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    Karma (Does Karma Exist or Doesn’t It?)



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    In this 'graduate understanding of Karma' video, Teal explains how we have had a flawed understanding of Karma for a long long time. Teal Swan explains that Karma is essentially the observation of the law of attraction. Teal Swan explains how karma pertains to re-incarnation and past lives.
    Published on Apr 20, 2019

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    Boz Scaggs - Lowdown


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    The Truth About Dentistry

    It’s much less scientific—and more prone to gratuitous procedures—than you may think.

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    Yellow vest anger burns in France, fueled by Notre Dame fire

    PARIS (AP) — "French yellow vest protesters set fires Saturday along a march through Paris to drive home their message to a government they believe is ignoring the poor: that rebuilding the fire-ravaged Notre Dame Cathedral isn’t the only problem France needs to solve.

    Like the high-visibility vests the protesters wear, the scattered small fires in Paris appeared to be a collective plea to French President Emmanuel Macron’s government to “look at me — I need help too!”

    Police fired water cannon and sprayed tear gas to try to control radical elements rampaging on the margins of the largely peaceful march, one of several actions around Paris and other French cities.

    The protests marked the 23rd straight weekend of yellow vest actions against Macron’s centrist government, which they see as favoring the wealthy and big business. Protesters view themselves as standing up for beleaguered French workers , students and retirees who have been battered by high unemployment, high taxes and shrinking purchasing power.

    But violence and divisions have marred the movement.

    Associated Press reporters saw a car, motorbikes and barricades set ablaze around the Place de la Republique plaza in eastern Paris. The smell of tear gas mixed with the smoke, choking the air.

    Paris firefighters — who struggled earlier this week to prevent the 12th-century Notre Dame from collapsing — quickly responded to extinguish the flames at Saturday’s protest.

    Masked protesters hurled paving stones and flares. Helmeted riot police repeatedly charged as they tried to contain the crowd. AP reporters saw at least two journalists injured in the melee. Troublemakers also ransacked at least two stores and one black-clad protester jumped on a parked Mercedes, smashing its windshields.

    Paris police said authorities detained more than 200 people by early afternoon and carried out spot checks on more than 20,000 trying to enter the capital for the protest.

    The violence contrasted sharply with the peaceful atmosphere at another march through Paris, where demonstrators mourned the Notre Dame blaze while also keeping up the pressure on Macron. They tried to march to Notre Dame itself, but were stopped by police a few hundred meters (yards) away.

    Young women at that march skipped down a street along the Seine River, accompanied by drummers and singers. One protester carried a huge wooden cross resembling those carried in Good Friday processions.

    Many protesters were deeply saddened by the fire at a national monument . But at the same time they are angry at the $1 billion in donations for Notre Dame renovations that poured in from French tycoons while their own economic demands remain largely unmet and they struggle to make ends meet.

    “I think what happened at Notre Dame is a great tragedy but humans should be more important than stones,” said protester Jose Fraile.

    Some 60,000 police officers mobilized for Saturday’s protests across France, and the heavy security thwarted some tourists trying to enjoy the French capital on a warm spring day.

    “Paris is very difficult right now,” said Paul Harlow of Kansas City, Missouri, as he looked sadly at the damaged Notre Dame.

    He and his wife Susan were in Paris only for a few days and didn’t make it in time to see the cathedral. On Saturday, their efforts to visit museums were derailed by closed subways and barricaded roads.

    “I don’t think we’ll be back,” he said.

    Other visitors showed solidarity with the yellow vest cause.

    “I am not interested in joining them, but I can understand what they’re angry about,” said Antonio Costes, a retiree from the Paris suburb of Montreuil who came Saturday to see the damage to Notre Dame. “There is a lot of injustice.”


    By ANGELA CHARLTON and MICHEL EULER
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    Quote Originally posted by giovonni View Post
    ♪ I wonder wonder wonder wonder who ♪

    Boz Scaggs - Lowdown


    Three truly great artists, for sure, and I see they've surrounded themselves with another fine selection of musicians. I recognize Shannon Forrest on the drums ─ he's been touring with Toto ever since Simon Phillips left the band, and Toto isn't exactly going to hire just anyone as a drummer, especially not after over a decade with Jeff Porcaro and then more than two decades with Simon Phillips ─ and the guy who plays lead guitar here used to play with Joe Jackson.

    In a way, it all fits together perfectly for those who know the history of all these musicians. Toto itself ─ Jeff Porcaro, Steve Porcaro, original bass player David Hungate and later also Steve Lukather ─ started off as Boz Scaggs' backing group. Michael McDonald has been a member of the Doobie Brothers and of Steely Dan, and has as a session musician also supplied backing vocals on Toto's "I'll Be Over You", while Donald Fagen was of course one of the founding members of Steely Dan.

    Birds of a feather flock together.


