Weather Watch 12 blog! December weather finally decided to show up, as colder temperatures return to the forecast. In today's blog we discuss how long the wintry feel remains in the forecast and look ahead to yet another warm-up.
The first half of December is now complete. The first 16 days of the month were the second warmest on record in Milwaukee! The average monthly temperature so far is 41.5°. An impressive 12.8° above average!
The average monthly temperature will cool some over the next several days with colder temperatures in the forecast. The quick shot of cold air will feel frigid. Highs near 30° sounds cold, but really that is about where our highs should land this time of year.
However, once we add in some wind, the feels like temperature may dip to the single digits in spots by Friday morning. Winter coats may be needed today through Saturday.
The cold air will not last long, look for another warm-up to arrive for the second half of the weekend. Highs return to the 40s by Sunday and Monday. As milder temperatures return the result will be a chance of rain late Sunday.
If you are hoping for snow before Christmas, time is running out. We may see rain changing to some snow(snow showers or flurries) around December 24. More on that chance in the coming days.
For the latest weather information watch WISN 12 News, and for updates throughout the day follow me on Twitter, Instagram, & Periscope @jnelsonweather
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As some of you may know, I am able to write out some of your life Karma for you. Although I don't go into future lives, I remind everyone that we set up our future lives by the way we choose to live this one. A Karma Reading is also a wonderful, insightful gift to others, and can open the Spiritual Heart to knowledge and a deeper understanding of how this Universe works. Below I have tried to explain karma, reincarnation, and what we experience in the afterlife. This information came from my out-of-body experience on the island of Maui, Hawaii in the late 1980's. You can read the details in my latest book, Unlimited Realities.
Click here to order your karma reading for yourself or as a gift for someone special.
Belief in Reincarnation
Most of us do not reach the State of Being in one lifetime. Through reincarnation the soul is allowed to be born again, through multiple times, until it finally reaches The State of Being. Each lifetime brings with it lessons and challenges for the Soul to experience so it can repair its transgressions, and heal. This is the only way we can improve our character and life quality.
Belief in Reincarnation is necessary to,
1. Lead a life based on what we need to learn and experience to bring strength to the Soul, allowing it to ascend by changing it vibration levels.
2. Attain The State of Being
When we are leading a life based on the Laws of Karma, we often realize that people who are leading an abandoned life have a better standard of living. This is paradoxical because we are taught that God should reward us and punish sinners. However, the belief in Reincarnation enables us to explain this paradox. We can suppose that we have committed sins and made karmic mistakes in our past life, and the sinners, enjoying a better standard of living, comes from their past-life karma bank. If they could realize that living a life walking the spiritual path would enable them to create better living for the welfare of the society, they could choose whether to waste their good energy and not carelessly throw it away in their current lifetime. By throwing away their Karma earned, the next lifetime promises to be event more difficult and possibly tragic for them.
The State of Being — and Belief in Reincarnation:
Whenever our life is ruined beyond repair the best option is to start a new life. However, to attain The State of Being we must not make even small changes in our life style unless the opportunity is presented by Divine forces. The belief in Karma and Reincarnation enables us to work from within concerning the fluctuations in our life. We can block fluctuations in our current life with imaginary successes and failures in our past life and allow unemotional thoughts to enter our conscious mind. Absence of changes in life would enable us to discard the voluntary force needed to deal with a change; thinking, talking, and action. This would enable us to lead a life with pure involuntary force, by being "in the flow" and accepting the energies of the current moment or whatever the day brings to us — which is meant by living in the Flow with your Blessed Higher Self.
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by Martin Espada
This is the year that squatters evict landlords,
gazing like admirals from the rail
of the roofdeck
or levitating hands in praise
of steam in the shower;
this is the year
that shawled refugees deport judges
who stare at the floor
and their swollen feet
as files are stamped
with their destination;
this is the year that police revolvers,
stove-hot, blister the fingers
of raging cops,
and nightsticks splinter
in their palms;
this is the year
that darkskinned men
lynched a century ago
return to sip coffee quietly
with the apologizing descendants
of their executioners.
This is the year that those
who swim the border's undertow
and shiver in boxcars
are greeted with trumpets and drums
at the first railroad crossing
on the other side;
this is the year that the hands
pulling tomatoes from the vine
uproot the deed to the earth that sprouts the vine,
the hands canning tomatoes
are named in the will
that owns the bedlam of the cannery;
this is the year that the eyes
stinging from the poison that purifies toilets
awaken at last to the sight
of a rooster-loud hillside,
pilgrimage of immigrant birth;
this is the year that cockroaches
become extinct, that no doctor
finds a roach embedded
in the ear of an infant;
this is the year that the food stamps
of adolescent mothers
are auctioned like gold doubloons,
and no coin is given to buy machetes
for the next bouquet of severed heads
in coffee plantation country.
If the abolition of slave-manacles
began as a vision of hands without manacles,
then this is the year;
if the shutdown of extermination camps
began as imagination of a land
without barbed wire or the crematorium,
then this is the year;
if every rebellion begins with the idea
that conquerors on horseback
are not many-legged gods, that they too drown
if plunged in the river,
then this is the year.
So may every humiliated mouth,
teeth like desecrated headstones,
fill with the angels of bread.
Martin Espada has been called "the Latino poet of his generation" and "the Pablo Neruda of North American authors." Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1957, he has published seventeen books in all as a poet, editor, essayist and translator.
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I'm mostly interested in the history-making people and their stories--in the lives and times of people like Harry Ashmore, Sid McMath, Orval Faubus, Winthrop Rockefeller and Dale Bumpers.
And I'm interested in the man writing about them--Ernest Dumas, a good, gentle and generous soul, now 81, who was the very embodiment of the late, great Arkansas Gazette in the years I spent there, indeed the greater number of years he spent as Capitol reporter, columnist and editorial writer.
