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An ancient dinosaur relative is also related to humans—and its DNA may hold the secret to living longer
By Elizabeth Rayne
Credit: Marvel/Disney
The tuatara is old. 250 million years old. That was when this bizarre creature shared its last common ancestor with other reptiles before it evolved further and diverged. It used to be one of of several Rhynocephalia species that crawled across the antediluvian continent of Gondwana, but is now the only one that remains. Its genome links it not only to reptiles (which it most obviously resembles), but also birds and yes, mammals like humans. DNA from this living relic could also be the elixir of life.
"We found out when the tuatara diverged with evolutionary dating, using the amount of genetic change that has occurred between tuatara and its nearest relatives," Neil Gemmel, a professor of anatomy at the University of Otago in New Zealand, who led a study recently published in Nature, told SYFY WIRE. We can calibrate the level of change over time against established genetic splits across the tree of life that have been established from the fossil record and key geological events."
Amniote vertebrates—which either hatch from eggs or develop from an egg in the placenta—are thought to have first appeared 312 million years ago and then branched off into two groups. Synapsids included early mammals and now-extinct reptiles with mammalian characteristics. Sauropsids were once dinosaurs and other reptilian ancestors that have since died out and were replaced with or evolved into birds or lizards, snakes and other extant reptiles. The tuatara has baffled scientists for so long because of synapsid and sauropsid features that could reveal what we never knew about amniote evolution.
Sauropsid and synapsid advantages of tuatara range from extreme night vision to a sense of smell that could identify potential mates just as well as potential prey. It makes you wonder whether this lizard-thing was the result of a superpowered serum.
Tuatara genome published today. Hitting the keyboard briefly between interviews to update on the key findings of this project. This could end up being a long thread. Lovely summary here by @DrRebeccaJ if you want the key points. https://t.co/uZToMQJ5Zw
— Neil Gemmell (@ProfGemmell) August 6, 2020
Tuatara have one of the largest vertebrate genomes ever. There are many repeating elements that are unique to the tuatara, which became an entire phylum of its own after it diverged from snakes and lizards. It shares parts of that genome with turtles, chickens and even humans. Stranger still is that the types of repeating elements in tuatara DNA are closer to mammals than birds or lizards. It has evolved specialized genes for immunity, thermal regulation, odor reception and metabolism.
You can probably see where this is going. Replicating such strong MHC genes in humans could save lives in the future.
Understanding the tuatara's extremely low metabolism and Methuselan longevity could possibly help us extend the human lifespan. Tuatara can live past a hundred years, which makes them the longest-lived reptiles next to some species of tortoise, and there may be a link to certain proteins in its system along with genes that protect them from free radicals. Major histocompatibility (MHC) genes mean that its tissues are compatible with those of many different individuals without an immune response. Could that make living to at least a hundred a thing for humans?
"What we currently know is that tuatara have a few more genes than others species that are known to be protective against DNA damage and cellular aging from work in other systems," said Gemmel. "It therefore seems possible that these gene products may contribute to tuatara's longevity, though it would take quite a bit of work to test if these are indeed protective against ageing. Iff they are there, maybe there will be prospects to develop these into supplements of drugs intended to protect against aspects of aging."
Whatever the tuatara is, it is a window into the deep past that could unlock amazing advances for the future.
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Sea scorpions almost as big as humans were already crawling to shore 340 million years ago
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Residents of California city once known as 'America's foreclosure capital' are set to get monthly $500 stipend, with NO strings attached, in bid to boost local economy
Note: Only 100 people. There have been lots of trials of this idea over the years but it has always proved too costly
Stockton, California will become the first city in the country to participate in a test of Universal Basic Income, in which 100 residents will be given $500-dollars-a-month, with no strings attached.
The program aims to create a level of income that no one will fall beneath.
By providing impoverished residents a regular sum of money that they can use on anything they wish, be it food, clothes, gas, or [drugs] starting a new venture, those behind the program believe it could go a long way to give people enough support to try out new ideas.
The program in Stockton, which was once known as America's foreclosure capital, will see the program launched by 2019, and the payments will continue to the individuals chosen for the program for a full 18-months.
The Stockton UBI program has heavy backing from one of the wealthiest areas of the country- Silicon Valley, according to CNN Money.
The idea is, in part, to off-set the economic distress the growing automation industry is expected to cause to American laborers, as well as a way to potentially reduce poverty.
