Apparently,

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doubt he was meaning a good day for whichever warmonger was in at the time


Twenty-Five Years Ago Today Was A Good Day -- Maybe

On February 24, 1993, American gangsta rap star Ice Cube released the song “It Was a Good Day.” The song was a smash hit, topping Billboard’s Hot Rap Songs list and hitting 15 on the Hot 100 list. True to its title, “It Was a Good Day” outlines a pretty good day in the life of Ice Cube. They lyrics are a bit too R-rated for this, a family-friend publication, but Wikipedia summarizes it well, so, let’s use that. But before we do, there are, let’s say, adult themes, so if you’re using Now I Know in your 4th-grade classroom, skip this one.

Okay, onward to Wikipedia:The song (and the music video) tell the story of how Ice Cube has a good day in South Central Los Angeles. Throughout the song he enjoys playing basketball, having sex, smoking marijuana (whether coincidentally or on purpose, the song is 4:20 in length), getting drunk, going to his friend Short Dog's house to watch Yo! MTV Raps and later win at craps and bones, eating fast food at 2 AM, and cruising the streets of South Central undisturbed, free from having "to use [his] AK." He even sees the lights on the Goodyear blimp, which Ice Cube says reads "Ice Cube's a Pimp". Okay, maybe that's not everyone's definition of a "good day." But it was a good day for Ice Cube. And, maybe -- it was a real day. In fact, there’s a very good chance that it happened 25 years ago today: January 20, 1992.

To be clear, at no point in the song do the lyrics explicitly mention the day, month, or even year of the events cataloged. But, intentional or not, Ice Cube left a lot of clues about the date of his good day. Add in the sheer number of people who use the Internet, and you’re going to find at least one person who spends a good amount of time piecing those clues together and posting it somewhere online. That's what happened here: a few years back, a website named Murk Avenue used its Tumblr to catalog some of those clues.

To start, Murk Avenue noted, Yo! MTV Raps debuted in August of 1988. As Ice Cube was watching that show, the good day must have occurred no earlier than then. And similarly, the song came out in February of 1993 (and was certainly recorded earlier), setting our upper-bound. Next -- and the Wikipedia synopsis misses this key clue -- Ice Cube notes that his favorite basketball team, the Los Angeles Lakers, defeated the Seattle Supersonics that day. Murk Avenue runs down all the dates on which this happened, and as it turns out, there are only a dozen during the August 1988 to February 2003 time frame. We’re well on our way to finding the good day.

After that, things get a bit dicey. (To quote Albus Dumbledore, “from this point forth, we shall be leaving the firm foundation of fact and journeying together through the murky marshes of memory into thickets of wildest guesswork.” Or, at least, we're going into conjecture and some subjective measurements.)

First, Murk Avenue points out, the song implies that the air quality in LA that day was pretty good; after all, Ice Cube was able to see the Goodyear blimp. Reasonable enough, right? By looking at smog levels, the author was able to eliminate eight of the remaining twelve dates.

Next -- and this is the biggest jump -- comes Ice Cube’s reference to an unexpected tryst with his girlfriend at the time, Kim. As the lyrics state, Kim didn’t call Ice Cube up, inviting him over; rather, she sent him a “beep.” That's a reference to a beeper, and Murk Avenue makes the leap that “beepers weren’t adopted by mobile phone companies until the 1990s.” Assuming that's true, we're down to only two dates: January 18, 1991 and January 20, 1992. As Ice Cube was filming Boyz n the Hood on the first of those dates, that left January 20, 1992, as the only remaining possibility.

Maybe.

At first, Ice Cube denied this, telling the press that "It Was a Good Day" was a "fictional song" -- "[his] interpretation of what a great day would be," but not a date specific. To muddy the waters even further, another blogger took issue with the conclusions of Murk Avenue, noting that beepers were available in the late 1980s and, well, the rest of the argument is too reliant on curse words to go into further detail. Suffice it to say that this second blogger came up with a different date: November 30, 1988.

