Maroon 5 - Memories Video and Lyrics on the bottom

This song always brings tears to my eyes. Since today I thought the lyric was "Tears to the wish you were here but you're not". Everytime it said "Cheers" I thought it was "Tears". Ah well, I don't drink so I'll cheer with a glass of water, or continue to say Tears.

Memories

Maroon 5

Here's to the ones that we got
Cheers to the wish you were here, but you're not
'Cause the drinks bring back all the memories
Of everything we've been through
Toast to the ones here today
Toast to the ones that we lost on the way
'Cause the drinks bring back all the memories
And the memories bring back, memories bring back you

There's a time that I remember, when I did not know no pain
When I believed in forever, and everything would stay the same
Now my heart feel like December when somebody say your name
'Cause I can't reach out to call you, but I know I will one day, yeah

Everybody hurts sometimes
Everybody hurts someday, ayy-ayy
But everything gon' be alright
Go and raise a glass and say, ayy

Here's to the ones that we got
Cheers to the wish you were here, but you're not
'Cause the drinks bring back all the memories
Of everything we've been through
Toast to the ones here today
Toast to the ones that we lost on the way
'Cause the drinks bring back all the memories
And the memories bring back, memories bring back you

Doo-doo, doo-doo-doo-doo
Doo-doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doo-doo
Doo-doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doo
Memories bring back, memories bring back you

There's a time that I remember when I never felt so lost
When I felt all of the hatred was too powerful to stop (Ooh, yeah)
Now my heart feel like an ember and it's lighting up the dark
I'll carry these torches for ya and you know I'll never drop, yeah

Everybody hurts sometimes
Everybody hurts someday, ayy-ayy
But everything gon' be alright
Go and raise a glass and say, ayy

Here's to the ones that we got (Oh-oh)
Cheers to the wish you were here, but you're not
'Cause the drinks bring back all the memories
Of everything we've been through (No, no)
Toast to the ones here today (Ayy)
Toast to the ones that we lost on the way
'Cause the drinks bring back all the memories (Ayy)
And the memories bring back, memories bring back you

Doo-doo, doo-doo-doo-doo
Doo-doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doo-doo
Doo-doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doo
Memories bring back, memories bring back you
Doo-doo, doo-doo-doo-doo
Doo-doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doo-doo
Doo-doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doo (Ooh, yeah)
Memories bring back, memories bring back you

Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, no, no
Memories bring back, memories bring back you

Songwriters: Adam Levine, Vincent Ford, Jacob Kasher Hindlin, Jordan Johnson, Jonathan Bellion, Stefan Johnson, Michael Pollack

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“This wine is awful, get me another glass!” is a famous quote by Moira and has become a popular quote from one of our favorite TV Sitcom Shows that portraits an overindulged family, Alexis, David, Moira and Johnny who are constantly bickering and providing viewers with laughter. It's clever, witty, and very funny. Created by Dan Levy, Eugene Levy. With Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Dan Levy,  and Annie Murphy.





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Minneapolis police identify 'Umbrella Man' who helped incite George Floyd riots, warrant says - CNN

Minneapolis (CNN)Minneapolis police have identified a suspect whom they believe helped initiate the riots and destruction in the city following the killing of George Floyd.

According to a search warrant filed earlier this week, the man is associated with the "Aryan Cowboys," which the Anti-Defamation League lists as a White supremacist prison and street gang. The warrant does not label them as a White supremacist group, but describes them as a "known prison gang out of Minnesota and Kentucky." 

Video of the "Umbrella Man" went viral after protesters in Minneapolis confronted and filmed him on May 27 while he was in the act of smashing several windows of an AutoZone store.

An arson investigator wrote in a search warrant affidavit that the man also spray painted the words "free sh*t for everyone zone" on the doors of the AutoZone. Not long after he smashed in the windows, looting began, and a bit later the AutoZone was set on fire, the affidavit said.