One of the backers for the Stockton UBI program is Facebook's co-founder Chris Hughes, whose organization, the Economic Security Project, contributed $1 million to the Stockton initiative.
'It is such a fundamental idea behind America that if you work hard, you can get ahead, and you certainly don't live in poverty. But that isn't true today, and it hasn't been true in the country for decades,' Hughes told CNN Money.
'I believe that unless we make significant changes today, the income inequality in our country will continue to grow and call into question the very nature of our social contract.'
One-in-four people in the city of more than 300,000 live in poverty, with the median household income sitting at $49,271, compared to $57,617 nationally.
The city's inhabitants are also largely minorities with 70 per cent identifying themselves as such.
'Stockton is a city that looks a lot like the rest of America,' said Natalie Foster, co-founder and co-chair of the Economic Security Project.
Several heavy hitters in Silicon Valley have touted the importance of exploring funded programs for those living in poverty, such as Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg.
'We should explore ideas like universal basic income to make sure that everyone has a cushion to try new ideas,' Zuckerberg said at a Harvard commencement address in May 2017.
'We have a bunch of folks starting off life already behind, born into communities that don't have a lot of opportunity,' said Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs.
'My mom always used to say, 'You have to get out of Stockton.' ... But I want Stockton to be a place people want to live in.'
And a real fear for cities like Stockton is the 'looming threat of automation and displacement,' as Tubbs puts it.
He says the companies that are building these technologies, like the ones in Silicon Valley, ultimately 'have a responsibility to make sure people aren't adversely impacted and also make their communities better places.'
'I've watched the tech community become very interested in Universal Basic Income for the past several years. I think it stems from one part guilt and one part optimism,' Foster said.
'These are folks who believe in the moonshot, believe in the big ideas, and that nothing is too big.'
Meanwhile existing cash transfer programs such as one in Alaska- where for the past 40-years residents receive varying annual cash payment from oil royalties- are being looked at as an example of the possibilities UBI could hold for under-served communities.
'They use it to save for education, to get them through seasonal changes in their work, or to pay for heating during the winter when that gets much more expensive,' Foster said.
Similar UBI programs have been tested around the world by various organizations such as in Finland, Italy, Uganda, Cambodia and India.
For example in Finland, a monthly stipend of 560 euros was given to 2,000 unemployed people between the ages of 25 and 58. In Cambodia, $5 a month went to pregnant women and children.
'I believe Islam killed my daughter': A grieving mother tells how her daughter cut off all contact with family and friends to marry an older Muslim man who left her on a bathroom floor for FIVE DAYS to die
Siobhann Brown had not heard from her eldest daughter since she called five years earlier saying she was converting to Islam to get married and have her first child. Then two Victoria Police detectives arrived at her door.
Ashlee Brown, 25, had been found dead on her bathroom floor with more than 100 blunt and sharp force injuries covering most of her body.
The mother of three children under five had been bound, gagged and had her long strawberry blonde hair cut off.
Ashlee's husband Mohamed Naddaf, 37, told police he had found his wife in that state in their garage about five days earlier but chose to 'care' for her in the bathroom rather than call Triple 0.
Ms Brown had to run out of her house in disbelief when she heard how her daughter died. She is now faced with Naddaf pleading guilty to manslaughter, without ever going to trial.
'Ashlee was a fun-loving girl,' Ms Brown told Daily Mail Australia. 'She was giving. She was loving. She loved the sun, the beach. She loved singing, dancing, having fun.'
Ashlee had been raised in country Victoria as a 'typical Aussie girl' and gradually grew restless as she hit her late teenage years.
She took increasingly regular trips to Melbourne, once returning to introduce her family to Mohamed Rannaf when she was was about 18. 'She introduced him as "Macca",' Ms Brown said. 'It was very brief.
'He seemed like a nice, very polite, young man. It pains me to say that. I didn't see him again after that.'
There was no communication for some time before a phone call came 'out of the blue' that would herald the end of all contact between Ms Brown and her daughter.
When Ashlee was about 20 she rang to say she was pregnant and wanted her mother's blessing to convert to Islam and marry Mohamed.
'She said to me, "Mum, I need your blessing to become Muslim". She said "I'm three months' pregnant and I'm engaged to Mohamed. I would really like to marry him, mum, and settle down and have a baby".
'I said to her, "Darling, I don't know anything about the Muslim religion. As long as you know what you're doing. 'I said, "Do you have to wear one of those burqas or hijabs? I didn't know what they were called.