But then, Ice Cube did something surprising. A group of advertising creatives got together in hopes of using "It Was a Good Day" as a fundraiser for A Place Called Home, a Los Angeles-area charity which helps kids with various aspects of their lives. Specifically, this advertising trio (per Adweek) set out to make January 20th "National Good Day Day," marking the festivities with an Ice Cube-themed greeting from the Goodyear blimp. And on that date in 2014, that's exactly what happened -- per a follow-up post from Murk Avenue (with pictures), the Goodyear blimp took flight from a Los Angeles-area airstrip with a simple message: "It's a Good Day." The campaign raised $25,000 for A Place Called Home via crowdsourced donations. And a special guest showed up for the festivities: Ice Cube himself. All it took for him to acknowledge that January 20th was the Good Day was for someone to turn the occasion into a good deed.

i am FEELING AND IMAGINING it buster
damn them/you straight white boys are the phantasy of all our coloured folks dreams..ha

abkwp I really enjoy beating off while looking at myself in the mirror....It's such a shame my driving instructor doesn't feel the same way...

So, Happy 25th Annual National Good Day Day.

 

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How Long Does It Take for an Avocado to Ripen?
Inbox

apparently
BUSTER is really a climacteric fruit??

is considered to be a climacteric fruit, like the banana,
meaning that the fruit matures on the tree,
and because of
the influence of ethylene gas.


Although they will mature on the tree, avocados only begin to ripen after
they have been picked.

The avocado is considered to be a climacteric fruit, like the banana,
meaning that the fruit matures on the tree, but only begins to ripen after
it has been picked. Commercial growers pick avocados when they’re hard
and green, and then allow them to ripen properly. Once picked, avocados
ripen in one to two weeks at room temperature. They’ll ripen faster if
they are stored with other fruits, such as apples and bananas, because of
the influence of ethylene gas.

 

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apparently
Person critically hurt in storm in NZ

always a major worry not too much concern re 000s killed/hurt in real major floods etc etc

Person critically hurt in storm
Multiple people have been injured after a tree crushed a car, as wild weather thumped Auckland.

 

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Is Chocolate Really Bad for My Teeth?

apparently/boring
personally
been SCEPTICAL all my life

with 'new studies' comming out every few years, one always surpassing the other as advances take place
'thee apple a day'enforced on us as the most perfect gosend in the 60s etc BS
Research suggests that toothpaste containing theobromine, an ingredient in
chocolate, could strengthen tooth enamel.
Theodent, a little-known toothpaste available at specialty stores such as
Whole Foods Market, uses a cacao plant extract instead of fluoride to fight
cavities. Chocoholics might be excited about that tasty prospect -- and the
packaging, in the style of a chocolate bar, tries to capitalize on this --
but the toothpaste is not chocolatey, and tastes like normal oral hygiene
products. Theodent’s active ingredient is theobromine (called Rennou by
its manufacturers), and its other ingredients include xylitol, glycerin,
and xanthan gum. Cocoa powder can vary in the amount of theobromine it
contains, ranging from 2 percent to 10 percent. There are usually higher
concentrations in dark chocolate than in milk chocolate.

 

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Does Europe Still Govern Any Colonies in Asia?


apparently simple cooperation works wonderfully at times
well done all

The gambling mecca of Macau was the last European colony in Asia; Portugal
returned control of it to China in 1999.

As early as 1516, Portuguese traders began stopping at the port of Macau on
their way to Japan. Portugal later established an official outpost there,
with China’s approval. Even before Macau became a colony of Portugal in
the late 19th century, the Chinese territory operated under Portuguese
administration, an arrangement that worked well for both countries. But
Portugal never wanted to stay permanently, and by the mid-1970s the country
began trying to give Macau back. By 1987, China agreed to take back
control, and on 20 December 1999, Macau was reunited with the mainland --
securing its place in history as the final European colony in Asia. The
United Kingdom had likewise returned sovereignty of Hong Kong, a nearby
neighbor of Macau, to the Chinese in 1997.

 

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apparently

OBAMA wrote 3 academic artisles while in office
think it was a pig headed act as a President of the USA to do
like speaking out about not voting for BREXIT in the UK

damn interfgerring Americans ..
using his positionm as President for pretty selfish reasons me thinks ..