"This was the first fire that set off a string of fires and looting throughout the precinct and the rest of the city," Sgt. Erika Christensen, a Minneapolis police arson investigator, wrote in the affidavit, which was filed in court on Monday.

"Until the actions of the person your affiant has been calling 'Umbrella Man,' the protests had been relatively peaceful. The actions of this person created an atmosphere of hostility and tension. Your affiant believes that this individual's sole aim was to incite violence."

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20 Things In Life That Are Just Not Worth It | by Joshua Press | The Startup | Medium

20 Things In Life That Are Just Not Worth It | by Joshua Press | The Startup | Medium

20 Things In Life That Are Just Not Worth It

Lessons from bad decisions.

What Are 20 Things That Are Not Worth It?

1. Dating people who have been traumatised or abused in the past who have not dealt with it.

We are supposed to be empathetic to victims and give them every chance we can. After all, it is not their fault what happened to them.

This is the appropriate response.

But not all people try to — or even can — get better.

Hurt people hurt people. You need to be careful who you are vulnerable with otherwise you too will be abused.

Some of these battles are worth it, but if you leave yourself open to someone with resulting personality issues, like people who won’t fully commit (for self-preservation); play mind games (for power); make continuously poor decisions; have addictive behaviour; or punish you for the actions of their wrongdoers — it will take a toll on you long-term to say the least.

---

2. Collaborating or working with friends merely because they are friends.

I have been friendly with people and out of that affinity or mutual interest I have committed to agreements that ended up massive failures.

A few friends never fully paid me for work, people I have worked with had not cultivated a useful level of skill, and others simply would be flaky or entitled in contradiction to the effort they were putting in.

You should work with people based on their evident skills, reputation, and all-round professionalism. If you just so happen to get along well, then that’s great and more often than not, you will.

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3. Having sex with someone because you felt pressured.

Often women feel pressured to oblige in order to evade confrontation, or ‘do what is expected of them’, and men feel obligated to pursue, to evade the humiliation of sexual ineptitude. These are tragic motivations for something so intimate.

You must understand that your body is yours and you determine your values and the situations in which you might share that experience, and with whom. Not cave to external pressures.

This is your inalienable right, and if you don’t feel comfortable about something then you absolutely must not give in because you are acting as if your feelings don’t matter. You might think you won’t remember these occasions, but they linger.

If you’re not advocating for yourself, who will?

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4. Pursuing ‘spirituality’ for purpose.

Many people who pursue new-age spirituality for purpose seem to end up selling one of its ideologies, products, or become more confused. The enlightenment of this philosophy is often “nothingness”, “being” and the “non-self”. This can be an impediment to self-actualisation.

Self-actualisation is you as something defined, engaging in your talents and developing potentials. New age spirituality however, portrays you as something indefinable.

This can result in eroding your ambition and capacity to work on your skills to unfold your potential. It can take away motivation by taking away a sense of a value hierarchy that allows you to pursue some things over others. It replaces vision of the future with the eternal present. Many people are stuck in liminality and indecision because of this.

The ego is the devil in this brand of spirituality, which is really the individual identity/personality as opposed to a collective identity. A kind of tribalism that elevates animal over man, nature over civilisation, imagination over the concrete... you’ll see that the advocates for this philosophy will dress in a tribal style that reflects this.

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5. Challenging people’s politics online.

Many things will threaten your values online, perpetually.

Unless it allows you to understand your own or another’s position with more resolution — it’s a waste of time. Almost always others won’t change their mind, so pick your battles.

Let’s be honest, it doesn’t matter how many ‘libtards’ or ‘nazis’ you destroyed, you were probably baited, trolled, or unironically responding to a satire article anyway.

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6. Ranting on social media.

Rants are emotional. The purpose isn’t necessarily to share carefully analysed information, but to purge. What sounds reasonable and effective when you are emotional is definitely unreliable in translating to those who are casually perusing social media. You probably look like an uninformed idiot that can’t control themselves.

