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10 Rules for Fledgling Santas - BrooWaha Nation - 0 views

  • 1. Play the part 100%
  • 2. Learn your ho’s
  • 3. Control your beard
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  • 4. Don’t skimp on the costume
  • 5. Don’t get hammered
  • 6. No lap dances
  • If you believe you’re really Santa then everyone else will buy into it.
  • 8. Bring a towel
  • 9. Have a Mrs. Claus to help you
  • 10. Go tough love when necessary
  • A lot of teenagers will try to insult you to make themselves look cool in front of their friends.
  • 7. Do your research
  • Wearing the costume is a privilege, so don’t do anything that might spoil the big man’s image – like smoke, swear, spit, hit on women or break loud wind.
  • A weak “ho, ho, ho!” greeting is the quickest way to be labeled a panty-waist Santa Claus
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AlterNet: Blogs: PEEK: Santa Delivers 37,000+ Copies of Constitution to Bush - 0 views

  • Santa Delivers 37,000+ Copies of Constitution to Bush
  • Santa Claus (in the person of noted constitutional lawyer Bill Goodman) drove his sleigh to the White House to deliver thousands of copies of the U.S. Constitution to President Bush.
  • Americans from all over the country - more than 37,000 of them - asked that a copy of the Constitution be delivered to the President in their name and cordially requested that he make time in his busy schedule to read it.
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  • "While I was going over the list of who's been naughty and nice," Mr. Claus said, as he prepared for his visit to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, "I heard from many people who feel the President hasn't been doing a very good job of upholding his oath to 'preserve, protect and defend' the Constitution."
  • Claus stepped in to bring messages from Americans who felt the President might need a refresher course in the Constitution.
  • Citizens want to remind President Bush that the Constitution forbids torture and spying on Americans without a warrant, requires that prisoners get a fair hearing of the charges against them before a real court and makes the government's treaty obligations, such the Geneva Conventions, the law of the land.
  • "These Constitutions will make great holiday reading," Claus continued. "I want to be sure that the President has plenty of time to look at them before he decides on his New Year's resolutions."
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Christmas is a Good Time to Catch a Cheating Mate - 0 views

  • Christmas is a Good Time to Catch a Cheating Mate
  • People don't usually associate Christmas with infidelity and extramarital affairs. But according to infidelity expert Ruth Houston, the Christmas season is a good time to catch a cheating mate.
  • "Christmas offers two prime opportunities to confirm that your spouse or significant other is cheating on you, or to get tangible evidence of an existing extramarital affair."
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  • Houston advises clients who suspect a workplace affair to attend the company Christmas party with their spouse or significant other.
  • Observing their partner in a social setting with opposite sex co-workers will reveal the presence r absence of workplace infidelity."
  • Houston says that if the suspected cheater is romantically involved with someone at work, their body language and their behavior around each other will give them away.
  • a cheating spouse or significant other can also be exposed by the gifts he or she gives or receives.
  • A gift purchased for the Other Woman or the Other Man will leave a paper trail, regardless of whether it's paid for with cash, check or credit card
  • If you've already found other signs of infidelity during the year, the telltale signs you find during the Christmas season could provide the final proof you need to confirm that your spouse or significant other is having an affair.
  • A hidden gift you discover before Christmas that disappears but wasn't given to you, receipts for 2 identical gifts, expensive gift items belonging to your partner that suddenly appear after Christmas that weren't purchased by you
  • The Office Christmas Party
  • Christmas Gifts
  • The Final Proof of Infidelity
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Chrsitmas trees banned in Chinese city | WORLD | NEWS | tvnz.co.nz - 0 views

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  • China city bans Christmas trees
  • A Chinese city has beaten the Grinch at his own game, banning Christmas trees from shopping malls, restaurants and other public places because they pose a fire hazard, a newspaper reported.
  • Chen Ying, deputy mayor of Zhuhai, a city of 1.3 million people in southern China, said restaurants, malls, grocery stores and other entertainment venues had to remove trees and other "flammable decorations" immediately.
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  • "Those that fail to rectify the situation will be subject to legal measures like suspension or closure,"
  • The crackdown on Christmas trees was part of a three-month campaign to boost fire-prevention standards that started this week in Zhuhai, directly across from the Chinese gambling haven of Macau.
  • The Zhuhai ban came the same day that President Hu Jintao "reached out" to religious believers in China where commercial Christmas trappings have become increasingly ostentatious in recent years.
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BBC NEWS | Health | Single brain cell's power shown - 0 views

  • Single brain cell's power shown
  • There could be enough computing ability in just one brain cell to allow humans and animals to feel, a study suggests.
  • The brain has 100 billion neurons but scientists had thought they needed to join forces in larger networks to produce thoughts and sensations.
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  • The Dutch and German study, published in Nature, found that stimulating just one rat neuron could deliver the sensation of touch.
  • Dr Douglas Armstrong
  • in some creatures with simpler nervous systems, such as flies, a single neuron can play a more significant role.
  • Dr Douglas Armstrong, the deputy director of the Edinburgh Centre for Bioinformatics
  • "The generally accepted model was that networks or arrays make decisions and that the influence of a single neuron is smaller - but this work and other recent studies support a more important role for the individual neuron.
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Medicare project pays doctors for saving money - USATODAY.com - 0 views