Practically every newsroom employee of the Gazette in those days, from the late 1950s until 1991, had reason to consider Dumas his or her best friend. And he was.
That didn't mean we were all his best friend. It is not feasible to make a credible ranking amid such a multitude.
As I put it in introducing Dumas at a panel discussion a couple of years ago: "Everybody but me says Ernie is the leading political journalist of our time in Arkansas."
Later in that same panel discussion, I asked David Pryor how it felt when historians ranked the great governors of the state and invoked George Donaghey, McMath, Rockefeller and Bumpers, but never David. "Kinda the way you feel when everybody says Ernie is the best newspaperman of our time in Arkansas," Pryor replied.
As Dumas tells it, this new book, put out by the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies at the Central Arkansas Library System, came about because former library director Bobby Roberts commanded him to stop telling and retelling his stories long enough to get them written for posterity before he forgot them.
The book is titled The Education of Ernie Dumas and the author is identified as "Ernest Dumas." That seems right. As a writer and journalist, Dumas has always had a seriousness, a modest formality, an essence as "Ernest" and "earnest." He wrote columns without ever referring to himself. On the other hand, there was a local columnist who made his debut in 1986 and, within weeks, found his "I" key faded and sticking.
But to watch a Hog basketball game with Dumas, or vacation with him in Northern Ireland and ride shotgun as he takes narrow curves sideways, or chat him up at the neighborhood grocery store or coffee shop, or deliver your Gazette oral history to his questioning in his living room, is to hang with "Ernie."
So, to some of the book's stories about the aforementioned lives and times:
• Harry Ashmore was the Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial writer for the Gazette who bravely and historically advocated moderate, law-abiding integration at Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Sid McMath was the war hero from Hot Springs who returned as a home-state reformer and would have launched a progressive era in Arkansas from his governorship in 1949-53 except for the interruption of Orval Faubus and international disgrace.
Here's how Dumas introduces Ashmore and McMath on Page 31: "A South Carolinian with the educated aristocrat's preference for gradual and dignified evolution, Ashmore like many other Southerners had his conscience pricked on the battlefields of World War II. He was an infantry colonel in George Patton's Third Army and came home from Europe imbued with the idea that the greatest flaw in American democracy, particularly in the citadel of the Confederacy where he was reared, had somehow to be fixed. A U.S. Marine hero in the Pacific, Colonel Sidney McMath, came home to Arkansas similarly impassioned. Ashmore and McMath, by then the governor, became good friends, and, in 1951, McMath had Ashmore address the Southern governors at a conference in Little Rock on their obligations to embrace or protect, as a matter of observing the rule of law, the civil rights that before long were certain to be coming through the courts."
• Can you imagine Faubus as a lonely conflicted politician beset with apprehension and physically harmful stress? Well, you should, writes Dumas, on Page 45. "For a while, in the winter of 1961-62, Faubus toyed with the idea of retirement, or at least a respite from politics and the unrelenting anxiety of governing, which are particularly vexing when you have no one, not even a family member, with whom you care to share your misgivings, regrets or apprehensions."
• Of Rockefeller, Dumas writes on Page 92 of the richest of ironies, with "richest" applying in more ways than one: "It is safe to say that not a dozen Arkansawyers knew what they were getting when they voted in the fall of 1966 to make Winthrop Rockefeller their governor, nor were many more of them sure of it when the experiment ended four years later and the heartbroken man, then only 60 years old, left the state Capitol to grieve the final miscarriage of his dreams. Twenty-five months later, he was dead. Rockefeller would remain--perhaps always will remain--the most liberal governor in Arkansas history, and by any definition of the word, among the most liberal in American history."
• And of the charismatic rise of Dale Bumpers, whom Dumas adored, Ernie relates a wealth of insight but never with greater relevance than in explaining that Bumpers' flair for sometimes-edgy humor deflected detraction and helped propel him from obscurity in 1970. Here's the single best example, on Page 134: In trouble in the Democratic runoff against the rising phenom Bumpers, and knowing it, Faubus called a news conference to say he'd been told he'd be assassinated in six months if elected, but that he would bravely persist. That evening in Pine Bluff, at an appearance he shared with Faubus, Bumpers took the microphone and encouraged everyone to vote for him to save Orval's life. The crowd of railroad workers, thought to be Faubus supporters, roared in laughter. Faubus abandoned the supposed threat as any kind of talking point.
On Monday evening, Dumas was a rock star drawing a big crowd of Little Rock's celebration-ravenous progressive community to the Ron Robinson Theater. The auditorium overflowed. The book-signing line was still so long when it came time for Dumas to speak that the people left in line were given numbers for reassembling after the presentation.
Dumas told great stories--of course--in his presentation for the delighted crowd. But he closed in a way that was, in part, good hyperbolic fun and, in part, serious and quite nearly profound.
He said the book had a thread, a theme, if you looked hard enough. It's that the great Arkansas feud between the Stephens family and Sheffield Nelson, dating at least to 1978, led to Nelson having a New York Times reporter to whom he leaked and the Stephenses having a New York Times reporter who tried to help them deflect what Nelson was leaking to the other.
The long and short of the meandering saga, Ernie explained, is that Sheffield Nelson's leaking to his reporter led to the first Whitewater stories in The Times in 1992 about then-candidate for president Bill Clinton's inconsequentially failed little land deal.
And that, you see, led to Clinton's impeachment on something else entirely and such a lasting smearing of Hillary that she lost even to Donald Trump, which led to the demise of the Atlantic alliance, official disregard for global warming, the full decline of civil discourse and the end of Western civilization as we know it.
"It's all right here," Dumas said, pointing to his book.
Lest anyone think him boastful, he said his presentation of the theme was so disjointed and dense that no one would detect it.
