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The homie sent over the new single and video from Los Angeles based electronic pop duo Moxi. It’s called "Back to Me" and is all about interconnectedness, healing and finding one’s own true self. I dig the cinematic soundscapes and soaring vocals.
The Importance Of Remembering A Person’s Name
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Franklin D. Roosevelt knew that one of the simplest, most obvious and most important ways of gaining good will was by remembering names and making people feel important – yet how many of us do it?
Half the time we are introduced to a stranger, we chat a few minutes and can’t even remember his or her name by the time we say goodbye.
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Oldie But Goodie: MMA Fighter Acts Like A Douche, Gets KO’d In 20 Seconds – Leenks
How I’ve Dealt with the Shame and Embarrassment of a Failed Career – Tiny Buddha
Instagram to introduce “take a break” feature and “nudge” teens away from harmful content – The Verge
The best book on quitting smoking…"His book changed my mind set about smoking, nicotine addiction and how “hard” it was to quit. I smoked 1.5 packs a day for 40 years, tried to quit a million times, failed them all. Finished “The Book” on Thanksgiving day 2012 and quit like I turned off a switch. Just done smoking. The book cost 9 bucks, less than a pack of smokes. Why would you not read it?" – Amazon
Everything you wanted to know about seeing the Northern Lights in Chicago – Van Life Wanderer
McDonald’s McRib is coming back: Here’s when the barbecue sandwich will be available nationwide – USA Today
Here’s how to talk yourself down when you’re about to rage quit – Fast Co
5 Everyday Habits That Make You Age Faster – Medium
How to Use Twitter Like a Dating App, According to People Who Have Done It – Life Hacker
The 25 best horror movies since 2000 – AV Club
Two Philadelphia Eagles fans have sex in a men’s room bathroom stall as loads of onlookers…and cops wait outside – Reddit
Jeff Bezos Ex-Wife Mackenzie Scott donates 1.7 Billion to HBCU’s, 2.7 Billion to Charities and Covid Relief – Media Traffic
‘Translation Was So Bad’: Korean American Breaks Down The Scenes From “Squid Game” To Show How Inaccurate The English Version Is – Bored Panda
The World’s Loudest Whistle…. can bail you out if you were to get lost hiking, injured on a camping trip, or stuck in a natural disaster – Amazon
Girls who are expert at the art of using cleavage – The Chive
Toddler dies of Ebola after 3 suspicious deaths in DRC; 148 contacts identified – ARS Technica
Paige VanZant Does Oiled Up Cowgirl in a Thong for Content! – Egotastic
A Drug Cartel Sent a Severed Head to Tijuana’s New Police Chief on His First Day – VICE
Top 10 Incredible Opening Scenes in Horror Movies – Listverse
What It Feels Like to Run in the Fastest Shoes Nike’s Ever Made – Inside Hook
The Dumping Grounds
15 Underrated Websites That Are So Damn Useful
10 minute mail provides a temporary email address for you to cut and paste into those pesky “insert email” to sign up or read the rest of the story or whatever.
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Life Isn’t All Sunshine And Rainbows
Memorial for the town of Lidice in the Czech Republic, where a high-ranking Nazi officer was killed and Hitler personally ordered the murder of everybody in the town and most of the children were taken away to concentration camps.
“The only adult man from Lidice actually in Czechoslovakia who survived this atrocity was František Saidl (1887–1961), the former deputy-mayor of Lidice who had been arrested at the end of 1938 because on 19 December 1938 he accidentally killed his son Eduard Saidl. He was imprisoned for four years and had no idea about this massacre. He found out when he returned home on 23 December 1942. Upon discovering the massacre, he was so distraught he turned himself in to SS officers in the nearby town of Kladno, confessed to being from Lidice, and even said he approved of the assassination of Heydrich. Despite confirming his identity, the SS officers simply laughed at him and turned him away, and he went on to survive the war.”
One Of The Most Unsettling Ways To Die…
EMT with the FDNY here. It happens all the time – especially in Manhattan. There’s your classic hit and splatter, which sounds like what happened here. Then there’s your “space case” which is where they get wedged in between the subway car and the platform. Usually it’s because they dropped something on the tracks, jumped down, and didn’t realize how high the platform actually is. So they try to get up on the platform, and they can’t, and the train winds up coming and depending on how big the space is will either cut them in half or wedge them between the car and platform. Then, you have your “screw driver” which is the same as the space case, except the top half of the body stays in the same direction, and the waist/legs twist around and around as the subway car pulls the body down the side of the platform. This is actually a scenario that is practiced jointly between EMS and Fire at the academy – they have a fake subway track at the FDNY Academy on Randall’s Island that they mimic this with.
What’s It Like To Be Addicted To Cigarettes
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I’m 30 and started smoking when i was 12. By the time i was 15 I was a full fledged pack a day smoker. Over the years I have witnessed many people fall prey to the habit.
You start by smoking here and there, maybe you don’t inhale at first, maybe you just like to blow it out your nose or smoke it like a cigar. It’s only on certain occasions.
If you are fiddling with cigarettes, you likely have friends that are smoking, also. so you are hanging out, maybe having a few beers, and you see them smoking and decide to be social with them, and also have a cig, but alas, you have none. So you bum a few off a friend for the night. you kind of like it. it just feels good to have one with some drinks or just when you’re talking and laughing. Soon you do this every time you get together for a drink/movie/whatever. It’s not a big deal, it’s just once in a blue moon.
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Picture of the Day
CEOs of 7 major tobacco corporations testifying under oath that nicotine does NOT cause addiction. 1994
All 7 quit their jobs by 1996.
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William Campbell, CEO of Phillip Morris went on to have leadership positions with Citigroup, Visa International, then JPMorgan Chase. He currently serves as President of Sanoch Management, “a consulting and investment vehicle for financial companies, start-ups, and venture capital firms.”
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James Johnston, chairman of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. Now works as chairman of the board for Snyder’s-Lance.
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Joseph Taddeo, President of US Tobacco, is now a chairman for Jupiter Medical Center.
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Andrew Tisch, CEO of Lorillard Tobacco Company, became co-chair of its parent company Loews Corporation, after the death of his father. It is a holding company involved in hotels, oil, and insurance.
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Edward Horrigan Jr., CEO of Liggett Group Inc. retired. He died last year at 91.
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Thomas Sandefur Jr., CEO of Brown & Williamson Tobacco Co. Retired in 1995, then died in 1996 in the hospital at 56. He had aplastic anemia.
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Donald Johnston, CEO of American Tobacco Company. Left the company before it was bought out by British American Tobacco plc. at the end of 1994, but I can’t find what he did after that.