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Beware the cruise..sounds like they're putting mc rapey into their drinks..this guy was so lucky..check how he spent his Thanksgiving.
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Cruise ship passenger rescued from ocean isn't sure how he went overboard, he tells ABC
An Alabama man who rescuers pulled from the Gulf of Mexico hours after he was reported missing from a cruise ship doesn't know how he wound up in the water, he told ABC.
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Opinion. They should do like LA, Transitional homes that prove bed space with AC/heat, lock and services.
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There are not enough beds; this will like opening Pandora's box especially by putting this on the police, not to mention taking away a persons freedom. There's no law against having a mental health problem.
19.86% of adults are experiencing a mental illness. Equivalent to nearly 50 million Americans. 4.91% are experiencing a severe mental illness. The state prevalence of adult mental illness ranges from 16.37% in New Jersey to 26.86% in Utah.
Adult Data 2022 | Mental Health America
By the way Utah is the biggest consumer of online porn but they'll throw your kids lunch away if your school lunch bill isn't up to date..take it right out of their hands and into the trash. No wonder they have the highest incidence of MH..then the Mormons.
A hard look at New York's controversial new approach to the homeless | CNN Politics
New York City Mayor Eric Adams is pushing to enforce a state law that allows first responders to involuntarily commit people experiencing a mental health crisis. Advocates for the homeless oppose this. And mental health professionals are questioning it.
There are not enough beds; this will like opening Pandora's box especially by putting this on the police, not to mention taking away a persons freedom. There's no law against having a mental health problem.
19.86% of adults are experiencing a mental illness. Equivalent to nearly 50 million Americans. 4.91% are experiencing a severe mental illness. The state prevalence of adult mental illness ranges from 16.37% in New Jersey to 26.86% in Utah.
Adult Data 2022 | Mental Health America
By the way Utah is the biggest consumer of online porn but they'll throw your kids lunch away if your school lunch bill isn't up to date..take it right out of their hands and into the trash. No wonder they have the highest incidence of MH..then the Mormons.
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DIY-HP-LED
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LIV life.
DIY-HP-LED
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Here is a treatment that could see rapid deployment, if it is further proved useful. It would seem to me it would work with kids and not so much with adults and perhaps not with all kids. It is a possible treatment where few exist and will be of intense interest to the support and funding community of families with autistic children, the medical community too and the low
risk experiments will be repeated, and more data gathered
risk experiments will be repeated, and more data gathered
Autism Breakthrough: New Treatment Significantly Improves Social Skills and Brain Function
The treatment caused neurological changes, including a decrease in inflammation and an increase in functionality, according to the researchers. A recent Tel Aviv University study found that pressure chamber therapy greatly improved social skills and the condition of the autistic brain. The resear
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DoubleAtotheRON
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Fuel report!.. $2.57 a gallon in Oklahoma..... couldn't find anywhere else to dump this nugget of info.
printer
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Protest-Hit Iran Abolishes Morality Police
Iran has scrapped its morality police after more than two months of protests triggered by the arrest of Mahsa Amini for allegedly violating the country's strict female dress code, local media said Sunday.
Women-led protests, labelled "riots" by the authorities, have swept Iran since the 22-year-old Iranian of Kurdish origin died in custody on September 16, three days after her arrest by the morality police in Tehran.
Demonstrators have burned their mandatory hijab head coverings and shouted anti-government slogans, and since Amini's death, a growing number of women have failed to wear the hijab, particularly in parts of Tehran.
"Morality police have nothing to do with the judiciary and have been abolished", Attorney General Mohammad Jafar Montazeri was quoted as saying by the ISNA news agency.
His comment came at a religious conference where he responded to a participant who asked "why the morality police were being shut down", the report said.
Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution that overthrew Iran's US-backed monarchy, there has been some kind of official monitoring of the strict dress code for both men and women. But under hardline president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the morality police -- known formally as the Gasht-e Ershad or "Guidance Patrol" -- was established to "spread the culture of modesty and hijab". The units were set up by Iran's Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution, which is today headed by President Ebrahim Raisi. They began their patrols in 2006 to enforce the dress code which also requires women to wear long clothes and forbids shorts, ripped jeans and other clothes deemed immodest.
The announcement of the units' abolition came a day after Montazeri said "both parliament and the judiciary are working" on the issue of whether the law requiring women to cover their heads needs to be changed.