It just provides cringe for your future self.

Good rants are usually bottled up contemplations of professionals that have analysed a situation for a period of time, which provides fertile grounds for cultivating eloquence and insight instead of tumbling out like hot diarrhea.

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7. Drinking a large amount of alcohol, in any situation.

This is a surprisingly hard conclusion for people to come to. It’s like every time there’s a bad experience, poor decision, or bad hangover, any potential lesson learned suddenly vanishes from memory — but once you see this in plain terms it kinda makes sense, right?

Alcohol can help foster a good time but quite often ruins one. It seems to make people a little more open but also a little more like animals; invoking the usually suppressed primal drives of lust and aggression to combat the wounding but necessary moderation of daily civility.

... Continue Reading the Article HERE --->>>     20 Things In Life That Are Just Not Worth It | by Joshua Press | The Startup | Medium

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Electric Avenue

Eddy Grant

Boy

Boy

Down in the street there is violence

And a lots of work to be done

No place to hang out our washing

And I can't blame all on the sun, oh no

We gonna rock down to Electric Avenue

And then we'll take it higher

Oh we gonna rock down to Electric Avenue

And then we'll take it higher

Workin' so hard like a soldier

Can't afford a thing on TV

Deep in my heart I'm a warrior

Can't get food for them kid, good God

We gonna rock down to Electric Avenue

And then we'll take it higher

Oh we gonna rock down to Electric Avenue

And then we'll take it higher

Oh no

Oh no

Oh no

Oh no

Who is to blame in one country

Never can get to the one

Dealin' in multiplication

And they still can't feed everyone, oh no

We gonna rock down to Electric Avenue

And then we'll take it higher

Oh we gonna rock down to Electric Avenue

And then we'll take it higher

Out in the street

Out in the street

Out in the daytime

Out in the night

We gonna rock down to Electric Avenue

And then we'll take it higher

Oh we gonna rock down to Electric Avenue

And then we'll take it higher

Out in the street

Out in the street

Out in the playground

In the dark side of town

We gonna rock down to Electric Avenue

And then we'll take it higher

Oh we gonna rock down to Electric Avenue

And then we'll take it higher

We gonna rock down to Electric Avenue

And then we'll take it higher, Electric Avenue

We gonna rock down to Electric Avenue

And then we'll take it higher, Electric Avenue

P.E.I. man warns of internet scam after losing $17K | CBC News

P.E.I. man warns of internet scam after losing $17K | CBC News

It started with a message popping up on Don MacFadyen's computer claiming to be from Microsoft.

"I would certainly hate to see this happen to anybody else," said MacFadyen. "It's a pandemic, all the scamming that's going on right now."

In mid-June, MacFadyen was using his home computer when he saw the message on his screen, he said. It claimed someone was trying to hack his bank account and he would be contacted by telephone the next day and told how to protect his funds. 

When the scammer called, MacFadyen was told to take cash out of his bank and transfer into a digital currency via a bitcoin machine.  

"He wanted all my money withdrawn," said MacFadyen.

"He wanted $17,000 withdrawn from my account and I wasn't supposed to tell anybody."

MacFadyen said the scammer told him the attempted hacking was under investigation and to stay quiet so they could catch the predator. 

After MacFadyen transferred the money into a bitcoin machine in Charlottetown, he was told to use other money to buy several thousands of dollars worth of Google Play gift cards. 

"And then I got the sneaking suspicion that this just does not feel right," said MacFadyen.

Similar case of fraud taken to court

When he called police, MacFadyen learned he wasn't the first victim of this kind of scam in P.E.I. 

In 2019, a woman deposited $62,000 into a bitcoin machine in Charlottetown, believing she was paying owed taxes. 

She took the bitcoin machine company to court to try to get her money back, but a judge ruled the money belonged to that company, which hadn't perpetrated the scam. 

