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2. Caesar's Palace - where Andre Agassi's father used to work.
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3. Floating Craps game at the Sands circa 1954
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4. The Flamingo, opened by Bugsy Siegel, aka Moe Greene in The Godfather, in 1946.
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6. Bellagio
New Category: Fountains
1. Nine Floating Fountains, Osaka Japan
New Category: Fountains
1. Nine Floating Fountains, Osaka Japan
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2. Buckingham Fountain Chicago
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3. Trevi, Roma
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4. Dublin Fountains
www.dublinairport.com
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Dublin Airport has upgraded its water fountains and retrofitted them with new taps to make it easier to refill water bottles. Dublin Airport has also made its water fountains more visible by re-branding them with new Hydration Station signage.
“We hope that by improving passenger awareness of our Hydration Stations, passengers and airport staff will further reduce their reliance on single use plastic bottles,” he added.
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Fountains Dublin City Fontaines D.C. (Dublin City)
Dublin Airport's Hydration Stations Take Off
Here you will find latest news and updates from Dublin Airport. From new routes, stores and airlines to future expansion plans.
www.dublinairport.com
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Dublin Airport has upgraded its water fountains and retrofitted them with new taps to make it easier to refill water bottles. Dublin Airport has also made its water fountains more visible by re-branding them with new Hydration Station signage.
“We hope that by improving passenger awareness of our Hydration Stations, passengers and airport staff will further reduce their reliance on single use plastic bottles,” he added.
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5. Manneken Pis, aka Goffin Fountain, Brussels:
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6. of Youth
New Category: Myths
1. Paul Bunyan & Babe the Blue Ox
New Category: Myths
1. Paul Bunyan & Babe the Blue Ox
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2. Vaccines cause autism.
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3. Icarus flying too close to the sun despite warning from father Daedalus that the wax holding his wings would melt.
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Fontaines DC are one of the most interesting bands out there right now. i wanted to go see them but it sold out very fast here in Denver.
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4. Religion to be realistic (not trying to antagonize just being real).
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You are not antagonizing with me.
It’s the most sophisticated form of superstition.
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5. Kyrie Irving, “educated” at Duke, claims to believe the Earth is flat, not round.
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6. Opposites attract
In setting honeytraps or staging “chance encounter” elicitations in places like bars, intelligence and internal security agencies know that similarities draw targets in and enhance the feeling of “connection.” A common scenario is to have a profile of the target and brief the agency’s asset (often an attractive woman) to fake having similar interests or life experiences.
theconversation.com
Excerpts:
If you were brought up on a diet of Disney fairy tales, you might be forgiven for thinking that opposites attract. Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella, and The Little Mermaid all perpetuate the idea that the ideal partner is someone who has the opposite qualities to ourselves.
But it’s not just Disney: the idea that opposites attract has completely saturated the film industry – think of the neurotic comedian who falls for the free-spirited singer in Woody Allen’s Annie Hall, for example. In fact, one study found that almost 80% of us believe in the idea that opposites attract.
But a new study tracking people’s digital footprints – how they behave online – suggests this isn’t actually true in real life. And it isn’t the first time science has come to that conclusion. For decades, psychologists and sociologists have pointed out that the idea that opposites attract is a myth.
In fact, almost all the evidence suggests that opposites very rarely attract. The psychologist Donn Byrne was one of the first to study the impact of similarity on the early stages of relationships.
His results showed that participants reported feeling more attracted to people who held similar attitudes. In fact, the greater the degree of attitudinal similarity, the greater the attraction and liking.
To explain his findings, Byrne argued that most of us have a need for a logical and consistent view of the world. We tend to favour ideas and beliefs that support and reinforce that consistency. People who agree with us validate our attitudes and so satisfy this need, whereas people who disagree with us tend to stimulate negative feelings – anxiety, confusion and maybe even anger – that lead to repulsion.
In the mid-1950s, the sociologist Robert Francis Winch argued that, when it comes to our personalities, what matters is not similarity but complementarity. Based on his studies of spouses, he suggested that individuals would be attracted to others who possess personality traits that they lack. An assertive woman, for example, would be attracted to a submissive man while an extroverted man would be attracted to an introverted woman.