Raisi said in televised comments Saturday that Iran's republican and Islamic foundations were constitutionally entrenched "but there are methods of implementing the constitution that can be flexible".
The hijab became mandatory in 1983. Morality police officers initially issued warnings before starting to crack down and arrest women 15 years ago.
The squads were usually made up of men in green uniforms and women clad in black chadors, garments that cover their heads and upper bodies.
The role of the units evolved, but has always been controversial even among candidates running for the presidency.
Clothing norms gradually changed, especially under former moderate president Hassan Rouhani, when it became commonplace to see women in tight jeans with loose, colourful headscarves. But in July this year his successor, the ultra-conservative Raisi, called for the mobilisation of "all state institutions to enforce the headscarf law". Raisi at the time charged that "the enemies of Iran and Islam have targeted the cultural and religious values of society by spreading corruption".
Iran's regional rival Saudi Arabia also employed morality police to enforce female dress codes and other rules of behaviour. Since 2016 the force there has been sidelined in a push by the Sunni Muslim kingdom to shake off its austere image.
In September, the Union of Islamic Iran People Party, the country's main reformist party, called for the hijab law to be rescinded. The party, created by relatives of former reformist president Mohammad Khatami, demands authorities "prepare the legal elements paving the way for the cancellation of the mandatory hijab law". As recently as Saturday it also called for the Islamic republic to "officially announce the end of the activities of the morality police" and "allow peaceful demonstrations".
Iran accuses its enemy the United States and its allies, including Britain and Israel, and Kurdish groups based outside the country, of fomenting the street protests. More than 300 people have been killed in the unrest, including dozens of security force members, an Iranian general said on Monday. Oslo-based non-government organisation Iran Human Rights on Tuesday said at least 448 people had been "killed by security forces in the ongoing nationwide protests".
Thousands of people have been arrested, including prominent Iranian actors and footballers.
Among them was the actor Hengameh Ghaziani, detained last month. She had published on Instagram a video of herself removing her head covering. She was later freed on bail, Iranian news agencies reported.
Iran has scrapped its morality police after more than two months of protests triggered by the arrest of Mahsa Amini for allegedly violating the country's strict female dress code, local media said Sunday.
Women-led protests, labelled "riots" by the authorities, have swept Iran since the 22-year-old Iranian of Kurdish origin died in custody on September 16, three days after her arrest by the morality police in Tehran.
Demonstrators have burned their mandatory hijab head coverings and shouted anti-government slogans, and since Amini's death, a growing number of women have failed to wear the hijab, particularly in parts of Tehran.
"Morality police have nothing to do with the judiciary and have been abolished", Attorney General Mohammad Jafar Montazeri was quoted as saying by the ISNA news agency.
His comment came at a religious conference where he responded to a participant who asked "why the morality police were being shut down", the report said.
Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution that overthrew Iran's US-backed monarchy, there has been some kind of official monitoring of the strict dress code for both men and women. But under hardline president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the morality police -- known formally as the Gasht-e Ershad or "Guidance Patrol" -- was established to "spread the culture of modesty and hijab". The units were set up by Iran's Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution, which is today headed by President Ebrahim Raisi. They began their patrols in 2006 to enforce the dress code which also requires women to wear long clothes and forbids shorts, ripped jeans and other clothes deemed immodest.
The announcement of the units' abolition came a day after Montazeri said "both parliament and the judiciary are working" on the issue of whether the law requiring women to cover their heads needs to be changed.
Raisi said in televised comments Saturday that Iran's republican and Islamic foundations were constitutionally entrenched "but there are methods of implementing the constitution that can be flexible".
The hijab became mandatory in 1983. Morality police officers initially issued warnings before starting to crack down and arrest women 15 years ago.
The squads were usually made up of men in green uniforms and women clad in black chadors, garments that cover their heads and upper bodies.
The role of the units evolved, but has always been controversial even among candidates running for the presidency.
Clothing norms gradually changed, especially under former moderate president Hassan Rouhani, when it became commonplace to see women in tight jeans with loose, colourful headscarves. But in July this year his successor, the ultra-conservative Raisi, called for the mobilisation of "all state institutions to enforce the headscarf law". Raisi at the time charged that "the enemies of Iran and Islam have targeted the cultural and religious values of society by spreading corruption".
Iran's regional rival Saudi Arabia also employed morality police to enforce female dress codes and other rules of behaviour. Since 2016 the force there has been sidelined in a push by the Sunni Muslim kingdom to shake off its austere image.