• Charlottetown woman loses $62,500 to CRA phone scammer

• Judge rules bitcoin company not responsible for woman's loss in scam

Staff-Sergeant Kevin Baillie, of the Prince Edward Island RCMP, said if someone purports to be calling from a bank or governmental department and asks for money in the form of gift cards, it's a sure sign of a scam. 

Baillie said the pandemic could be putting more people at risk of becoming a victim of fraud.

"If people are kind of holed up in their home or working from home, not getting out of the house, they may be paying more attention to emails and phone calls," said Baillie. 

MacFadyen said while he has little chance of getting his money back, he hopes to stop others from falling into the same trap. 

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If you want to be emotionally mature, don’t look for new habits and traits to emulate. Honestly assess the ones you have, and identify those that get in the way of your natural desire to remain calm, peaceful, and flexible.
Stop running away from emotionally challenging situations.
Stop blaming others.
Stop beating yourself up.
Stop fighting battles not worth fighting.



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Jameela Jamil Poses Unretouched in Oversize Suits for Playboy: 'I Wanted to Be Shot Like a Man': Jameela Jamil is redefining what it means to pose for Playboy.

The Good Place star, 34, graced the pages of the magazine’s “On Speech” spring issue wearing a crisp white button-down shirt, a tie and several menswear-inspired suits. She accessorized one oversize set with studded leather boots and paired the others with a sheer black turtleneck. For the shoot, Jamil styled her long brown hair in loose waves and rocked her signature makeup look: winged eyeliner and a bold lip color.

On Thursday, the actress and activist shared photos from the new spread on Twitter and revealed that she wanted to feel “completely unsexualized” during the photo shoot, despite the outlet’s reputation for publishing images of half-clothed and nude women since Hugh Hefner founded it in 1953.

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“I wanted to be shot like a man,” Jamil — who guest edited the Playboy issue, along with her racial inclusivity movement, I Weigh — captioned the stunning snaps. “No retouching, hi res, loose, comfortable clothes and completely unsexualized. I felt extremely free.”

She added, “My interview was @iSmashFizzle [Ashley C. Ford] who also made me feel free. Maybe too free during an interview?”

In the Playboy story, Jamil candidly discussed her mental health, sharing that she didn’t realize she was suffering from depression until she had a breakdown.

“I didn’t identify that I had depression, because I wasn’t crying all the time; I wasn’t lying down eating ice cream under a blanket. It was a complete lack of emotion. It was a complete lack of care about myself, about other people, about anything,” she said. “That’s what my breakdown felt like, that I wasn’t attached to anything or anyone.”

Jamil said her depression culminated in two separate suicide attempts. The actress said learning to live her “complete truth all the time” has helped her cope — including speaking out about her past and current struggles.

“It explains why I’m now this maniac who has so much to lose but still risks it all,” she said. “Because this is the deal I made with myself to put up with this s—t, to stay on this earth. I’m going to do it, and I’m going to make it an adventure and figure out who the f—k I actually am.”

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Researchers find a western-style diet can impair brain function | Science | The Guardian

Researchers find a western-style diet can impair brain function | Science | The Guardian: After seven days on a high fat, high added sugar diet, volunteers scored worse on memory tests

Consuming a Western diet for as little as one week can subtly impair brain function and encourage slim and otherwise healthy young people to overeat, scientists claim.

Researchers found that after seven days on a high fat, high added sugar diet, volunteers in their 20s scored worse on memory tests and found junk food more desirable immediately after they had finished a meal.

The finding suggests that a western diet makes it harder for people to regulate their appetite, and points to disruption in a brain region called the hippocampus as the possible cause.

“After a week on a western-style diet, palatable food such as snacks and chocolate becomes more desirable when you are full,” said Richard Stevenson, a professor of psychology at Macquarie University in Sydney. “This will make it harder to resist, leading you to eat more, which in turn generates more damage to the hippocampus and a vicious cycle of overeating.”