As it turns out, there is almost no evidence to support this hypothesis. Studies of friends and spouses consistently find that two individuals are more likely to be friends and spouses if they are similar in terms of their personalities.
In fact, the idea that we are more attracted to similar others is incredibly robust. One review of 313 studies with over 35,000 participants found that similarity was a strong predictor of attraction in the early stages of a relationship – finding no evidence that opposites attract. So strong is the relationship that some psychologists have even proclaimed the similarity effect as “one of the best generalisations in social psychology”.
American authors of the last 75 years:
1. Bret Easton Ellis
TTMR & Son ("Less Than Zero")
In setting honeytraps or staging “chance encounter” elicitations in places like bars, intelligence and internal security agencies know that similarities draw targets in and enhance the feeling of “connection.” A common scenario is to have a profile of the target and brief the agency’s asset (often an attractive woman) to fake having similar interests or life experiences.
Why opposites rarely attract
Most of us tend to be attracted to people who are similar to ourselves. But there’s an important exception to this rule.
theconversation.com
Excerpts:
If you were brought up on a diet of Disney fairy tales, you might be forgiven for thinking that opposites attract. Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella, and The Little Mermaid all perpetuate the idea that the ideal partner is someone who has the opposite qualities to ourselves.
But it’s not just Disney: the idea that opposites attract has completely saturated the film industry – think of the neurotic comedian who falls for the free-spirited singer in Woody Allen’s Annie Hall, for example. In fact, one study found that almost 80% of us believe in the idea that opposites attract.
But a new study tracking people’s digital footprints – how they behave online – suggests this isn’t actually true in real life. And it isn’t the first time science has come to that conclusion. For decades, psychologists and sociologists have pointed out that the idea that opposites attract is a myth.
In fact, almost all the evidence suggests that opposites very rarely attract. The psychologist Donn Byrne was one of the first to study the impact of similarity on the early stages of relationships.
His results showed that participants reported feeling more attracted to people who held similar attitudes. In fact, the greater the degree of attitudinal similarity, the greater the attraction and liking.
To explain his findings, Byrne argued that most of us have a need for a logical and consistent view of the world. We tend to favour ideas and beliefs that support and reinforce that consistency. People who agree with us validate our attitudes and so satisfy this need, whereas people who disagree with us tend to stimulate negative feelings – anxiety, confusion and maybe even anger – that lead to repulsion.
In the mid-1950s, the sociologist Robert Francis Winch argued that, when it comes to our personalities, what matters is not similarity but complementarity. Based on his studies of spouses, he suggested that individuals would be attracted to others who possess personality traits that they lack. An assertive woman, for example, would be attracted to a submissive man while an extroverted man would be attracted to an introverted woman.
As it turns out, there is almost no evidence to support this hypothesis. Studies of friends and spouses consistently find that two individuals are more likely to be friends and spouses if they are similar in terms of their personalities.
In fact, the idea that we are more attracted to similar others is incredibly robust. One review of 313 studies with over 35,000 participants found that similarity was a strong predictor of attraction in the early stages of a relationship – finding no evidence that opposites attract. So strong is the relationship that some psychologists have even proclaimed the similarity effect as “one of the best generalisations in social psychology”.
American authors of the last 75 years:
1. Bret Easton Ellis
TTMR & Son ("Less Than Zero")
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2. Colson Whitehead
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3. George Saunders
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4. Hunter S. Thompson
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5. Ken Kesey
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I was a non traditional student, started late 20s and was an English major. We did American Psycho in a class and the professors husband joined us, BEE was one of his specialties. A girl from Austria flew in (to San Diego) to listen to the lecture, he was that renowned for his analysis. I have kept up with BEE over the years, certainly a clever author.
I was a non traditional student, started late 20s and was an English major. We did American Psycho in a class and the professors husband joined us, BEE was one of his specialties. A girl from Austria flew in (to San Diego) to listen to the lecture, he was that renowned for his analysis. I have kept up with BEE over the years, certainly a clever author.
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6. Toni Morrison
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Tonys or Tonis or anything close.