Thought for the day

Why Obama just wrote articles in 3 academic journals

 

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Why In America, It's Typically Free to Go Pee
The restrooms at malls, airports, or other major public places can be a risky experience. It's a simple numbers game -- when you have that many people using a common facility, it's likely something is going to go awry. Combine that with the fact that the proper way to use a restroom is, well, something you wouldn't do anywhere else, and the odds of a gross outcome are pretty high.

For a long time, we had a partial solution -- the pay toilet. If you wanted to use a stall at a restaurant, gas station, stadium, etc., you could -- but it'd would cost you a dime. This served two purposes. First, the money itself could be used for the maintenance of the facilities, much like money collected by toll booths (in theory) goes toward bridge and road upkeep. And second, those who sold toilet locks advertised them as a great way to reduce vandalism and similar ills. Sure, there were workarounds, like that depicted in a 1930s postcard seen below. But in general, pay toilets seemed like a good way to make the public restroom work.

And yet, pay toilets are virtually unheard of in modern America. The main reason why? Four teenagers needed something to talk about.

The leading faction against pay toilets was something called CEPTIA -- the Committee to End Pay Toilets in America. The impetus, per Pacific Standard, was a trip the otherwise unimportant Gessel family had taken in 1968. The two sons, Ira and Michael, were fascinated by the pay toilets they encountered during a stop on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. While there's no reason to believe that the 10-cent barrier to entry denied them access to relieve themselves, the Gessel brothers had found the situation off-putting. They discussed the situation with two of their friends, Steve Froikin and Natalie Precker, and the four high schoolers agreed: when you've got to go, you've got to go -- and having exact change (or any money at all) shouldn't be a pre-requisite. The right to go was, they deemed, a human right.

That's a little silly -- to give an absurd example, you don't have a right to enter my house to use my toilet, no matter how big of an emergency it is. Similarly, it's hard to make the civil rights case against a pay toilet. So the quartet's argument was a struggle from the start, but it got even more complicated: they weren't taking it all that seriously in the first place. When the some of the four went off to college in 1969, their collective efforts to ban the pay toilet seemed destined to go down the drain. After all, in the pre-Internet era, were likely to lose contact.

But the shared scourge of ten-cent toilets kept them together -- they remained in touch to discuss ways to fight for the right to do one's business for free. In the summer of 1970, the four officially formed CEPTIA and held their first public meeting at a library in Dayton, Ohio. (Whether the library had pay toilets at the time has gone unreported.) The quartet brought two dozen friends with them. A movement had begun.

Their timing couldn't have been much better -- a summer earlier, this happened:

That's a California Assemblywoman named March Fong. The picture (via), taken in April of 1969, shows her taking a sledgehammer to a toilet which she positioned in front of the California statehouse. The "ten cents?" sign in the background should give you a clue about what Fong was protesting.The protest went unheeded -- the Assembly didn't care to act. But Fong's message reached the future founders of CEPTIA. Fong pointed out that while stalls had the pay locks installed, urinals rarely did, and therefore, pay toilets were (unintentionally, one hopes) discriminatory.

CEPTIA incorporated these arguments into their own, doubling down on the idea that pay toilets violated their rights somehow. The organization gained more and more members and politicians began to take notice -- and really, what kind of politician wants to be in favor of a pee fee? And in 1973, CEPTIA had their greatest victory -- they convinced the city of Chicago to outlaw pay toilets in all municipal buildings, with O'Hare airport being the most important among them.

Despite efforts by lock makers, restaurant owners, and others who benefited from the required dimes, other municipalities and states came to similar decisions. And quickly, too: by 1976, CEPTIA convinced a dozen states to ban pay toilets, and setting forth massive cultural change in the sector.

CEPTIA disbanded that year, per the New York Times. (This was most likely because its founders wanted to do something other than fight against pay toilets.) But they had set in motion an unstoppable force against toilet-gating. Pacific Standard summarizes the success: "by 1970, America had over 50,000 pay toilets. By 1980, there were almost none."