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Previous work in animals has shown that junk food impairs the hippocampus, a brain region involved in memory and appetite control. It is unclear why, but one idea is that the hippocampus normally blocks or weakens memories about food when we are full, so looking at a cake does not flood the mind with memories of how nice cake can be. “When the hippocampus functions less efficiently, you do get this flood of memories, and so food is more appealing,” Stevenson said.

To investigate how the western diet affects humans, the scientists recruited 110 lean and healthy students, aged 20 to 23, who generally ate a good diet. Half were randomly assigned to a control group who ate their normal diet for a week. The other half were put on a high energy western-style diet, which featured a generous intake of Belgian waffles and fast food.

At the start and end of the week, the volunteers ate breakfast in the lab. Before and after the meal, they completed word memory tests and scored a range of high-sugar foods, such as Coco Pops, Frosties and Froot Loops, according to how much they wanted and then liked the foods on eating them.

“The more desirable people find the palatable food when full, following the western-style diet, the more impaired they were on the test of hippocampal function,” Stevenson said. The finding suggests that disruption of the hippocampus may underpin both, he added.

Stevenson believes that in time governments will come under pressure to impose restrictions on processed food, much as they did to deter smoking. “Demonstrating that processed foods can lead to subtle cognitive impairments that affect appetite and serve to promote overeating in otherwise healthy young people should be a worrying finding for everyone,” he said. The work is published in Royal Society Open Science.

In the longer term, eating a western-style diet contributes to obesity and diabetes, both of which have been linked to declines in brain performance and the risk of developing dementia. “The new thinking here is the realisation that a western-style diet may be generating initial and fairly subtle cognitive impairments, that undermine the control of appetite which gradually opens the way for all of these other effects down the track,” Stevenson said.

Rachel Batterham, professor of obesity, diabetes and endocrinology at University College London, who was not involved in the study, said it was one of the first to investigate whether the western diet impairs memory and appetite control in humans.

“Understanding the impact of a western diet on brain function is a matter of urgency given the current food climate,” she said. “This research has provided data to support detrimental effects on both memory and appetite control after just one week of an energy-dense diet and may suggest a link between poor diet and impairment of the hippocampus, a key memory and appetite-associated brain region. The mechanisms at work remain to be elucidated and will require further research with the application of more sophisticated neuroimaging methods.”

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Canadian consumers stung by cellphone porting scam: ‘It’s the creepiest thing’

Canadian consumers stung by cellphone porting scam: ‘It’s the creepiest thing’: With the unintended help of her phone company, a scammer was able to seize Carolyn Morgan's phone number.

A new message from her phone provider, Rogers, came as a surprise.

"I read it twice," Morgan told Global News.

Then, she said, something clicked. Something wasn't right.

The message read: "Rogers has received a request to transfer your phone number to another Service Provider. If you did not authorize, contact Rogers urgently..." and went on to provide a toll-free telephone number.

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The Toronto woman says she hadn't made any request to transfer her number, a practice known in the wireless industry as porting.

Typically, porting occurs when a wireless customer wants to switch phone providers but wishes to keep their existing phone number.

Following instructions on the text, Morgan immediately called Rogers to tell the company she hadn't placed an order. She says she waited on hold for 24 minutes before her line died.

"That's when I realized, 'oh, there's no phone service,'" she said.

At that moment, her number had been switched. A scammer, with the unintended aid of her phone company, had seized her number.

When the line went dead, she logged onto Rogers' chat service and reported the unauthorized switch to a Rogers agent, who confirmed the line had been ported.

Morgan says the agent promised the company would try to get it back.

But it took about 20 hours before Rogers restored her number. She says she had to call the company a second time to remind them.

In that period, she says cyber-thieves were able to use her phone account to change her email passwords and access her banking information.  A credit card company reported an unauthorized $700 purchase.

With access to her phone number and the ability to receive and send messages on it, thieves could override what's known as two-factor authentication used to secure accounts.