'She said, "No mum, only when I go into the mosque because it's disrespectful for a woman to show her face before God".
'I said to Ashlee, "As long as you're making a fully informed decision and it's what you really want".'
Ashlee said that it was.
'There was a pause after that,' Ms Brown said. 'She said. "Thank you, mum". And then her voice seemed to change and she said, "It's Islam". That didn't mean anything to me at the time.
'We said goodbye to each other and we hung up and I didn't hear from Ashlee again.'
Ms Brown said she was convinced the lack of subsequent contact with Ashlee was solely down to her religious conversion and Rannaf controlling his wife. 'I believe Islam killed my daughter,' the 46-year-old said.
'If I could have taken that phone call back I would have not have given her my blessing. I would have said "No, sorry love".
Police initially charged Naddaf with assault and false imprisonment, after paramedics found her dead in the couple's home at Craigieburn, in Melbourne's north, on November 6, 2016.
They later accused Naddaf of killing his wife, but then prosecutors agreed to let him plead guilty to manslaughter.
Italy turns away ITALIAN ship from its ports because it had rescued migrants as anti-migrant minister condemns 'do-gooders'
Italy has turned away an Italian ship from its ports because it had rescued migrants - as the country's anti-migrant interior minister blasted 'do-gooders.'
A commercial ship that supplies oil platforms off the coast of Libya pulled 66 migrants to safety on Monday, but it was told not to bring them to Italy, an Interior Ministry source said.
Italy was sticking to a hardline policy on new arrivals as it presses European allies to share the burden of hosting an influx of displaced people.
Transport Minister Danilo Toninelli, who oversees the coast guard and the country's ports, said the migrants had been transferred to an Italian coast guard vessel on Tuesday after some of them threatened the lives of the Italian crew.
They will be brought to Italy, one source said, though the interior ministry source would not confirm.
The commercial ship picked up the migrants though it had been told Libyan patrol boats were coming to retrieve them, the interior ministry source said.
Meanwhile, Italy's hard-line, anti-migrant interior minister Matteo Salvini challenged the 'do-gooders' who want to open Italy's ports to migrants to visit the San Ferdinando slum in Reggio Calabria.
He vowed to enforce only 'limited, controlled and qualified' immigration as he toured a crime-laden migrant shantytown in the southern Calabria region.
There, he heard of shameless farmers exploiting migrant workers and women being forced into prostitution to get by. Last month, a migrant was killed in San Ferdinando by his former boss.
'The Libyan ports are more than safe and as minister I can guarantee you that the good times are over for the traffickers,' Salvini added during a visit to a camp for migrant fruit and vegetable pickers in the southern region of Calabria.
Salvini has launched a crackdown on migration, closing Italy's ports to aid groups that rescue migrants and vowing to renegotiate the terms of European missions in the Mediterranean to prevent migrants from disembarking in Italy.
The move comes two days before a meeting of European interior ministers in the Austrian city of Innsbruck, where German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer wants his far-right Italian counterpart to agree to take back migrants who arrive at its borders from Italy.
'What is certain is that for Italy there is no plan to take back who has gone abroad. It's the last thing that could happen,' Salvini said in an interview with Il Messaggero newspaper.
'If the Germans and the Austrians are thinking only about sending migrants back to us, helping us close the external borders first would be a step forward,' he said.
Chancellor Angela Merkel's government teetered on the brink of collapse last week as Seehofer's Bavarian conservatives demanded a unilateral tightening of German border controls that she was prepared to concede only in the framework of a European agreement.
Italy's new government, which took office on June 1, has helped thrust immigration back on to the European agenda by closing its ports to humanitarian ships that rescue migrants off the coast of Libya, and it has so far refused to accept migrants sent back from the German border.
Thieves Find Riches in Golden State's Prop 47
Many Californians had high hopes for Proposition 47, a ballot initiative passed in November 2014 with 60 percent voter approval. The measure reduced penalties for some crimes, including certain drug violations, and helped relieve overcrowding in state prisons.
But while Prop 47 succeeded in meeting those objectives, it also triggered a wave of "smash-and-grab" motor-vehicle burglaries and a surge of retail shopliftings. For this reason, Prop 47 has earned the dishonor of receiving Independent Institute's fifth California Golden Fleece® Award, recognition given quarterly to state or local government programs or laws that swindle taxpayers or break the public trust.