But it's laid out quite clearly, from Page 352 until the end of the book.
You can get the book through the Butler Center or at Wordsworth Books in Little Rock or through Amazon, and elsewhere no doubt.
And a postscript: For the last few months, Dumas has been working with an old and once-bitter rival, the publisher of the Democrat-Gazette, Walter Hussman, on this year's commemoration of the Gazette's founding 200 years ago.
Hussman told me Dumas was the obvious person to whom he reached out as a bridge to the old Gazette. He said their first meeting lasted a couple of hours.
"He told a lot of great stories, and I just listened," Hussman said, which describes any Ernie Dumas conversation.
John Brummett, whose column appears regularly in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, is a member of the Arkansas Writers' Hall of Fame. Email him at email@example.com. Read his @johnbrummett Twitter feed.
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Drafted at the end of May this year. Two months until we flew to Canada.
So the latest thing we have to confront in our quest for a possible home in the northern hemisphere where it snows in winter is the cost of relocating our goods. To move everything across, excluding electrical appliances as the voltage differs too greatly, is simply not financially viable. We need to cull.
Now this shouldn't be such an issue for us given we don't have a lot of stuff as it is and the majority of what we do have was either free or cheap, but this isn't just a matter of leaving out a few things we don't really care about. This cull sees us leaving behind three quarters of our worldly possessions. These are things we've had not just since we first met but things that belonged to each of us years before, as children, even things that belonged to our parents and grandparents.
The bookshelf is the hardest piece of furniture to give up, even though we were given it free. It was blue, purple and pink and missing a shelf but we recognised it as a solid piece of furniture with style and we sanded it down, bought a new shelf, and painted it a chalky, off-white gloss. It wasn't long before our then-toddler smashed the rocking chair into its base on many occasions and chipped off bits of paint. But we stood him against its side every six months and marked his height and the date with a felt tip pen. It was to be a portable height chart. When our daughter arrived we marked her length at birth on the other side. It was almost as good as owning our own family home and marking heights on a doorframe. But now, will even the bookshelf need to find a new home? And the books it holds?
Today I chucked out some books I truly don't like or want but it was just a handful. In truth, I love our collection of books, from Mr Chewbacca's extensive Ian Ranking collection and the thick one about South African history that he assures me he's actually read to all those Steiner ones ill probably never read and old favourites like Atonement or the Anthony Keidis autobiography or the Star Wars almanac. I'm struggling to come to terms with the possibility of leaving them behind to pursue an avenue that may actually prove wrong.
Everything is riding on this. It has to be right. But I've never felt so uncertain.


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Wests Tigers slow recovery from COVID-19 pandemic04/07/2020|6min
NRL club the Wests Tigers, like much of the sports industry, was forced to hibernate operations and restrict attendance to matches, constituting a major financial hit as the coronavirus pandemic took hold. Wests Tigers CEO Justin Pascoe said his organisation was "fortunate to apply for JobKeeper and be accepted through that scheme". "It allowed us to re-engage with 47 staff we had let go - with amended hours of course," Mr Pascoe said. Mr Pascoe praised new ARL Commissioner Peter Vlandys as well as club managers and CEOs in the handling of their businesses in the midst of the coronavirus. "I think it's been a terrific opportunity for the sport to leapfrog its competitors," he said. "We've been very humbled by the support from, stakeholders and supporters. "We'll come through the other side stronger." Image: News Corp Australia


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Budget Friendly Ways to Decorate for Halloween
Whether you are seeking to impress trick-or-treaters, hosting a "Spook"tacular Halloween party or just love the whimsy surrounding Halloween, decorating for Halloween can get expensive. The truth is though, it doesn't have to be. There are several budget friendly ways to decorate this Halloween without having to flatten your wallet or compromise on the spooky factor of your home.
Pumpkin Leaf Bags
These kill two birds with one stone so to speak. If leaves have already started to descend from the trees in your neighbourhood rake them into piles and pack them into pumpkin leaf bags. Not only will you be cleaning up the leaves from your lawn, but you will be doing some fun decorating in the process.
Mummy Lanterns
Use Mason Jars and cheesecloth to create spooky mummy lanterns. Simply wrap the jar in cheesecloth, place a battery-operated candle inside and arrange them on your porch.
Paint Your Pumpkins
Who said pumpkins had to be orange? Paint them with black chalk paint and write spooky sayings on them or turn them into black cats with googly eyes and cut out ears.
Use Solar Lanterns
Line your walkways with spooky solar lanterns. Not only will this make it safer for those visiting your home, but it creates a spooky low light to guide people to your door.
Scary Blood Foot Prints
Create a path of scary, bloody footprints outside that leads up to your door. All you must do is step into washable red paint with your bare feed and walk towards your entry way. This is a spooky way to show guests the way to the candy.
Ghostly Draperies
Using cheesecloth, create some tattered draperies to hang around the yard and in front of your front door. These will blow in the wind and add a spooky, eerie vibe to your entrance way.
Mummify Your Door
Using white streamers, wrap your front door, securing the ends to ensure they don't fly off. Then use construction paper to create eyes and secure to the streamers using tape or a glue gun.
Decorating for Halloween doesn't have to be expensive. There are several budget friendly ways to decorate for Halloween this year. Consider using items you already have around your home like leaves, mason jars, cheese cloth, red paint and even white streamers leftover for other celebrations. The possibilities are endless and terrifying, leaving your yard ready for Halloween and your wallet happy.


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Hebrew or Hindi?
A particular set of my friends often indulge in the phenomenon of chain mails. Chain mails, where people Reply to All (the sender and receivers) and carry out a full conservation. These chain mails are between a set of friends and often full of inside jokes, lots of leg pulling, the general conversation of friends (not the obnoxious, ultra foolish kind which sometimes happen at universities).