 

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apparently
your Govt wants you to piss off on a holliday uh/telling you what to do AGAIN!!!


Why the U.S. Government Really Wants Some People To Take Vacations
In the United States, generally, the law doesn't require that employers provide paid time off -- sick leave, vacation time, etc. -- to their employees. That makes the U.S. rare among other Western countries; as NPR notes, "the U.S. stands virtually alone in not mandating paid leave of any type for its workers." Putting aside the pros and cons here, suffice it to say that "let your employees take a vacation" isn't U.S. policy.

But there is one exception: the government really wants bankers to take a break.

During the Great Depression, as many as a third of U.S. banks failed, taking bankers' deposits with them. As a result, many consumers refused to trust those banks which survived; if the bank can't keep your money safe, there's no reason to use the bank. In response, the Franklin Delano Roosevelt administration created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or FDIC. Primarily, the FDIC's role was to ensure bankers' deposits -- if the bank went belly-up, the FDIC would make the banker whole. But over the years, the FDIC has taken an expanded role in protecting depositors and, as a result, in protecting banks.

Which brings us to the vacation policy. In 1995, the FDIC issued a letter to the chief executive officers of relevant banking institutions, encouraging that the CEOs make their employees take some time off every year. That letter, available here, states that "the FDIC endorses the concept of a vacation policy that allows active officers and employees to be absent from their duties for an uninterrupted period of no less than two weeks. During this time, their duties and responsibilities should be assumed by other employees." Why? Because, per that same letter, the FDIC concluded that vacations are a "basic control [which] has proven to be an effective internal safeguard in preventing fraud."

Certainly, the FDIC isn't suggesting that a few days on the beach would prevent an otherwise rotten employee from going rogue. Nor is it like that the FDIC is suggesting that a good employee, overworked, may turn into a criminal. So, this requires more explanation. Thankfully, we have the perfect person to explain: Frank Abagnale, best known as the protagonist portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio in the 2002 movie "Catch Me if You Can." Abagnale, a real person, was a fraudster for years, but has since reformed and started his own security consultancy -- and has written a few books. In 2001, for example, he wrote "The Art of the Steal: How to Protect Yourself and Your Business from Fraud, America's #1 Crime." And it its pages, you'll find the reason for the FDIC policy:[M]ake people take vacations, especially the ones who handle your money and transactions records. Every employee has to be out of the office and without control over transactions for at least one week a year. Large embezzlement schemes, as I have already pointed out, often must be maintained daily, and key figures in the scheme will resist being away. [If key employees never take a vacation,] find out why.The policy isn't law -- it's more akin to a suggestion than anything else. But it's probably good advice. It's no coincidence that the FDIC issued its above-cited letter in August of 1995. As the New York Times subsequently reported, that letter came on the heels of bank scandal in which the bank in question "secretly lost $1.1 billion from bond trading." The banker behind the losses, a man named Toshihide Iguchi, hadn't taken an extended vacation in eleven years.

 

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Is Melania Trump the First Foreign-Born U.S. First Lady?

duh!


Louisa Adams, the wife of John Quincy Adams, was the first U.S. First Lady
to be born outside the United States.

During his presidential campaign, Donald Trump frequently emphasized his
desire to deport illegal immigrants from the United States and prevent
future immigration from "terror-prone" nations. Yet, as most people know,
his wife Melania, now the First Lady, is an immigrant herself -- though a
legal one, and now a U.S. citizen. Melanija Knavs (better known as Melania
Knauss) was born in a village in Yugoslavia, now part of Slovenia, in 1970.
After pursuing a modeling career in Milan and Paris, she moved to New York
in 1996 and signed a U.S.-based modeling contract. However, Melania Trump
is not the first foreign-born wife of a U.S. president. Louisa Catherine
Johnson was born in London to an American merchant father and an English
mother in 1775. She later married John Quincy Adams, who became U.S.
president in 1825.

 

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The Man Who Gets Lots of Credit
In your wallet, you probably have a credit card or two. Or maybe four or five, if we're getting on the high side. Ten? That's a bit extreme. Twenty? Unheard of. Around fifteen hundred?

