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[h=1]Singapore Smoker Fined $15,000 For Throwing Butts Out Window[/h]
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore has fined a smoker S$19,800 ($15,000) for throwing cigarette butts out of his flat window, the National Environment Agency said, the highest ever such fine.

The man was fined S$600 per cigarette for the first 33 offences, and ordered to do community service for the 34th, all committed within four days, the agency said.

The 38-year-old smoker, who was caught on surveillance camera, will have to clean a public area for five hours wearing a bright vest bearing the words "Corrective Work Order".

Singapore, famous for its cleanliness, cracks down hard on even minor crimes like littering and vandalism, which is punishable by caning, and bans the import of chewing gum, in part to keep its public areas spotless.

The agency said on its website it deployed surveillance cameras at nearly 600 locations and took 206 enforcement actions against offenders for high-rise littering in 2014.

It did not say which floor the smoker lived on.

(Reporting by Rujun Shen; Editing by Nick Macfie)

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/22/singapore-smoker-fined_n_6521644.html

 

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Been to Singapore before and I can tell you this for sure, it is spotless there!

 

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[h=1]The benefits couple who are too FAT to work: Newlyweds who weigh 54 stone between them claim £2,000 a month – and they say it's the Government's fault[/h]

• Stephen Beer and Michelle Coombe claim they are too fat to work
• Steve, 45, weighs 31 stone and his partner Michelle, 43, is 23 stone
• Couple claim more than £20,000 benefits each year because of weight
• Were filmed by makers of Channel 5 show Benefits: Too Fat To Work
• Producers followed them as they organised their wedding ceremony
• It included canapes and a buffet provided by their favourite kebab shop
• They're also seen enjoying £12 takeaway to celebrate losing a few pounds

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...its-fat-work-use-pay-3-000-dream-wedding.html

 

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Did you know that when you hover over member handles in the last post in the Lobby thread list, it shows whether or not they're online? I never noticed that before.

 

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[h=1]15 successful entrepreneurs share the most important lesson they learned in their 20s[/h]
https://business.financialpost.com/...t-important-lesson-they-learned-in-their-20s/

 

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1916_Cumberland_vs._Georgia_Tech_football_game

 

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As the Beatles evolved as musicians, they gradually increased their experimentation in the studio and released some of their most iconic music. Here are just a few of the amazing tricks the Fab Four used to get their signature sounds.

1. Eleanor Rigby:As the story goes, the haunting string melody heard throughout Eleanor Rigby only came to be after John Lennon hired a classical ensemble and asked them to play something that sounds like The Flintstones song but sad.

2. Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band:To get the applause on the opening track of their seminal album, the band just recorded Ringo clapping with delight every one of the hundreds of times another band member lied to him about there being free ice cream, and then looped them all together.

3. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da:Craving to find a new sound, John Lennon famously suggested that the band swallow a bundle of grapes and hope that whatever air made it past their swollen windpipes would be their next big hit. Sure enough, Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da was a smash success.

4. She Loves You:Because this hit was released in 1963, three years before the invention of the guitar, the Beatles had to create the guitar sound with plucked violins.

5. Day Tripper:According to legend, while George Harrison was sleeping one night, he began suddenly screaming the opening guitar riff over and over again. After hearing it, the band quickly rushed him to the studio, careful not to wake him up until they could get it on tape.

6. Blackbird:In many of their songs, and most notably in Blackbird, the Beatles used a recording technique called Backwards Driving, where they sang a song while driving a car backwards at 100 miles per hour and placed the microphone on a second car driving forwards. They eventually abandoned this method after crashing into an Italian restaurant.

7. Yesterday:The reason that Paul McCartney sounds so sad during his performance on this song is that, just before recording, John Lennon had taken him aside and told him that James Bond wasnt a real person.

8. Love Me Doerforming this song required each Beatles member to stand at one vertex of a pentagram. John faced north toward Polaris, Paul toward Easter Island, George toward Jerusalem, and Ringo stared straight down toward the chthonic depths of the Earth. When the ritual was complete, the Fifth Beatle appeared on the unoccupied point of the pentagram and played the harmonica riff.

 

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As the Beatles evolved as musicians, they gradually increased their experimentation in the studio and released some of their most iconic music. Here are just a few of the amazing tricks the Fab Four used to get their signature sounds.

1. Eleanor Rigby:As the story goes, the haunting string melody heard throughout Eleanor Rigby only came to be after John Lennon hired a classical ensemble and asked them to play something that sounds like The Flintstones song but sad.

2. Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band:To get the applause on the opening track of their seminal album, the band just recorded Ringo clapping with delight every one of the hundreds of times another band member lied to him about there being free ice cream, and then looped them all together.

3. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da:Craving to find a new sound, John Lennon famously suggested that the band swallow a bundle of grapes and hope that whatever air made it past their swollen windpipes would be their next big hit. Sure enough, Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da was a smash success.