By raising the monetary threshold for a felony theft to $950 in property value, up from $500 before the measure passed, Prop 47 lowered thieves' expected cost of criminal violations. Thus, "Prop 47 de-prioritizes justice for California residents and businesses, who are now increasingly victims of vandals and thieves operating with near impunity," writes Independent Institute Senior Fellow Lawrence J. McQuillan, in his new report, California Property Crime Surge Is Unintended Consequence of Proposition 47.
After delving into the damage caused by Prop 47, the report issues several recommendations. These include lowering the threshold for a felony to property valued at closer to the pre-Prop-47 amount of $500. Also, when sentencing a thief, courts should be allowed to consider the total combined value of all stolen property across multiple incidents. Law enforcement should make property crimes a higher priority, pursuing arrests even for small crimes, so that track records of criminal activity are established.
Ultimately, people will help by reporting more crimes when they gain more confidence that law enforcement is taking the problem more seriously. Residents and businesses should also invest more in security technology and use social media to monitor and discourage criminal activity. "Property crimes produce true victims, McQuillan writes. "Californians deserve a legal system that provides true justice."
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{Revelation: Randi Cooley Wilson} {The Keeper of the Alabaster Chalice: Paige W. Pendleton}
{Dear Nobody: Gillian Mccain & Legs Mcneil)
By zapkode.marie On May 28, 2014 · Add Comment · In {Book Review}
I received this book for free from Read for Review in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.
This book may be unsuitable for people under 14 years of age due to its use of language, mental illness, sexual content, drug and alcohol use, and/or violence.
Dear Nobody: The True Diary of Mary Rose by Gillian Mccain, Legs Mcneil
Published by Sourcebooks Fire on April 1, 2014
Genres: Autobiography, Memoir, Mental Illness, Non-Fiction, Young Adult
Source: Read for Review
{Synopsis} –Go Ask Alice was a hoax. But Dear Nobody is a true teen diary so raw and so edgy its authenticity rings off every page
"I am a freak."
The words and drawings of Mary Rose present a gritty, powerful, no-holds-barred true experience of a teen girl so desperate to be loved, so eager to fit in that she'll go to extremes that could cost her her life.
This is not a story about addiction. Or sexual promiscuity. Or cystic fibrosis. It's the story of a young woman with a powerful will to live, who more than anything wants to be heard…and loved.
This compelling, emotional account ensures her voice will not be forgotten.
{My Thoughts} – {Though the Internet existed in 1997 when Mary Rose was in high school, it was not yet accessible to everyone. Most high school kids still wrote by long-hand, passed notes on paper, and called their friends from a landline. Parents couldn't track you via social media. If you were walking alone, at night, in the rain, along a desolate highway, you probably didn't have a cellphone to call for a ride home.}
Mary Rose is an interesting character. She has a way about her writing that just makes you want to instantly fall in love with her. There is no denying just how wonderful of a person she is within this book. She is more or less your typical teenage girl that has typical teen age problems. However, she also has other problems that most teenagers are not forced to deal with on a regular basis.
{And yet, the experiences and struggles that Mary Rose had are no different than the ones teenagers face today: loneliness, shame, sexual insecurity, shyness, depression, bullying, drug and alcohol problems, breakups, divorce, abuse.}
Mary Rose like many teenagers her age and going through any phase in life really just wanted to fit in. When you think about it, when do you not want to fit in, want to have friends, want to be liked by all those around you, want to know that you are accepted. She faced one of the biggest issues being an outsider was that she was too different and no one wanted to accept her for who she was.
{I follow people, hoping for affection, acceptance – a home. From clique to clique, group to group, I follow, only to be kicked aside – and at the end of the day, I am always left alone, droopy-eyed, and miserable – like a lonely, unloved puppy with its tail between its legs, and misery in its heart.}
I remember when I was in high school, grade school even. All I ever wanted to do was be accepted. I was always the oddball out in grade school because I belonged to a family that was more or less considered social outcasts in the town in which we resided. I was always made fun of and when that wasn't the case I was blatantly ignored. When I went to high school I moved to a different town however, the same struggles occurred. I wish they hadn't but they had, I became really shy, kept to myself, focused on homework and ignored most those around me. No one paid much attention to me and I didn't pay much attention to them. I did become friends with this one girl and she and I are still friends to this day 15 years later.