So, in one of the chain mails with my friends which I am recently embroiled into is all about one oneupmanship in mastery of Hebrew. Two of my friends are arguing over the use of certain (and very basic) Hebrew words, and their usage. A lot of accusing each other to be using French and calling it Hebrew is also going on. So, ze ( ) thing is, the two of them are now trying to apprise each other of the pronunciation of the said words. And Hindi is being employed to clear out the dark pronunciation cloud.
All this happening over Gmail, and my sponsored links are in … Hindi. For all the fist fighting going on, Hebrew links would have been more informative, really.


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I wish CLEAR would allow you to clear only certain website's cookies. I hate having to clear all of the cookies in my browser just for one website.
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I use a JS file to loop through hundreds of IIM files.
Bug: While the JS file is running, if I close the iMacros window, sometimes a popup comes up saying something about the Macro being stopped since I closed the window, but regardless of the popup, the Macro contiunes to run, even with the window closed. I think this is in relation to the the following suggestion.
Suggestion: When running one of the IIM files, if I hit stop, it stops the IIM file and then the JS file continues. I wish I could be able to stop the JS file along with the IIM file.


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Welcome, one and all to the most intense nightly read anywhere on the 'sphere…The BitsBlog Nightly Ramble.
This is the Sporting Goods Edition
- Letterman smear? Of a 14 year old, no less? And of course it's OK if they're conservative. [2] Joyner adds his two cents. [3] Think the attack on Palin isn't full-tilt-bozo? They're even after Palin's toenails [4], if you're ready for that. How vacuous need one be? Smacks to me of desperation on the part of the left.
- More leftie respect for women: Melissa Clouthier [5] notes yet another example of how leftists 'respect' women. Hawkins, you got a hell of a deal when you got Melissa to blog for you.
- Bye Bye, Analog TV: Only two more days! Full -power Analog TV officially goes away on Friday. Buddy Scott Fybush lists some of the activity [6]in the Northeast. Lots of transmitters that have been on the air for decades will go silent for the last time, if they've not already.
- Yes, Virginia, there is a GOP: Terry McCauliffe lost the primary to Deeds in Virginia, [7] which means, in my view we have a very good situation there. Every polling data I've seen shows Bob McDonnell, the GOP candidate, leading handily in ever poll taken this year. McDonnell has a huge lead in cash raised, too.. by 10 to 1.
- The Dropping Ratings: Drudge ran headlines yesterday about how Kaite Couric's ratings are less than perky. Hot Air [8]pipes up on that one. Good, because I didn't get the chance to attend to that one yesterday. In fairness, all of the news outlets are dropping ratings. All except one, that is. Guess which one? [9]
- Billy Beck on Health care: Billy nails it here [10], and in more than just health care.
Pay attention where Klein cannot: when a government can steal everyone's productivity in order to (in this twit's parlance) "purchase" the entire product of a given business, it doesn't need to "own" anything else about that business. It has already claimed everything at the root. It doesn't have to "own" MRI machines, etc., because it owns you.The principles are the things that the socialists do not want you to identify. That's why you will, if you look around, find endless, sterile and completely pathetic "debates" over whether fascism is socialism. And while you're out there kicking that rusty can around, this government has its way with you.
I submit, Billy, that the thing is already feit accompli, given the level of regulation already in place. This just closes the lid on it. Mona Charen adds her thoughts here. [12] And if you think health care is the only place where the Democrats are imposing this stuff consider the Banks [13], and consider the car you drive [14]. Are you getting the idea, yet?
- Deadly CAFE: Speaking of that I'm currently working on a piece examining the increased CAFE standards and their effect on your continued existence. It'll be ready in a few days, I think.
- Anon: Speaking of Beck, he says today [15], regarding the "Publius" nonsense:
"…. There was never a "convention" that allowed anonymity irresponsibility."
Just so, Billy. I took part in the takedown of two Usenet idiots who were operating in the same territory "Publius" operated in for years, and given the same conditons I'll do it again. And Dan, again [16], Let's be kind, and just say I disagree… something I rarely do with you. I point you to my comment of yesterday:
Because of the increased amount of damage that one can do while so cloaked in anonymity, writing anonymously about someone else, as was being done by "Publius" here, requires an increased caution… even while allowing such a person to toss caution to the winds, since they are then disconnected from the direct consequences of their comments.
- So, why are you there? The government installed GM chair, claims he knows nothing about cars [17]. Yeah, that's gonna work, huh?
- Forget the rest of the Stimulus: That's what about 45% of those polled are saying [18]. Clearly the message has gone out, and the message is, this crap ain't working, Barry [19]. Just how bad is it? This bad:
- As we watch UK's Labor party falling…. Just remember, Gang, Obama's got us headed down the same path. [20] Over at Forbes, Paul Johnson examines the situation in the UK [21]:
Both ministers and MPs have become careless and insensitive to the way in which they handle the taxpayers' money.
However, during the last year the public has become aware of just how fundamentally things have changed. Newspaper investigations and the publication of MPs' expenses, along with provisions for "second homes" (made "necessary" by the distances between their constituencies and Parliament), have told a sorry tale of fiddling, extravagance and downright fraud. There have also been instances of peers who have brazenly used their position to promote their business interests.The public is outraged, and politicians, as a class, have become unpopular, even hated. If an election were held today New Labour would be reduced to a small minority. But there's a year to go before an election becomes mandatory, and more revelations of political corruption are expected.It's fortunate that the far right in Britain lacks a charismatic figure capable of campaigning on an anti-Parliamentary platform. Even so, the outlook is bleak, and admirers of the British constitution and way of doing things are in despair.
The similarity between what Johnson describes there and what's happening stateside is remarkable., and the outcome in each case is obvious.