  • Medicare project pays doctors for saving money
  • Doctors participating in a new Medicare experiment appear to have done the impossible — delivering better care and saving money at the same time.
  • Using electronic health records and other innovations, physicians at 10 large group practices helped thousands of patients with chronic conditions such as diabetes take better care of themselves and, for some, avoid costly emergency-room visits and hospitalizations.
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  • Their success is part of a four-year pilot program that tests whether an approach called "pay for performance" can slow the growth of the cash-hungry Medicare program while providing elderly and disabled patients with comprehensive, coordinated care they currently don't get.
  • As part of the pilot project, which ends in March 2009, physician practices get an annual bonus if they save at least 2% over what Medicare would have spent on patients outside the project.
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San Jose Mercury News - Microsoft OKs open-source license - 0 views

  • Microsoft OKs open-source license
  • Microsoft, whose software powers about 95 percent of the world's personal computers, reached an agreement on licensing terms that will allow open-source products to connect to the Windows operating system.
  • Microsoft will license proprietary information on how Windows shares files and printers with the non-profit Protocol Freedom Information Foundation, which will make the data available to open-source developers working on a file and printing system called Samba.
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  • The agreement will "allow Samba to create, use and distribute implementations of all the protocols" to allow so- called workgroup servers to connect with Windows, Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft said in a statement Thursday.
  • The company in October gave in to European Union demands to license the protocol data.
  • Samba said in a statement that the agreement involves a one-time fee of 10,000 euros ($14,350). The protocol data will be held "in confidence" by Samba. The agreement allows source code to be published "without further restrictions," Samba said.
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Hollow Earth May Be the Weirdest Theory of the World at OddOrama - 0 views

  • Hollow Earth May Be the Weirdest Theory of the World
  • So wait, what? The Earth … hollow? Yes, it’s an insane theory, and yes it is as fictitious as the fairy tales that gave rise to it, yet at the same time it can’t be directly disproved. Why? Because we have never actually dug more than about 15 miles below the surface of the Earth, so there is no 100% direct evidence the Earth is solid through an through! Does this mean Hollow Earth Theories could hold true? Sure, and Santa might actually drop by 6 billion houses a year on a sled pulled by a glorified pack of deer.
  • some people believe them even today.
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  • One self-identified scientist and explorer is currently trying to raise two million dollars to mount a mission where no man has ever gone before: through a polar ice cap and into a supposed ‘Inner Earth’ with its own oceans, continents and of course its own sun.
  • Early theorists held that there were a series of concentric spheres within the Earth
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w00t crowned word of year by U.S. dictionary | Oddly Enough | Reuters - 0 views

  • "w00t" crowned word of year by U.S. dictionary
  • "w00t," an expression of joy coined by online gamers, was crowned word of the year on Tuesday by the publisher of a leading U.S. dictionary.
  • Massachusetts-based Merriam-Webster Inc. said "w00t" -- typically spelled with two zeros -- reflects a new direction in the American language led by a generation raised on video games and cell phone text-messaging.
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  • It's like saying "yay," the dictionary said.
  • "It could be after a triumph or for no reason at all,"
  • Visitors to Merriam-Webster's Web site were invited to vote for one of 20 words and phrases culled from the most frequently looked-up words on the site and submitted by readers.
  • Runner-up was "facebook" as a new verb meaning to add someone to a list of friends on the Web site Facebook.com or to search for people on the social networking site.
  • Merriam-Webster President John Morse said "w00t" reflected the growing use of numeric keyboards to type words.
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SKoreans clone cats that glow in the dark: officials - 0 views

  • SKoreans clone cats that glow in the dark: officials
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Attackers chop off man's 'magic' leg - 0 views

  • Attackers chop off man's 'magic' leg
  • Two men attacked an 80-year-old, self-proclaimed holy man in southern India and chopped off his right leg, apparently believing it had magical powers, police said Thursday.
  • Yanadi Kondaiah, who claimed that those who touched his leg would be cured of illness or have wishes granted, was hospitalized in serious condition after the attack Tuesday, said R. Ravindranath Reddy, a senior police officer.
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  • "We are looking for the miscreants as well as the leg,"
  • remote area 340 miles south of Hyderabad, the capital of Andhra Pradesh state.
  • "This seems to be a case of superstition. The two people might have taken away the leg hoping to benefit from its magical powers,"
  • Kondaiah told police that two men offered him a drink as thanks for previously helping them with his magical touch.
  • After he passed out drunk, the men chopped off the leg below the knee with a sickle and left him to die
  • passing villagers found him and took him to a hospital.
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Cats That Glow - 0 views