4. She Loves You:Because this hit was released in 1963, three years before the invention of the guitar, the Beatles had to create the guitar sound with plucked violins.

5. Day Tripper:According to legend, while George Harrison was sleeping one night, he began suddenly screaming the opening guitar riff over and over again. After hearing it, the band quickly rushed him to the studio, careful not to wake him up until they could get it on tape.

6. Blackbird:In many of their songs, and most notably in Blackbird, the Beatles used a recording technique called Backwards Driving, where they sang a song while driving a car backwards at 100 miles per hour and placed the microphone on a second car driving forwards. They eventually abandoned this method after crashing into an Italian restaurant.

7. Yesterday:The reason that Paul McCartney sounds so sad during his performance on this song is that, just before recording, John Lennon had taken him aside and told him that James Bond wasnt a real person.

8. Love Me Doerforming this song required each Beatles member to stand at one vertex of a pentagram. John faced north toward Polaris, Paul toward Easter Island, George toward Jerusalem, and Ringo stared straight down toward the chthonic depths of the Earth. When the ritual was complete, the Fifth Beatle appeared on the unoccupied point of the pentagram and played the harmonica riff.

BOB??

 

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[h=1]First measles case confirmed in York Region[/h]

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2015/02/11/first-measles-case-confirmed-in-york-region.html

 

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Ralph Macchio (The Karate Kid) is now the same age that Pat Morita (Mr. Miyagi) was when The Karate Kid was filmed. :SayWhat?:

 

[Curly]

The fencing response is an unnatural position of the arms following a concussion. Immediately after moderate forces have been applied to the brainstem, the forearms are held flexed or extended (typically into the air) for a period lasting up to several seconds after the impact.

The Fencing Response is often observed during athletic competition involving contact, such as football, hockey, rugby, boxing and martial arts. It is used as an overt indicator of injury force magnitude and midbrain localization to aid in injury identification and classification for events including, but not limited to, on-field and/or bystander observations of sports-related head injuries.

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[Cooldaddy]

Have a small kit in your car. Include jumper cables, road flare, reflective triangle, tow rope. Also put an extra quart of oil, flashlight and bungee cords

 

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YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar's forestry department has captured a rare white elephant in the jungles of the country's western Ayeyarwaddy region, an official said Sunday.

The 7-year-old female was captured Friday, six weeks after it was initially spotted in a reserve in Pathein township, forestry official Tun Tun Oo said. It's the ninth white elephant in captivity in the country.

"We had to be careful," Tun Tun Oo said of the 1.9-meter-tall (6-foot-3) elephant. "It's wild. We didn't want the elephant or the forestry department officials to get hurt."
White elephants, which are actually albinos, have been revered for centuries in Myanmar, Thailand, Laos and other Asian nations.
Often pinkish in color, with fair eyelashes and toenails, the animals were normally kept and pampered by monarchs as symbols of royal power and prosperity — and many people still believe they bring good luck to the country.

Myanmar already has eight white elephants in captivity, most from the Ayeyarwaddy region. Five are in the zoo in the capital, Naypyitaw, and three are in Yangon's zoo.
It was not immediately clear where the recently captured elephant will be housed.
Previous white elephants transported from Myanmar's jungles have been heralded in lavish ceremonies in which military leaders sprinkle them with scented water laced with gold, silver and precious gems.

A war was fought in the 16th century between Thailand and Myanmar — then known as Siam and Burma, respectively — over disputed ownership of four white elephants.
According to the World Wildlife Fund, there are between 25,600 and 32,750 Asian elephants remaining in the wild. Only males carry tusks and are the exclusive victims of poaching for their ivory.

The capture of wild elephants for domestic use has become a threat to wild populations. India, Vietnam and Myanmar have banned capture in order to conserve their wild herds, but in Myanmar elephants are still caught each year for the timber industry or the illegal wildlife trade, the WWF says.

 

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'Spocking' Laurier on $5 bill not illegal, Bank of Canada says

The death of Leonard Nimoy last week inspired people to post photos on social media of marked-up banknotes that show Canada's seventh prime minister transformed to resemble Spock, Nimoy's famous "Star Trek" character.

For years, Canadians have doodled Spock's pointy Vulcan ears, sharp eyebrows and signature bowl haircut on the fiver's image of Laurier, the first francophone PM.

Contrary to popular belief, it's not illegal to deface or even mutilate banknotes, the Bank of Canada said Monday -- although the publication of a banknote's likeness is still prohibited, except under certain conditions.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/spocking-laurier-on-5-bill-not-illegal-bank-of-canada-says-1.2260461

 

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It`s surprising how many men have dry skin.

 

[Fullthrottle]

Best curve ball this year.

 

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