- Air France a terror strike after all? Seems a reasonable question given some of the names that have been popping up there [23].
- New Orleans Mayor finally initiates evacuation plan: Ray Nagin has been released by Chinese authorities. [24] And look….The man's got a wasteland for a city, with crime skyrocketing… and he goes to China?


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- For this Saturday's senior practice (12/1) if your swimmer is tapering please expect practice to conclude around 9 a.m. Swimmers not tapering will have practice until 10 a.m. as usual.
- Due to meet attendance the following practices are cancelled:
- Age Group Saturday 12/1
- All practices on Friday 12/7 and Saturday 12/8
- Morning practice on Monday 12/10
- Due to high school functions practice details are different than usual for the following practices, please check the calendar for specifics:
- Age Group Thursday 12/13
- Age Group Tuesday 12/18
- Flash Thursday 12/20
- The website calendar is updated with the expected winter break schedule. The possibility remains for changes to occur. Please check the calendar daily during the break in case of any changes.
- Remember: Please check the calendar for your swimmer's practice information each day. Due to the variety in the high school schedules (which impact our CBST practices) it is imperative that you check the calendar every day. We'll do our best to put any changes in emails but cannot promise that every single change will be emailed.
Please refer to the GRA meet information emailed on Wednesday.
Meet Availability is currently in the portal for the following meet:
- Central Bucks Swim Team Spring Fever (February 9-10, 2019)
Individuals not swimming in a meet (including parents and other family members of swimmers) may not be on deck during a meet (home or away) except when working as an on-deck volunteer at their assigned time. When on deck working, officials and other volunteers should be in the spot where they need to be to do their job (which is never the CBST team area).
If your swimmer's plans change and s/he is unable to attend a meet that s/he is entered in, please email Heather Yim at firstname.lastname@example.com and Coach Stu at email@example.com as soon as possible. Barring an emergency, swimmers will not be scratched from events the day of the meet (if a swimmer wishes to scratch they must do so prior to the day of the meet). Unfortunately, sometimes emergency situations do arise in which a swimmer has to scratch the meet on the day-of. In such cases, please make sure you email both Heather Yim and Coach Stu to ensure that the coaching staff attending the meet is notified. It is difficult for both the meet director and our coaches to manage when they are unaware that a registered swimmer will not be in attendance.
NCAP Hotel Information:
The NCAP meet host has provided a few hotel room blocks for those attending their meet. Please note it appears that the only hotel on the preferred list providing shuttle service to the pool is The Marriott Inn & Conference Center. We have been informed by the meet host that parking will not be available on campus at The University of Maryland for swim meet participants on Friday, however, onsite parking will be available on Saturday and Sunday. Please see the attached document for the Group Name to reference at the time of booking.
Our coaches have chosen to stay at one of the preferred NCAP hotels listed below.
The Marriott Inn & Conference Center, UMD
3501 University Boulevard E
Hyattsville, MD 20783
If you have any questions regarding the above hotel information, please contact Heather Yim at firstname.lastname@example.com
December bills will be emailed next week. If you do not receive your bill please check your junk/spam/settings and email me if you're unable to locate it. Recall that everyone receives a bill every month even if nothing is due. Payments will be due by December 25th.
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Shop foreman and I made a paper template of the transom doubler and laid it out on a scrap piece of 6mm Okoume.
Test fitting in place.
Transom sanded with 80 grit and masked in preparation for the doubler.
Had to come up with some crazy clamping rigs to get decent pressure. The doubler was pre-coated with epoxy and I used the thickened epoxy that squoze out to form a small fillet. The masking tape was removed before the epoxy set and no further finish work was needed..
Trying not to damage the existing finish by using big pads to distribute the clamping pressure. Worked out well.
New transom is bulletproof and practically indistinguishable from stock. The repair added 600 g of weight. Yes I weighed it.


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We have posted more information about Assamo's movement around Djibouti. Have a look at it here. However, I wanted to point out a pretty interesting feature of his behavior that this tracking is showing. During most of the tracking Assamo has seemed to move from place to place in a rather random fashion, presumably looking for feeding opportunities and then taking them. During 23-28 May 2013, Assamo abandoned that strategy and seemed to become a commuter to and from what appears to be the garbage dump in the town of Ali Sabieh. He made daily trips in the early morning to the town, then mostly spent his afternoons and nights about 10 km south, just into Ethiopia. The map below shows you what I mean. Here is what he did:
22 May 1130 in Ali Sabieh, 1430 in Ethiopia
23 May 0530 in Ali Sabieh, 0830 in Ethiopia
24 May 0530 in Ali Sabieh, 1130 in Ethiopia
25 May 0830 in Ali Sabieh, 1430 in Ethiopia
26 May 0830 in Ali Sabieh, 1430 in Ethiopia
27 May 0830 in Ali Sabieh, 0830 in Ethiopia, 1130 back just east of Ali Sabieh, 1430 farther north
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Michael Lynton doesn't fear challenges--he embraces them. That's a good thing, because he is leading Sony Pictures Entertainment through a period of tectonic shifts in the movie industry. At Sony, the former Disney executive who then headed Penguin Group and later AOL Europe will have to slash costs, find new opportunities in video-on-demand and combat file-sharing piracy. But Lynton believes there's a future for DVDs; he helped bring in a major financing partner for Sony's purchase of MGM and its valuable library of movies. "With new technologies," Lynton says, "the DVD becomes even better." --By Jeffrey Ressner/Los Angeles...
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Devastated by her husband's betrayal, a mob wife moves on.
They were once so in love it should have been illegal! But the love affair between Mob Wives: New Blood star Alicia DiMichele Garofalo and her jailbird husband, reputed Colombo family mobster Eddie "Tall Guy" Garofalo Jr., has served its time.