    P.S.: Toto has played "Lowdown" once during a soundcheck, with Steve Lukather mimicking Boz Scaggs' voice. It was funny.
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    This Week On Howard: Benjy's Dating Profile, Pig Island, and Rapaport's Knicks Seats

    The Howard Stern Show

    In this week’s Top Noine Stern Show moments, Benjy Bronk gets called out for his dating profile, Chris Wilding reports on Jason Kaplan’s trip to Pig Island, and Michael Rapaport calls Howard to clarify where he sits at Knicks games.
    Published on Apr 19, 2019

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    New Zealand Road Trip | Van Life Lake Rotorua to Taupo

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    Want to take a van life road trip across New Zealand? Join Alex The Vagabond and Carrie Rad as they travel from Auckland to Christchurch on an epic road trip.

    In this video Alex and Carrie travel from Lake Rotorua to Lake Taupo and go fly fishing on a pristine river in a beautiful forest, but things don't go as planned along the way!

    Note: Alex and Marko the Vagabrothers series channel creators, are brothers and vagabonds from San Diego, California but now live in Venice Beach in Los Angeles. We’ve traveled all over Europe by train, bicycle and road trips, we’ve backpacked through South America and South East Asia and explored the wilderness of Africa. From Machu Picchu Peru to Cape Town, Ireland, The Basque Country in Spain to South Korea and all the way back to Thailand or Helsinki, Finland - we’ve haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on our list.
    Published on Apr 20, 2019

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    Great song to have a beer with...Lowdown
    “El revolucionario: te meteré la bota en el culo"

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    An Alex and Eddie Moment - JRE Toons


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    Published on Apr 21, 2019
    Another hilarious moment animated by PaulyToon from the Joe Rogan Experience #1255 - Alex Jones Returns! (https://youtu.be/-5yh2HcIlkU).
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    An Alex and Eddie Moment - JRE Toons
    Damn, and there I was, waiting for the video thumbnail to load, thinking this was going to be about Alex and Eddie Van Halen.
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    Apr 22, 2019 3:00 pm

    10% of Americans don’t use the internet. Who are they?



    "For many Americans, going online is an important way to connect with friends and family, shop, get news and search for information. Yet today, 10% of U.S. adults do not use the internet, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of survey data.

    The size of this group has changed little over the past four years, despite ongoing government and social service programs to encourage internet adoption in underserved areas. But that 10% figure is substantially lower than in 2000, when the Center first began to study the social impact of technology. That year, nearly half (48%) of American adults did not use the internet.

    Internet non-adoption is linked to a number of demographic variables, including age, educational attainment, household income and community type, the Center’s latest analysis finds."


    "For instance, seniors are much more likely than younger adults to say they never go online. Although the share of non-internet users ages 65 and older has decreased by 7 percentage points since 2018, 27% still do not use the internet, compared with fewer than 10% of adults under the age of 65. Household income and education are also indicators of a person’s likelihood to be offline. Roughly three-in-ten adults with less than a high school education (29%) do not use the internet in 2019, compared with 35% in 2018. But that share falls as the level of educational attainment increases. Adults from households earning less than $30,000 a year are far more likely than the most affluent adults to not use the internet (18% vs. 2%).

    Rural Americans are more likely than those who live in urban or suburban settings to never use the internet, but the share who do not use the internet has dropped 7 points since 2018. And due in part to the share of offline whites declining since 2018, blacks and Hispanics are more likely than whites to report that they never go online. (There were not enough Asian respondents in the sample to be broken out into a separate analysis.)"

    Despite some groups having persistently lower rates of internet adoption, the vast majority of Americans are now online. Over time, the offline population has been shrinking, and for some groups that change has been especially dramatic. For example, 86% of adults ages 65 and older did not go online in 2000; today that figure has been reduced to 27%. Among those without a high school diploma, the share not using the internet dropped from 81% to 29% in the same time period."




    "A 2013 Pew Research Center survey found some key reasons that some people do not use the internet. A third of non-internet users (34%) did not go online because they had no interest in doing so or did not think the internet was relevant to their lives. Another 32% of non-users said the internet was too difficult to use, including 8% of this group who said they were “too old to learn.” Cost was also a barrier for some adults who were offline – 19% cited the expense of internet service or owning a computer."


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    Note: Methodology can be found here (PDF). This is an update of a post originally published July 18, 2015.

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    Skunk Baxter (the original guitarist) leads this outstanding rendition of Steely Dan's

    Rikki Don't Lose That Number


    Jeff "Skunk" Baxter performs Rikki Don't Lose That Number live at the NAMM Show 2016 TEC Awards in Anaheim, CA. Featuring Kipp Lennon on vocals, Nathan East on bass, CJ Vanston on keys and the Larry Batiste 2Cold Chili Bone TEC Band.
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    PBS News Wrap: Saudi Arabia beheads 37 in mass execution ...


    Published on Apr 23, 2019
    In our news wrap Tuesday, Saudi Arabia beheaded 37 people in the Kingdom’s largest mass execution since 2016. The Saudi government said those killed were found guilty of attacking security installations, killing security officers and cooperating with what it called “enemy organizations.” Meanwhile, the deadline set by Congress for President Trump to release his tax returns has come and gone.
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