Two-factor authentication allows a consumer to receive a text message with a code to prove they are the authorized account holder.

At one point, Morgan says she was attempting to restore an email account while the scammer was also using it and looting personal information.

"It's the creepiest thing," Morgan told Global News in an interview.

She's one of a growing number of Canadians to fall victim to this kind of scam, one Canada's wireless industry says it's trying to wrestle with.

"Unfortunately, there are criminals who are using illegally-obtained personal data to defraud consumers in a variety of ways and across industries," said a spokesperson for the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association, also known as the CWTA.

"Unauthorized phone number transfers are one example."

Rogers told Global News it is attempting to guard against fraud involving customers' accounts.

“We take protecting our customers’ personal information very seriously, and as fraudsters evolve their tactics, we work with other carriers to continually strengthen processes to prevent unauthorized porting, including new protections put in place this past fall," a spokesperson said in a written statement.

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In 2008, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) stated that wireless carriers should carry out number porting within two and a half hours.

A customer service representative who spoke to Morgan by phone in the presence of Global News said it was not the company's responsibility to compensate customers who suffered a financial loss for fraud. Nor would the representative agree to offer her identity theft monitoring, which is frequently provided to credit and loyalty card customers whose accounts are hacked.

Morgan says she feels let down by Rogers, which she says ought to have acted more carefully before allowing her number to be given to a scammer.

"They handed the fraudsters the keys to the kingdom by not double or triple-checking...to make sure I requested the port, that’s what frustrated me the most."

Obama talks Trump, Thunberg and his favourite thing about Canada | CTV News

Obama talks Trump, Thunberg and his favourite thing about Canada | CTV News: Efforts by the Trump administration to undo fuel-efficiency standards for vehicles are a setback to the battle against climate change, former U.S. president Barack Obama said on Thursday.

It will require a "surge of energy" from citizens to put pressure on large institutions to tackle greenhouse gas emissions that exacerbate global warming, Obama said. It's a cause, he said, that younger people increasingly understand and are willing to take on.

"Which is why you have somebody like a Greta Thunberg who gets so much traction," he said. "Because she speaks for a generation that is going to have to deal with this mess in a way that somebody like me, who's 58, is not going to have to deal with it."

Simply hectoring individual citizens or blaming developing countries for not doing more to rein in harmful emissions, he said, won't fix the problem. He described a situation in which a man has to drive 50 miles every day in an old pickup truck to his job so he can support his family. He can't afford an electric or hybrid vehicle and there's no mass transit.

"You can lecture about climate change but he's just trying to get to work," Obama said. "And if you are dismissive of his legitimate specific concerns about supporting his family, then he is going to tune you out, regardless of the science of climate change."

Similarly, he said, millions of people in the Third World live without basics, so it would be unreasonable to expect them to reject coal-fired electricity that could transform their lives.

At the same time, Obama said, citizens in places like China or India to press their governments to do better. One reason he was able to persuade the Beijing government to sign on to the Paris Accords was because the growing middle class in China, faced with nasty pediatric cancer rates or unbreathable air, views environmental degradation as their most important political concern, he said.

"The Chinese government, even though it's not a democracy, became sensitive enough to the potential political instability of this environmental crisis that they said, 'It makes sense for us to sign up."

Obama said the U.S. and other industrial nations spent decades spewing pollution as they developed their economies and built infrastructure until they locked in a high carbon economy. It's simply unreasonable to tell developing countries they need to stop, he argued.

What the West needs to do is help the Third World "leapfrog our development models" and come up with systems where they can get electricity and produce enough food without destroying the planet.

"We have to figure out how do we give them the opportunity to enjoy a reasonable standard of living while still preserving the environment," Obama said.

The thousands of people attending the event put on by the Economic Club and Global Institute for Conscious Economics also heard the former president talk about his favourite thing about Canada.

"You're just so reasonable," he said. "Canadians are super reasonable."

This story was first published by The Canadian Press on Jan. 23, 2020.