  • SKorean Scientists Clone Cats That Glow
  • South Korean scientists have cloned cats that glow red when exposed to ultraviolet rays, an achievement that could help develop cures for human genetic diseases, the Science and Technology Ministry said.
  • Turkish Angora cats
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  • a gene that produces a red fluorescent protein that makes them glow in dark.
  • One died at birth, but the two others survived
  • Scientists from Gyeongsang National University and Sunchon National University took skin cells from a cat and inserted the fluorescent gene into them before transplanting the genetically modified cells into eggs.
  • The development means other genes can also be inserted in the course of cloning, pa >
  • paving the way for producing lab cats with genetic diseases
  • including those of humans, to help develop new treatments,
  • "Cats have similar genes to those of humans," said veterinary professor Kong Il-keun of Gyeongsang National University.
  • "People with genetic disorders usually have to receive treatment throughout their lives that is very hard on them," Kato said.
  • "If these results can help to make their lives easier, then I think it's a wonderful thing."
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Romney: There should be no religious test for presidency - USATODAY.com - 0 views

  • Romney: There should be no religious test for presidency
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      -is he doing this cause people generally have a negative view of mormonism? you preach religious tolerence for your self.
  • Republican Mitt Romney's much-anticipated speech Thursday on the role of faith in the USA echoed the message made by another Massachusetts politician seeking the White House nearly 50 years ago: Religious tolerance, not church membership, is what should matter to voters.
  • Romney also defended his Mormon faith, which some Christians view as heretical.
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  • The former Massachusetts governor vowed to serve "no one religion, no one group, no one cause and no one interest"
  • "I believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God and the savior of mankind," Romney said. "My church's beliefs about Christ may not all be the same as those of other faiths. … These are not bases for criticism, but rather a test of our tolerance."
  • In Iowa, which holds the opening presidential contest on Jan. 3, religious conservatives make up about 40% of the GOP electorate.
  • Thursday's speech by Romney recalled John F. Kennedy's 1960 address to Baptist ministers in Houston that confronted concerns about his Roman Catholic faith.
  • Critics "would prefer it if I would simply distance myself from my religion … or disavow one or another of its precepts," Romney said
  • "I believe in my Mormon faith, and I endeavor to live by it."
  • The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life found in an August poll that one in four people would be less likely to vote for a Mormon presidential candidate.
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      -does religion play a role in who you would vote for?
  • Romney said faith by itself should not be the reason to elect or reject someone for public office.
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A High Price for Healthy Food - Well - Tara Parker-Pope - Health - New York Times Blog - 0 views

  • A High Price for Healthy Food
  • Healthy eating really does cost more.
  • University of Washington researchers
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  • compared the prices of 370 foods sold at supermarkets in the Seattle area.
  • Calorie for calorie, junk foods not only cost less than fruits and vegetables, but junk food prices also are less likely to rise as a result of inflation.
  • The findings, reported in the current issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association, may help explain why the highest rates of obesity are seen among people in lower-income groups.
  • Although fruits and vegetables are rich in nutrients, they also contain relatively few calories.
  • Foods with high energy density, meaning they pack the most calories per gram, included candy, pastries, baked goods and snacks.
  • Energy-dense munchies cost on average $1.76 per 1,000 calories, compared with $18.16 per 1,000 calories for low-energy but nutritious foods.
  • low-calorie foods were more likely to increase in price, surging 19.5 percent over the two-year study period.
  • High-calorie foods remained a relative bargain, dropping in price by 1.8 percent.
  • a 2,000-calorie diet would cost just $3.52 a day if it consisted of junk food, compared with $36.32 a day for a diet of low-energy dense foods.
  • The average American spends about $7 a day on food, although low-income people spend about $4
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Japan Scientists Develop Fearless Mice - 0 views

  • Japan Scientists Develop Fearless Mice
  • Japanese scientists say they've used genetic engineering to create mice that show no fear of felines, a development that may shed new light on mammal behavior and the nature of fear itself.
  • Scientists at Tokyo University say they were able to successfully switch off a mouse's instinct to cower at the smell or presence of cats - showing that fear is genetically hardwired and not learned through experience, as commonly believed.
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  • "Mice are naturally terrified of cats, and usually panic or flee at the smell of one. But mice with certain nasal cells removed through genetic engineering didn't display any fear," said research team leader Ko Kobayakawa.
  • In his experiment, the genetically altered mice approached cats, even snuggled up to them and played with them.
  • help researchers shed further light on how the brain processes information about the outside world.
  • how to control it.
  • "If we follow the pathway of related signals in the brain, I think we could discover what kind of networks in the brain are important for controlling fear."
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Banning samurai swords | Oddly Enough | Reuters - 0 views

  • Banning samurai swords
  • The government said Wednesday it would ban the sale of samurai swords because the weapons had been used in a number of serious, high-profile attacks.
  • The Home Office said the swords would be added to the Offensive Weapons Order from April next year, meaning they could not be imported, sold or hired.
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  • However collectors of genuine Japanese swords and those used by martial arts enthusiasts would be exempt from the ban.
  • "In the wrong hands, samurai swords are dangerous weapons,"
  • Home Office Minister Vernon Coaker said.
  • "We recognize it is the cheap, easily available samurai swords which are being used in crime and not the genuine more expensive samurai swords which are of interest to collectors and martial arts enthusiasts."
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