That's Walter Cavanagh.

Cavanagh, above, was a financial planner until he retired about 15 years ago. Now approaching 75 years old, he's the world record holder in the category of "largest collection of valid credit cards" (per Guinness), with 1,497 at last count, with a total line of credit exceeding $1.7 million. It's a strange hobby that started on a bet. Cavanagh explained the history to ABC News:I got started in the late 1960s. Me and a buddy in Santa Clara, Calif., made a silly bet: the guy who could collect the most credit cards by the end of the year would win dinner. I was fresh from the Peace Corps and I got 143 cards by the end of the year. My friend gathered 138. He's still a pharmacist -- like I was back then -- if only he had worked a little harder maybe he could have been the one here today.Unlike his friend, though, Cavanagh didn't stop after the year was up. Hardly, in fact. He kept applying for new cards and found, with rare exception, that his application was ultimately accepted -- although in many cases, he had to write to the issuing company to explain why he wanted credit. (The one place that rejected him was a now-defunct five-and-dime called J.J. Newberry.) And truly, any credit card will do; as the Los Angeles Times notes, Cavanagh has "oil company cards and bank cards, cards from ice cream places and shoe stores, a sterling silver card from the closed Mapes Hotel in Reno, a card from Harry's shop for big and tall men -- though Cavanagh is neither."

The 1,497 count only includes cards which are currently from existing companies, although Cavanagh admits that he doesn't try to keep tabs on that. (Per ABC News, he "doesn't count [invalid cards] in his total collection [but] assumes they are valid until he's told otherwise.") That said, he keeps them anyway. He kind of has to -- he has to fill a huge, 250-foot (75m)-long wallet, which, yes, is alsorecognized by Guinness as the "world's longest wallet."

But Cavanagh doesn't use most of the cards -- he says, on the contrary, that he only uses one, per Money magazine. And that one rarely has a balance due, either. He pays it off almost every month -- and reportedly has a near-perfect credit score.

 

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apparently maybe of interest ..


The Racist Super Hero Who Never Made It
Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, Iron Man, Thor, Daredevil, even Aquaman. All superheroes. All dudes. All white, too. If you had to name a female superhero, you'd go with Wonder Woman most likely -- maybe Supergirl or Jessica Jones, or maybe one of the X-Men (if you think of Mutants as superheroes, but let's not bother with that debate right now). Naming an African-American one can prove difficult -- one of the Green Lanterns or maybe Luke Cage?

Or maybe Black Lightning, pictured below.

If you're really tuned into the world of comics, you may have heard the name Black Lightning recently -- as recently as yesterday, there were rumors of the character getting his own TV show in the near future. Black Lightning as a pretty cool back story which may make for good television. Per the DC comic database, he "was a high school principal and Olympic-level athlete who became a vigilante to take down organized crime" using his super powers -- "the ability to generate and control lightning."

But he almost didn't exist.

Black Lightning joined the comic book universe in 1977 as part of DC's ensemble, becoming the first African-American character to headline a DC comic. DC's main competitor, Marvel, had already broken the color barrier five years earlier, though, when Luke Cage (probably best known now because of the Netflix series) became the first black protagonist of an eponymous comic in 1972.

With five years to plan, you'd think DC would get it right the first time, but they came very close to screwing it up -- big time. The first creative pass at a black character was one called the Black Bomber, and he wasn't a teacher nor could he control lightning. In fact, he wasn't even black, at least not always. According to the book "Black Superheroes, Milestone Comics, and Their Fans," the Black Bomber "was actually a bigoted white Vietnam veteran who had undergone war-time experiments that would cause him to turn into a black hero during times of stress." (The available sources do not describe his super powers.) And it got worse. According to Tony Isabella, one of the creators of Luke Cage, the Bomber didn't transform quietly (via): In each of the two completed Black Bomber scripts, the white bigot risks his own life to save another person whom he can’t see clearly (in one case, a baby in a stroller) and then reacts in racial slur disgust when he discovers that he risked his life to save a black person. He wasn’t aware that he had two identities, but each identity had a girlfriend and the ladies were aware of the change. To add final insult, the Bomber’s costume was little more than a glorified basketball uniform.The scripts, though, never made it into comic book form. The reason Isabella knows about the above is because DC knew that there was something amiss about the character and brought Isabella in to fix it. Isabella, to his immense credit, convinced DC to scrap the racist race-changer and go with his idea for a lightning-controlling, always-black teacher instead.