I remember the first guy that paid attention to me as well. Like with Mary Rose and Geoff, it was a guy that was a few grades ahead of me. He paid attention to me when no one else would. I longed for that so much that accepted his affection even though it was misleading. I can relate to how Mary Rose felt when Geoff paid attention to her because that was one thing that she longed for more than anything and it was one thing she felt she deserved in life.
The one thing I cannot relate to in this book is Mary Rose's illness. I have not dealt with a chronic illness nor do I ever wish to, but I do admire her strength throughout her entire ordeal.
{I hate sickness. If one thing in the world could be erased, I'd pick sickness. Then all the money spent on research and healthcare could be used to cure hunger and poverty. After that, it could be used by organizations that would help animals and women, children, or the defenseless. After that, it could be spent on improving the educational system. (And whatever is left over could be used for space exploration).}
Mary Rose had such an understanding of things beyond her years. She knew how things could be done and had an ideal of how to do them. I think if more people had the understandings that she did there would be fewer issues in the world we live in today.
{My friend from the hospital died today. Her name was Jennifer – and like me, she had Cystic Fibrosis, too. Jennifer looked just as healthy as me.}
I actually lost a really close friend to this a few years ago and I watched him get worse and worse. I can only imagine all the pain she went through as an individual dealing with the illness and the pain of losing her close friends.
{The average life expectancy for my type of disease is thirty two years old – and that's if you take care of yourself, which I never do.}
I am sure she would have cared more about herself if those around her showed they cared more about her. It didn't help that her mom put everyone before her and that her dad had walked out on her.
{With Cystic Fibrosis it's different. You cannot run from Cystic Fibrosis. Fighting back at Cystic Fibrosis with treatments and hospitalizations is all – consuming – and in most cases – futile.}
I can understand how she could view it like that seeing as she has rarely seen anyone that was able to beat the illness. The one thing she seems to want more than anything is to be loved, to have someone love her and want her. Despite her illness she wants to be accepted and know that she matters and she doesn't seem to get that. It's said knowing that she didn't get that, but she left behind these wonderful journals that showed what kind of person she was even though she was misguided and lost so often she still had a good head on her shoulders.
I do believe that even though I disagree with all the bad language in this book, many individuals could learn a thing or two from this girl. She had such an interesting outlook on life and a vibrant way of showing it in her writings. She had the ability to pull you into her world through her writing and to help you better understand her and where she was coming from as an individual that was constantly at war with herself, her body and the illness that was destroying her.
{the authors}
{gillian mccain} – is a Canadian-born and educated writer and poet who also attended New York University. She served as editor of The Poetry Project Newsletter, and was Program co-ordinator at The Poetry Project from 1991-1994. With Legs McNeil she wrote Please Kill Me; The Uncensored History of Punk, published to enthusiastic reviews by Grove Press in June of this year. Her poetry has been published in Arshile, lingo, No Roses Review, The World, and elsewhere.
{legs mcneil} – Roderick Edward "Legs" McNeil (b. 1956 in Cheshire, Connecticut), is the co-founder and a writer for Punk Magazine. He is also a former senior editor at Spin Magazine, and the founder and editor of Nerve magazine (print only; 1992).
At the age of 18, disgusted with the hippie movement that seemed to be going nowhere, McNeil gathered with two high school friends, John Holmstrom and Ged Dunn, and decided to create "some sort of media thing" for a living. They settled upon a magazine, assuming that people would "think [they were] cool and hang out with [them]" as well as "give [them] free drinks". The name "Punk" was decided upon because "it seemed to sum up…everything…obnoxious, smart but not pretentious, absurd, ironic, and things that appealed to the darker side". In Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk, McNeil said that the magazine was inspired by two chief influences: Harvey Kurtzman and The Dictators' debut album The Dictators Go Girl Crazy!, indicating that the magazine was started strictly so that its creators could "hang out with the Dictators".
Nicknamed "Resident Punk" in the magazine, he claims (to much dispute) that he was the first person (along with co-founder John Holmstrom) to have coined the term "punk" to describe a certain type of music, fashion, and attitude. He says he came up with the name punk because Telly Savalas used the line "You lousy punk!" on the show "Kojak." According to McNeil: "After four years of doing Punk magazine, and basically getting laughed at, suddenly everything was "punk," so I quit the magazine."
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perhaps the current path of development was unsustainable.
and the recognition that industrialization was causing the planet to burn.
200 years, how do you morally tell a country that they can't do the same thing?