In September, the Union of Islamic Iran People Party, the country's main reformist party, called for the hijab law to be rescinded. The party, created by relatives of former reformist president Mohammad Khatami, demands authorities "prepare the legal elements paving the way for the cancellation of the mandatory hijab law". As recently as Saturday it also called for the Islamic republic to "officially announce the end of the activities of the morality police" and "allow peaceful demonstrations".
Iran accuses its enemy the United States and its allies, including Britain and Israel, and Kurdish groups based outside the country, of fomenting the street protests. More than 300 people have been killed in the unrest, including dozens of security force members, an Iranian general said on Monday. Oslo-based non-government organisation Iran Human Rights on Tuesday said at least 448 people had been "killed by security forces in the ongoing nationwide protests".
Thousands of people have been arrested, including prominent Iranian actors and footballers.
Among them was the actor Hengameh Ghaziani, detained last month. She had published on Instagram a video of herself removing her head covering. She was later freed on bail, Iranian news agencies reported.
DIY-HP-LED
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Bend or break
Roger A. Shrubber
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i'd rather they break, but take what you can get, especially if the alternative is being stoned to death...
printer
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Just for giggles.
I made a palm sized pipe a while back, baked it in the oven to make it look darker. It is a little hot to use so I use a piece of silicon tubing with it to cool the smoke down. Decided to make a new one Friday night (nothing better to do) and sadly I baked it a little more than I wanted. It looks pretty good with a wet finish on it but the can I have has the solids solidified on the bottom and while the surface has been coated it is coming up a mat finish. When I get another can I'll pretty it up some. The cherry board they were cut from is 3/4" thick to give a sense of scale.
I made a palm sized pipe a while back, baked it in the oven to make it look darker. It is a little hot to use so I use a piece of silicon tubing with it to cool the smoke down. Decided to make a new one Friday night (nothing better to do) and sadly I baked it a little more than I wanted. It looks pretty good with a wet finish on it but the can I have has the solids solidified on the bottom and while the surface has been coated it is coming up a mat finish. When I get another can I'll pretty it up some. The cherry board they were cut from is 3/4" thick to give a sense of scale.
DIY-HP-LED
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I think you are gonna see a Labour government and the UK back in the EU over the next few years. The Tories loved that Russian Oligarch money flowing into the London financial markets and got a piece of it too, pesky EU banking and business regulations were getting in the way, so join with the populist idiots and get rid of the EU. It was a hairbrained scheme probably cooked up in Moscow or by a useful idiot and supported by them. The Germans just wanted gas, but the Brits wanted the ill-gotten cash without the EU regulations.
DoubleAtotheRON
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cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
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DIY-HP-LED
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Is anybody else who reads this article a bit concerned about the global financial system?
WTF is going on here?
Time for a new Breton Woods conference methinks and some serious global financial regulation.
WTF is going on here?
Time for a new Breton Woods conference methinks and some serious global financial regulation.
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Roger A. Shrubber
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people kept asking me "are you into bitcoin?" and i kept saying "no, that's made up money that can disappear tomorrow.".....
just another illustration of people's fucking stupidity and greed...they got into bitcoin to make easy money for nothing, and then to be able to hide it from the government...i feel zero fucking sympathy for anyone who goes broke because they invested in crypto...fucking ZERO...
but yes, there does need to be some global moderation, some real rules laid out.
DoubleAtotheRON
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I feel like Crypto was sort of a litmus test to see how well it would be accepted.... especially by blowing up its value. How can a BTC be worth $68,000 one month, and then $15,000 the next? ... and exactly who collected those losses from the fools who invested in it?
What are you using for the clear coat?Just for giggles.
I made a palm sized pipe a while back, baked it in the oven to make it look darker. It is a little hot to use so I use a piece of silicon tubing with it to cool the smoke down. Decided to make a new one Friday night (nothing better to do) and sadly I baked it a little more than I wanted. It looks pretty good with a wet finish on it but the can I have has the solids solidified on the bottom and while the surface has been coated it is coming up a mat finish. When I get another can I'll pretty it up some. The cherry board they were cut from is 3/4" thick to give a sense of scale.
cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
think of it as the free market in action.
DoubleAtotheRON
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I see a lot were stolen by scammers....3.5B in 2022 ..posted early this morning.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/crypto-investors-lost-3-5-100000809.html