 

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Does Any Country Give Its Citizens a Basic Universal Income?


had heard of it and good on them fopr trying it huh

Finland is giving 2,000 unemployed citizens 560 euros ($600 USD) a month to
explore the idea of a universal income.

Much has been discussed about universal health care, in which the
government takes care of every resident’s medical needs. Global debates
about welfare and benefits are constantly in the news. And in the midst of
all this, Finland is embarking on a radical experiment in social welfare.
As of January 2017, the country is giving 2,000 of its unemployed citizens
a guaranteed income of 560 euros ($600 USD) a month, whether they find work
or not. The participants, ranging in age from 35 to 58, were randomly
selected, but had to be receiving unemployment benefits or an income
subsidy. The two-year “universal income” experiment may even save the
Finnish government money in the long run. Officials have pointed out that
the current Finnish welfare system discourages jobless Finns from taking
even part-time jobs, because they could lose their unemployment benefits by
doing so.

 

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Has Niagara Falls Ever Stopped Flowing?


apparently


In 1969, engineers diverted the water flowing over the US portion of
Niagara Falls in an effort to prevent erosion.

The Niagara River sends 6 million cubic feet (169,901 cubic m) of water
over Niagara Falls every minute. However, in 1969, the torrent of the
American Falls was reduced to a mere trickle. For five months, engineers
diverted the water to Horseshoe Falls on the Canadian side while they
removed loose rock at the base and shored up other areas, in an attempt to
delay the onset of erosion. At the end of the project, the engineers blew
up their temporary 600-foot-tall (183 m) dam and the thunderous wall of
water resumed its rush over the falls

 

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Has Niagara Falls Ever Stopped Flowing?


apparently


In 1969, engineers diverted the water flowing over the US portion of
Niagara Falls in an effort to prevent erosion.

The Niagara River sends 6 million cubic feet (169,901 cubic m) of water
over Niagara Falls every minute. However, in 1969, the torrent of the
American Falls was reduced to a mere trickle. For five months, engineers
diverted the water to Horseshoe Falls on the Canadian side while they
removed loose rock at the base and shored up other areas, in an attempt to
delay the onset of erosion. At the end of the project, the engineers blew
up their temporary 600-foot-tall (183 m) dam and the thunderous wall of
water resumed its rush over the falls

Much like the Snowy Mountain River Scheme just after the 2nd world war for Hydro. Apparently one of the largest engineering projects of the time. Back when Australia had to rely on itself......now ...

We were also one of the first nations into space......till Menzies said it was all pie in the sky ..Then we sold all our technology to India.

Go figure rb http://theconversation.com/australias-part-in-50-years-of-space-exploration-with-nasa-24530

And the US think they did it all by themselves........... As far as Rednecks are concerned anyway.

Our technology matches and betters theirs any day. Not that the every day US citizen would know.

 

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apparently WONT be watching it huh duh
to American for me, and how many jhave now been programmed into watching tyhe ads instead huh??? ha

a good weekend, and I hope the team you root for wins. -- Dan
The Super Bowl Commercial Designed To Be Missed
This Sunday, millions of people around the world will tune in to watch the New England Patriots and Atlanta Falcons play a game of football. Some of those watching will be interested in Tom Brady and Matt Ryan; many others will have no idea what that means. That latter group is near the TV because the Super Bowl is a great excuse for a party -- and, in a weird cultural twist, they're there to watch the TV commercials.