Now to be fair, this tension was identified some years ago.
you did have this concept of sustainable development start to emerge.
but it should be done in a way which is conscious of our impact on the planet.
and that poorer countries are ultimately not penalized.
and the movements behind them rarely spoke to one another.
told rarely interacted with one another.
It was as if the two were completely separate.
and fingers pointing that stalled agreement for a long time.
it was seen as a zero sum game.
and you saw this tension vividly played out in a 2009 Copenhagen climate negotiations.
and emerging countries on the other.
why should we be penalized?
Why should we not have the ability to lift our citizens out of extreme poverty?
what are you going to do to help us meet the expectations of our citizens?
things reached a fever pitch.
out is former Secretary General of the UN Ban Ki Moon.
deals and trade-offs were made.
under Xi Jinping and Obama come together in a landmark agreement in 2014.
developed countries, and actually how in some respects it started to be solved.
developed countries that would allow them to adapt to a low-carbon emission world.
and also adapt to its worst impacts.
around the world looking for a way out of extreme poverty.
finance ministers converged in Washington D.C. in April 2015.
it was called Global Citizen Earth Day.
Some 270,000 people gathered together on the National Mall.
2030 and mitigate climate change once and for all.
simultaneously avoiding the worst effects of climate change.
at the United Nations of the Sustainable Development Goals.
come together in December 2015, in Paris.
and crucially for the first time put a deadline on achieving that goal, 2030.
is a way for ending extreme poverty in a way that does not boil the planet.


What to buy a girlfriend…now there's a question that's bound to come across a guys mind every now and then! Even if you are the most creative gift-giver imaginable, there's bound to be some days when you don't have a clue what to buy your girlfriend. Well, you can relax, because with this list of superb ways to figure out what to buy a girlfriend, I've got you covered. Please keep on reading, and remember, these are only suggestions. Feel free to use your own creativity to take these ideas to the next level if necessary!
One of the quickest ways to figure out what to buy your girlfriend is to have a quick chat with her closest friends. Odds are, she has probably raved to them about the new bag she saw in her favorite store or the awesome paint set she'd love to get her hands on. You can get the scoop firsthand from your girlfriend's besties, just make sure to ask when there is no chance that she will overhear you and foil your surprise!
Now, before you do this, you might want to make sure that your girlfriend is ok with you using her computer. And you should never use this purpose as an excuse for spying on her. But checking Internet history will show you the websites she shops most on, and typically, specific items she is watching. You'll be able to tell what she wants in general, and which websites/stores she loves the most. At the very least, you could give her a gift card to one of those places!
One of my favorite ways to figure out what to buy a girlfriend is to personalize it to her taste. There are many, many different photo products on the market today. Look around her place to see which of her favorite pictures she has on display. Get a copy of one, and use it to order her a personalized photo product, like a mouse-pad, coffee-cup, or water-globe. Be sure to pick an item you know she will use. And don't forget that many things can be personalized, and not necessarily with photos. Engraving, embroidering, and painting are other ways to personalize.
Every girl has a place she would love to visit. Although many of them include Europe or Asia, or some other place that may be unrealistic for you at this point, sometimes a little getaway is all a girl needs! This gift idea for your girlfriend is bomb. All you need to do is pack a picnic meal or order takeout and whisk her off to a local park. If you have more time and money to work with, plan an overnight trip to a nearby city you know she likes to visit, or would like to visit.
There aren't too many girls who wouldn't want the world to know what a thoughtful guy they have. And the best way to show that off is by you making her to feel special! Here is an easy, inexpensive, and very sweet gift idea for your girlfriend. Get a huge poster board, and use it to write a love note on. It can be as long, short, funny, serious or crazy as you want it to be. Just don't write anything embarrassing or personal in it! Then display it somewhere where she won't be the only one who sees it. You could add a flower or some candy if you want to. I'm sure that this idea will go over great!
We all have dear memories of our childhood, but I think that girls sometimes hold on to nostalgic musings more than guys do. So here's a great way to figure out what to buy a girlfriend. Find out a little bit about her childhood. Ask her if there was a certain toy she loved and lost, or something she collected as a child. Maybe there was a toy she always wanted but never got. Now you know exactly what to get for her! Look for collector's items or sets of significant things, such as books, figurines, or even posters that display the item she used to love so dearly as a child.