In an OK! exclusive, Alicia says that she plans to file for divorce within the next couple of months! Here's the scoop on Alicia's bombshell: "There are too many reasons to mention," she says, but among them is "a lot of betrayal."
Eddie's transgressions — in addition to the 2013 embezzlement charges that got him sentenced to federal prison — include a secret dinner date with his ex-girlfriend, Carla Murino, captured on a wiretap.
"I was eight months pregnant and he lied and said he was working," Alicia declares. In reality, "he was going out to dinner with her and didn't come home."
Watch: Alicia and Drita show us what's in their purses
Though the show appears to portray current events, Eddie left the Marlton, N.J., house the couple shared with their three sons — ages 18, 11 and 8 — four years ago.
"I heard Carla on his wiretaps more than three and a half years ago," Alicia says. "We haven't been together since then."
While running her two clothing boutiques, Alicia's also awaiting sentencing on her own charge of embezzling money from the trucking company she once co-owned with Eddie.
"At the end of the day, I could be taken away from my children," she says. "I don't know what's worse than that."
In the meantime, she is ready to move on from the heartbreak Eddie has caused her.
"Who is going to save me? I have three boys depending on me. I can't fail now. I have to save myself."
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Jennifer Love Hewitt was at the E! News studios on Wednesday (April 9) to chat about her nearly 5-month-old daughter Autumn.
She gushed, "I just feel like my heart expanded quadruple and every time I look at her, I just melt. It's great. And I get no sleep which is also fun."
Talking about her husband Brian Hallisay – she shared, "He's great, he handles it great. He looks at me sometimes like I'm a crazy person, especially right in the beginning when we got home with her, he was like, 'You look a little crazy.' I'm like, 'All right, we'll talk about it later.'"
The actress now has a maternity clothing line with Pea in the Pod called L by Jennifer Love Hewitt.
"Well for me it's a time in your life when you want to feel really beautiful and it's a struggle sometimes because you're expanding and you're changing and your hormones are all over the place, so comfort was a big thing for me, and I really wanted to—as a woman—make other women feel beautiful and special in their clothes."
Hewitt later tweeted photos of herself with Giuliana Rancic, Terrance J., and Kristina Guerrero.
She wrote: "So much fun with @Kristina2000 today at @ENews!", and added, "Had a blast on @ENews w/ @GiulianaRancic @TerrenceJ talking about my #LbyJLH line today. Watch tonight on E! @ 7PT!"


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Jeane Dixon: The Political Prophet?
The late American seeress and mystic Jeane Dixon is an interesting character. Credited for predicting significant political events in history she would be consulted by US Presidents from FDR, Richard Nixon and is said to have had some influence over the presidential affairs of Ronald Reagan.
Dixon described herself as God's messenger, a prophet in the biblical sense who had an extraordinary prophetic accuracy that included the assassinations of Gandhi, JFK and Robert Kennedy. It´s interesting to note however, the events she forecast that would shake the world came true, whereas her predictions about mundane matters such as celebrities, everyday people and insignificant events were usually wrong. In her defense she claimed:
"When a psychic vision is not fulfilled as expected, it is not because what has been shown is not correct; it is because I have not interpreted it correctly."
Her psychical experiences came as "revelations", rare visions that communicated the will of God. When wrong she claimed her predictions were "correct when they were made", because 'this is the way people feel right now.'
Jeane Dixon was born Lydia Pinckert in 1904, though during her professional life claimed to have been in 1918 and even produced a passport to this effect. As a child she learned astrology from a Jesuit priest. The mystic claimed her gift was identified by a gypsy who she had visited with her mother as an 8-year-old. In 1939, she married James Dixon, a wealthy and influential real estate entrepreneur who also owned a number of successful car dealerships.
During her life time she wrote seven books, although one of her best sellers, My Life and Prophecies, was a fraud. After the publication of this million seller edition, Dixon was sued by Adele Fletcher, who claimed that her rejected manuscript was rewritten and published by Dixon. Fletcher was awarded five percent of the royalties by a jury.
The prophet marked her calendar with good and bad days and it is believed she used this method for Nancy Regan during her husband's administration. When Chief-of-Staff Donald Regan was dismissed from the White House he wrote in his book, ´For The Record,´ that the First Lady prepared a calendar for the president in which "Numerals were highlighted in green ink for good days, red ink for bad days and yellow ink for 'iffy' days…"
Jeane Dixon´s reputation was frowned upon in many quarters, but despite a string of incorrect predictions was still marauded by the popular press, presumably to give credit to US Presidents who were known to have consulted her. After predicting the Munich massacre of the 1972 Olympics, she claimed the USA would be subject to terrorist attacks which attracted the attention of Richard Nixon who subsequently set up a committee on counter terrorism.
Her most famous prediction came in 1960 when she prophesized a US president would die whilst he was in office – though if this prophecy has brought with it much skepticism. According to the seeress, whilst praying before the Virgin Mary in the Cathedral of St Matthew the Apostle a radiant image of the White House appeared and the number "1960" formed above it. An inner voice told her that he was a Democrat, and that the President elected in 1960 would meet with a violent death while in office. That President would be John F. Kennedy although Dixon admitted at the time she thought it would be President Nixon.
In January 1963, Dixon announced Kennedy would be dead before the end of the year. In April, she predicted he would be shot. On 13 November, Dixon allegedly tried to warn the President to avoid a visit to the south. Even more alarmingly she told radio host Long John Nebel: "Something is going to happen to Jack this week." On the 22nd November, she allegedly announced: "this is the day it will happen." One and a half hours later, Kennedy was dead.
Five years after the assassination of JFK, Dixon prophesized the death of his brother Robert Kennedy. After addressing a meeting in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, she was asked whether Robert Kennedy would win the elections. She replied, "No, he will never become President of the United States because of a tragedy that will happen right here in this hotel." A week later Kennedy was shot in a corridor of the Ambassador hotel by Jordan immigrant, Sirhan Sirhan.