Over the past few decades, there’s been an arms races of sorts, with brands trying to outcompete one another for the most memorable Super Bowl ad. This has been great for the game’s broadcaster, as the demand for a 30-second commercial spot is through the roof; in 2009, for example, such an ad fetched NBC approximately $2.5 million. And yet that didn’t stop advertisers from coming -- in fact, many were very pleased to point out how much ad space they bought. Beer giant Anheuser-Busch (“A-B”), for example, had four minutes and 30 seconds of commercial time during that Super Bowl. That sounds like a large amount of space (and money) to advertise A-B’s most recognizable product, Budweiser, but it should be no surprise to anyone who regularly watches the game or cares about its ads. And certainly, A-B’s competitors can be included in that group.

Playing Pepsi to Bud’s Coke is Miller, a line of beers which also advertises during the Super Bowl but hardly as notably as A-B. Or, in other words, Miller doesn’t typically buy four minutes and thirty seconds of airtime during the game. To most, this would seem like a disadvantage. But in 2009, Miller decided to turn the tables on the math. Instead of buying a 30-second ad, they tried to buy a 1-second ad. You can watch it here, but if you don’t want to click, the animated gif below should do the job. Just imagine the guy is saying “HIGH LIFE” -- the name of Miller’s “premium” brand -- in a forceful, almost-yelling tone.

If you missed it on-air during the 2009 Super Bowl, you can be forgiven -- and not just because it was a one-second ad, and you may have been looking elsewhere during that fleeting moment. As AdAge reported, “the ads didn't even run in many large markets -- including New York, Chicago and Los Angeles -- because NBC directed its owned and operated stations not to run them.” NBC apparently saw the ads as an effort to disparage those advertisers (such as A-B) who were willing to pay millions of dollars for longer, standard-sized ads, which was likely an accurate take by the broadcaster. (If you recall, just a few months earlier, the American economy slipped into the worst recession in a generation; it’s likely that Miller wasn’t comfortable spending a ton of advertising when its consumers were suffering economically.)

The ads ran, therefore, in only a limited number of markets and, again, only for one second. But that was plenty for Miller. The buzz around the ad sparked conversations online, and, again per AdAge, Miller saw results: "sales of High Life popped 8.6% during the week after the Super Bowl vs. the same period a year earlier."


cheers v
yes i was aware of that Snowy project thanks damn good
think you need to send your current Govt into space,as well ha

btw
we have a HUKA FALLS that has billions of tons of water rushing down a ravine
infamous for a dominatrix throwing a poor ole pommie Cricket umpire down it in a barrell, he never survived of course, was dead when placed in the barrella actually

BAD domo Renee?

We were also one of the first nations into space......till Menzies said it was all pie in the sky ..Then we sold all our technology to India

 

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cool huh
since 22004
yes i recall now i did see it on MYTHBUSTERS

apparently

UPS drivers don’t turn left. It’s a strategic choice, and it saves 10 million gallons of gas a year.

https://qz.com/895691/ups-drivers-dont-turn-left-and-it-saves-them-10-million-gallons-of-gas-a-year/

 

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Does Everyone Get Headaches Now and Then?


apparently
all frequenters of LPSG always do
m/f no difference?

Approximately 5 to 10 percent of people have never experienced a headache.

Most people get headaches from time to time, but not everyone is familiar
with the many different types of headaches that can occur. Ninety percent
of headaches are considered primary, including tension headaches,
migraines, and cluster headaches. Secondary headaches are triggered by an
underlying problem, such as sinusitis. Traction headaches or inflammatory
headaches are caused by a medical condition. And it may surprise you to
learn that not everyone gets headaches. In fact, the National Institute of
Neurological Disorders and Stroke says that about 10 percent of all men and
5 percent of women have never experienced a headache.

 

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like' naughty ha


Hope you're having a good week! -- Dan
The Pink Light That Wipes Out Teenagers
Perhaps unfairly, teenagers are often blamed for all sorts of bad things. They're easy targets, often showing the poor judgment associated with immaturity. If you believe movies about the 1980s, if you have too many teens hanging around, it'll result in reckless driving, shoplifting, littering, graffiti and other vandalism -- and potentially worse. In reality, teens aren't nearly so bad -- but at the same time, loiterers of any time aren't good for business. They block entrances, take up tables, make noise and rarely spend any money. So, let's grant for a second that loiterers are a problem worth combatting; and let's further grant that teens -- who, homework aside, often have much more time than they do money -- tend to loiter more than others.