1. Tony Gwynn
Tonys or Tonis or anything close.
1. Tony Gwynn
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Where in San Diego was the lecture?
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2. Tony's Pizza Napoletana
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San Diego State, professor's name was Larry McCaffrey although I may be spelling the name wrong. His research interests were contemporary American authors especially those 'out there' and I believe he may have come up with the phrase cyberpunk.
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3. Tony Bennett
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4. Toni Nadal.
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Tony Bennett is played after home game Giants wins.
One of my nieces is majoring in journalism at SDSU. Cyberpunk's postmodernism seems darker now that the global autocratic movement has embraced the concept of reality being subjective and there being no objective truth, making self-serving lies just alternative facts. Have you read "Snow Crash"?
I remember reading an interesting article on cyberpunk a few years ago:
Neon and corporate dystopias: why does cyberpunk refuse to move on?
Repeatedly reproduced and reimagined since the 80s, the tropes of cyberpunk must evolve or die
www.theguardian.com
5. Tony Scott
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6. Toni Collette
New Category: Actresses
1. Charlotte Rampling
New Category: Actresses
1. Charlotte Rampling
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2. Ingrid Bergman
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3. Kate Beckinsale
It's the 1960s, you've taken pure Sandoz or Owsley LSD, and you walk into an L.A. apartment with two stoned chicks inside:
What happened to Kate's cat between the first and second photo?
www.theatlantic.com
Songs Referring to Him (Owsley Stanley)
"Purple Haze," was purportedly inspired by a batch of acid he distributed at the Monterey Pop music festival in 1967. The Grateful Dead's "Alice D. Millionaire," Steely Dan's "Kid Charlemagne," are both songs where he's directly referenced. Jimi Hendrix can be heard at the end of his cover for BBC of the Beatles' "Day-Tripper," saying "Oh, Owsley, can you hear me now?" reports Rolling Stone.
It's the 1960s, you've taken pure Sandoz or Owsley LSD, and you walk into an L.A. apartment with two stoned chicks inside:
What happened to Kate's cat between the first and second photo?
'King of LSD' Owsley Stanley's Colorful Legacy
Millions of acid hits and Grateful Dead albums later...
www.theatlantic.com
Songs Referring to Him (Owsley Stanley)
"Purple Haze," was purportedly inspired by a batch of acid he distributed at the Monterey Pop music festival in 1967. The Grateful Dead's "Alice D. Millionaire," Steely Dan's "Kid Charlemagne," are both songs where he's directly referenced. Jimi Hendrix can be heard at the end of his cover for BBC of the Beatles' "Day-Tripper," saying "Oh, Owsley, can you hear me now?" reports Rolling Stone.
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4. (Mike B was #3) Elizabeth Taylor
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^^^ According to 23andMe (or was it Ancestry.com?), she's a distant relative.
5. Uma Thurman
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6. If Anne hath a will.....
Anne Hathaway.
Anne Hathaway.
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Things one can only see/do in Australia:
1. Koalas
Things one can only see/do in Australia:
1. Koalas
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2. Shark nets protecting surfers
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3. Tasmanian Devil
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No but it was already on my list to-read.
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4. Vegemite (Should not be allowed outside of Australia)
He just smiled and gave me a Vegemite sandwich
And he said:
"I come from a land down under
Where beer does flow and men chunder
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better, better run, you better take cover"
He just smiled and gave me a Vegemite sandwich
And he said:
"I come from a land down under
Where beer does flow and men chunder
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better, better run, you better take cover"
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5. Golden Gaytime.
Tagline : It’s hard to have a Gaytime on your own
Tagline : It’s hard to have a Gaytime on your own
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6. Uluru, truly a majestic natural wonder that is a spiritual holy place to the original Australian people. Visit on camelback and be amazed!
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2. Ulrich (Torben & Lars)
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3. The Star Trek character Lieutenant Uhura, whose smooch with Captain Kirk was the first interracial kiss ever broadcasted on American television. Sadly, Nichelle Nichols, the actress who portrayed Uhura, has passed on Saturday at age 89.
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4. U-Bahn
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Reggae star, U-Roy
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6. Nietschze’s Ubermensch
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