Though many of Dixon´s predictions never materialized she did predict the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, the launch of Sputnik, the demise of Nikita Kruschev, and the sinking of the submarines USS Thresher and Scorpion. Other successful predictions include the plane crash that killed the UN Secretary Dag Hammarskold, the landslide election of Dwight Eisenhower, and the surprising defeat of Thomas Dewey by Harry Truman, something nobody, not even political analysts saw coming. But do you notice that all these predictions are political charged. So who was Mrs Jeane Dixon?
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Two new articles by Christian Fuchs have been published by the journals "Information" and "Sociology Compass". The first criticizes the political economy of privacy on Facebook, the second gives an introduction to the field of web 2.0 surveillance studies.
The first paper questions uncritical accounts of privacy on Facebook (and other SNS). It introduces an alternative analytical framework for studying privacy on Facebook, social networking sites and web 2.0. This framework is connecting the phenomenon of online privacy to the political economy of capitalism. Facebook's understanding of privacy is based on an understanding that stresses self-regulation and on an individualistic understanding of privacy. The theoretical analysis of the political economy of privacy on Facebook in this paper is based on the political theories of Karl Marx, Hannah Arendt and Jürgen Habermas. Based on the political economist Dallas Smythe's concept of audience commodification, the process of Facebook prosumer commodification is analyzed. The political economy of privacy on Facebook is analyzed with the help of a theory of drives that is grounded in Herbert Marcuse's interpretation of Sigmund Freud, which allows to analyze Facebook based on the concept of play labour (= the convergence of play and labour).
The second article gives an introduction to the field of social media/web 2.0 surveillance studies. This field is a new interdisciplinary research area at the intersection of the two research fields Internet Studies and Surveillance Studies. The article uses the example of Facebook for explaining basic concepts of social media/web 2.0 surveillance studies. Web 2.0 surveillance studies are in an early stage of
development. The debate thus far suggests that one might distinguish between a cultural studies approach and a critical political economy approach in studying web 2.0 surveillance. Surveillance can either be defined in a neutral or a negative way. Depending on which surveillance concept one chooses, Internet ⁄web 2.0 surveillance will be defined in different ways.Web 2.0 surveillance can be characterized as a system of panoptic sorting, mass self-surveillance and personal mass dataveillance.
1) Fuchs, Christian. 2011. An alternative view of privacy on Facebook. Information 2 (1): 140-165. [special issue on "Trust and privacy in our networked world", edited by Dieter M. Arnold and Herman T. Tavani]. PDF
2) Fuchs, Christian. 2011. New media, web 2.0 and surveillance. Sociology Compass 5 (2): 134-147. PDF


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I'm building some new closets. And by "I", I mean Terry, the guy who builds stuff for me. Terry is a guy who has rebuilt so much of my home that I based a character on him. (Gil in my most recent book, Nose Down Eyes Up.)The new closets are bigger than the old closets by half and they look great. But they just serve to point out that it wasn't actually the square footage of the previous closets that was the problem. It is the square footage of my brain . I save too much stuff. And I don't mean the usual things like clothes and shoes. Here is an example of something I really really want to throw away but simply can't. Its "Sport and Shave Ken," featuring not just a Ken with longer fuller hair than any Jonas brother but also The Best Slogan in the World: (And I checked. This is the best one.) "Shave him. He's athletic. He's all man." Come on! Give it up for Mattel ! That is one great kick ass slogan. (Although I would have liked it even better if it went "He's athletic. He's all man. Shave him." But why nit pick in the face of such a slogan achievement?) I have had "Sport and Shave Ken" since 1986 when I purchased him from a store that was closing . I imagine that the little girls who played with this toy in the early eighties may have grown up with some unusual ideas about what would be expected of them in their roles as wives or girlfriends. Read more


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Minister for Agriculture David Littleproud has begun a brief visit to Europe as he fights for more market access for Australian farmers.
Free trade agreements lay out vital agreements on tariffs on specific farm products, but scientific protocols need to be agreed to before Australia can send produce. For instance, agreement could be required on what treatment Australian fruit growers might use to kill all Queensland fruit flies and larvae on fruit to make sure the fly does not spread to the importing country. In some cases this has occurred years before an FTA is signed but in many cases it has not. Negotiations on such science can take years.
"Market access is one of the biggest parts of the agriculture portfolio," Minister Littleproud said.
"After trade deals are done, we need to actually be able to send our farm products to the countries we want to.
"Obtaining market access and negotiating export protocols are often very long processes which can be sped up by direct meetings between Ministers.
"I'll be meeting with EU Agriculture Ministers, attending the Berlin Agriculture Ministers' Conference and meeting with G20 Agriculture Ministers. I'll also meet with local farm groups, tour the World Horticulture Centre and speak to potential investors in Australian agriculture.
"These kinds of meetings help delivers our farmers more options – more countries they can sell their produce to – when harvest season comes."
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Max Charles wins Tampa Pro
Team Scitec's Max Charles won Tampa Pro and qualified to compete at the 2015 Mr. Olympia! Fouad Abiad placed 2nd. Congratulations to both of them!
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Joe Gresko Takes Oath Of Office
Joe Gresko of Stratford, who won a special election to succeed state Rep. Terry Backer, his longtime friend and mentor who died of cancer in December, was sworn into office Feb. 3, the first day of the 2016 legislative session.
Rep. Gresko, who worked as Backer's press aide for five years, will serve the remainder of Backer's two-year term. He has been appointed to three major committees in the General Assembly: Environment, Judiciary and Energy and Technology.