So, what do you do? If you're in a certain part of England, maybe you tried one of these:

That contraption is simply a pink light in a grating. And apparently, it can help keep the mallrats away.

At first, it's likely that these communities chose the power of pink because the color is believed to have a calming effect on those who are exposed to it. (If you've read Now I Know More, you know that some prisons paint walls pink for this very reason.) But in this case, the lights have a different purpose. As the BBC explains, the pink lights "also show up spots on the skin." Or, in other words, if you have acne, pink light makes it look much, much worse.

And that can be used to the advantage of the shopkeepers. For example, a local official from Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, told the Evening Standard that the town leaders "are trying to embarrass young people out of the area," a tactic they believe in because "the pink is not seen as particularly macho among young men and apparently it highlights acne and blemishes in the skin." And even though most teens have some sort of acne or similar, you can imagine the social discomfort that ensues when all those imperfections are highlighted by the cotton-candy colored lights above.

It's hard to say how effective the embarrassment lights are, but they're rather inexpensive, easy to install, and hey, pink-lit streets are pretty cool anyway. As a result, a few other British localities have also taken to installing pink bulbs in high traffic areas.

 

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The Valentine's Cards You Don't Want to Get
Today is February 14th -- Valentine's Day. If that's caught you by surprise and now you're in a panic to buy something for a certain someone, the good news is that you can probably find a greeting card at the last minute. According to CNN, approximately 150 million Valentine's Day cards are exchanged each year so, odds are, you aren't alone. There are lots of people dropping $4.95 to tell someone how they really feel about someone else -- well, if they like them, at least.

But Valentine's Day wasn't always limited to sharing good feelings. Once upon a time, there was a competing tradition -- one that wasn't very kind.

Pictured above, via Collectors Weekly, is an example of one such greeting. It's called a "vinegar valentine" because it isn't very sweet, to say the least. It should be immediately apparent that if you sent that card to a potential love interest, he'd probably not react so kindly. The card above is dripping with sarcasm and malevolent mirth, not love and affection. It's designed to tell a beau that his love is unrequited and will remain so; and why.

These vinegar valentines were common for about a century, from 1840 until about 1940 -- and they were quite popular, too. Smithsonian states that "by the mid-19th century, vinegar valentines represented about half of all valentine sales in the U.S." They were often made by the same companies that made the nice greeting cards and available for purchase at the same place you'd get your normal Valentine's. In other words, the tradition of sending one was socially acceptable. Slate explains: Vinegar valentines were a socially sanctioned chance to criticize, reject, and insult. They were often sent without a signature, enabling the sender to speak without fear. These cards were sent not just to significant others, friends, and family but to a larger social circle. People might post a vinegar card to a store clerk, a teacher, or a neighbor.But at times, these mean missives went beyond playground-level insults. Atlas Obscura notes that, around the turn of the 19th century, vinegar valentines were used as a way to anonymously shame supporters of women's suffrage, as seen below. The key takeaway was simple: if a woman wanted a vote, she wouldn't be getting a real valentine.

It's unclear why or exactly when the tradition of not-so-good-natured hate mail disappeared. We're probably better off without them.

 

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Do Most European Countries Drive on the Right-Hand Side of the Road?

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In just one day in 1967, Sweden switched from driving on the left-hand side
of the road to driving on the right.
Although most of the world now drives on the right-hand side of the road,
there are still dozens of countries and territories that drive on the left,
primarily in Asia, Africa, Oceania, and the West Indies. In Europe, the
only major holdouts are the United Kingdom, Ireland, Malta, and Cyprus,
which continue to drive on the left. Later this year, Sweden will celebrate
the 50th anniversary of making the switch, as it joined neighbors Norway
and Finland in driving on the right-hand side in 1967. The transition went
fairly smoothly on Högertrafikomläggningen, or "H-Day." Most automobiles
already on the road at the time were American-made vehicles with the
steering wheel on the left.