"This is a challenging time for our state, and I am excited about being chosen to serve on these important committees," Gresko said. "I have big shoes to fill but hopefully with the assistance of everyone here I will be able to get the job done and live up to Terry's great legacy. Representing the people of Stratford is a true honor, and I look forward serving them."
Constituents who want to contact their new representative may call his Capitol office at (860) 240-8585 or (800) 842-8267.


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UPDATE: NOON PDT 5/9- Sen. Correa submitted SB 251 to wait presentation shortly after opening remarks to the California Senate Appropriations Committee. A very brief comment was allowed later on SB 251 from an American Friends Committee member towards the matter of selective service information used from drivers license applicants. The Committee Chair later called for the suspension of the bill towards a vote based on the issue of costs.
During the hearing, Cindy Sheehan's, Peace of the Action advocate Gregory Vickrey, issued remarks to press concerning Sacramento's "occupation" by active anti-draft constituencies. Members of CODE PINK and respective members of anti-draft coalitions, World Can't Wait for We Are Not Your Soldiers were also accounted for in support of the actions.
In a related highlight, Sen. Joe Simitian, Palo Alto, presented a fiscally conservative bill SB 29 during the hearing which advances privacy protections for driver identity and the ability to challenge red light cameras. The affirmative bill was moved for a vote.
BTC – The California Senate Appropriations committee will be holding a hearing Monday morning to discuss federal and state appropriations and funding for SB 251, a bill mandating drivers sign up for wartime drafts or selective service in the US military.
Several advocates, including the Identity Project, American Friends Committee and local ACLU, have already submitted letters opposed to this identity mandate. Organizers will be attending the National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee Conference, in the Bay Area on May 6th & 7th.
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WHO: Anti-war, Anti-draft mandate, Anti-recruitment, or Anti-identity mandate constituencies
WHAT: Call to direct action opposing the passage or funding of SB 251 at the California Senate Appropriations Committee Hearing
WHEN: Monday, May 9th 11 AM, 2011
WHERE: John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203), State Capitol Sacramento, CA
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WHY: Opposing mandatory or coercive selective service sign-ons in order to attain a California State drivers license
HOW: Write, call or contact appropriations committee members urging them to Vote NO on 251.
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Last year, Samsung launched the Galaxy Tab S3. Rumors are now surfacing about its successor — the Galaxy Tab S4. While there aren't too many details, various reports and rumored specs have helped us gather information on Samsung's latest tablet. Here's everything we know.
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At least three people were killed when a stray rocket hit their house as rival Libyan militias exchanged heavy fire around Tripoli's international airport, according to a security official.
A powerful militia from the western city of Zintan, which controls the airport, has been engaged in a week-long battle for the facility with Islamist-led militias, including fighters from Misrata, to the east of Tripoli.
The bombardment resumed early on Sunday after ceasefire efforts failed, the official said on condition of anonymity.
The fighting is said to have killed two militiamen from Misrata and a civilian who died when a stray rocket hit his house.
A mortar shell hit a Libyan Arab Airlines plane and a column of black smoke could be seen rising from inside the airport, which has been closed since Monday.
Tripoli is witnessing one of its worst periods of violence since Muammar Gaddafi was ousted in 2011. The rival militias, made up largely of former rebels, have forced a week-long closure of petrol stations and government offices.
Armed men have attacked vehicles carrying money from the central bank to local branches, forcing their closure.
In Benghazi, Libya's second-largest city, gunmen killed an army officer on Saturday while he was driving home in his car, and early on Sunday a former special forces officer was shot dead in the downtown Salmani district, according to a local security official. The UN support mission in Libya said last week that it was withdrawing its staff temporarily because of the deteriorating security situation.


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We all care about the longest operational time of our smartphones on a single charge. However, we want to have a more efficient device, which requires more power. Unfortunately, manufacturers are not able to produce a battery that would have a large capacity and was thin at the same time. This is why fast charging techniques are being developed. The leader here is Qualcomm, who has developed a new version of its solution, i.e. Quick Charge 4+.
The first version of Quick Charge appeared 4 years ago. Then, Qualcomm used a fairly simple trick and increased the charging current to 2 A. In the next version, new charging voltage levels were added, namely, in addition to the standard 5V, the Quick Charge 2.0 also supports 9V and 12V. Therefore, up to 18 W power without having to increase the charging current. Currently, most Qualcomm processors support Quick Charge 3.0. The increased voltage range (from 3.2 V to 20 V) allowed the smartphone to continue charging without warming up.
We have not yet met the Quick Charge 4 devices on the market.
Information about the new Qualcomm high-speed charging technology came out in November last year. However, the smart phones we have presented so far do not support Quick Charge 4. This solution is supposed to offer 5 hours of smartphone usage for 5 minutes of charging time. Does it sound promising? Well, this result was obtained by Qualcomm during their laboratory tests with a smartphone with 2 750 mAh battery. Quick Charge 4+ is meant to be even better. Compared to Quick Charge 3.0, the newly introduced technology will be 38% faster. On the other hand, the battery temperature during charging can be as much as 8°C lower. These differences compared to standard Quick Charge 4 are respectively 15% and 3°C better. These gains result from the application of a second charging control circuit that controls the separate charging cables. This means that the current can be routed through cooler areas of the phone. Qualcomm has also worked on security measures that will protect our smartphone even from the effects of a shorted port.
The first smartphone with Quick Charge 4+ will be the ZTE nubia Z17.
The new fast charging technique will be supported by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 chipset. However, not every smartphone with this chip will support it. Examples here are all US versions of the latest flagship Samsung Galaxy S7 and S8, which still use the Quick Charge 2.0. Here the limitations are the Exynos chips used in European models. Samsung can not fully exploit the potential of Qualcomm chipsets because they do not want to launch smartphones with different charging speeds in different markets. Also, Xiaomi Mi 6 supports older fast charging technique.
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