There's really no better way to figure out what to buy your girlfriend than by simply asking her. Learn exactly what she would love to have or do someday, and make it happen! If you want to keep her a little in the dark about what you're doing, ask her to create wish lists. She can periodically write things down and give them to you, or create online wish lists. Most websites, including eBay, give you the option to make a wish list. One click of a button and you will know exactly what your girl wants!
I hope this handy list has given you a plethora of options and ways to figure out what to buy a girlfriend! Flowers and chocolate are sweet, but they are expected, not to mention cliché. Here's your chance to really dig down deep and find out what your girlfriend really wants! Use these ways to figure out what to buy your girlfriend for big deals like birthdays or Christmas, but remember that the little things matter too. What are your best gift ideas for your girlfriend? Please comment below!


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Kings County Man Charged with Distributing Fentanyl and Methamphetamine Through the U.S. Mail
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Owners of Bergen County Company Admit $3 Million Mail Fraud Scheme
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Hanover Man Pleads Guilty to Distribution of Fentanyl, Cocaine, and Marijuana Shipped Through the Mail from California to Maryland
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Former Postal Employee Charged with Delay of U.S. Mail
NEW ORLEANS – U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that CHRISTOPHER WASHINGTON, age 28, of Houma, was charged on November 19, 2021 in a one-count indictment with delay of U.S. Mail matter…
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No Gunman Found at Batavia High School After Report of Person With Rifle, Officials Say
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No gunman was found at Batavia High School after police responded to a report of a person with a rifle entering the building early Monday, closing the school and placing it on lockdown as officers swarmed the area.
At around 6:03 a.m., police received a report of a male dressed in black and possibly armed with a rifle entering the high school, located at 1201 Main Street in Batavia, Batavia police said in a statement.
The school was evacuated and placed on lockdown at around 6:15 a.m., according to police, who urged all area residents to stay away from the area until further notice.
Batavia Public School District 101 tweeted just after 7 a.m. that no one was allowed in the building due to police activity and that all buses were not operating to Batavia High School.
"If your child has been picked up by a bus, they will be returned home," the district said, adding that all other schools in the district would be in session with bus service.
Nearby Holy Cross Catholic School, located at 2300 Main Street, posted online that the school would be starting late due to the situation at Batavia High School, with a start time yet to be determined.
Batavia police remained on the scene, along with several other law enforcement agencies, including the Kane County sheriff's office for more than two hours. Officers were "clearning the interior of the building in search of the subject," Batavia police said in a statement.
Authorities said just before 8 a.m. that nothing had been located but that the search would continue "until the entire building is made safe."
City officials said at around 8:45 a.m. that no gunman was found and there were no reports of injuries.
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A Canadian actor and comedian has apologized after kissing and licking a CBC Toronto reporter during a live on-air report in an incident the CBC is condemning as "unacceptable."
A CBC Toronto reporter has filed a police complaint after being licked by a Canadian actor and comedian while doing a live television hit on Tuesday evening.
The CBC is condemning the incident as unacceptable, while Boyd Banks, the actor involved, has apologized and suggested he needs help to treat mental health issues.
Chris Glover was at a downtown Toronto comedy club to cover a story on the concerns Canadian performers have about the takeover of a satellite radio station when the incident transpired.
Over the course of about 30 seconds, a man — quickly identified as the Saskatchewan-born Banks — approaches Glover and hangs over his left shoulder. What happens next was captured on video and shared widely on social media; a longer video of what happened, which shows more of the lead-up, is included at the bottom of this story.
Glover, who spoke to CBC Toronto journalist Farrah Merali on Wednesday afternoon, said he could sense Banks standing behind him and could smell alcohol on his breath.
"I could feel something on the back of my neck and on the back of my head … I didn't really know what it was," Glover said.
"Looking back, I knew that it was his tongue and he was licking me."
Glover said what happened made him feel deeply uncomfortable but he wanted to finish the report. "Things are getting a little awkward out here, so I'm going to pass it back to you," he told host Dwight Drummond as he signed off.
Drummond urged Glover to move away from the situation.
Glover told Merali he couldn't see the man when he finished his report, and that he left shortly after because he didn't feel safe staying at the bar.
He said he's filing a police complaint now because he believes it's the most appropriate way to move forward.
Boyd, reached Wednesday afternoon by CBC Radio's As It Happens, apologized for his actions.
"There is no excuse for my behaviour last night. I'm guilty of everything," he said by phone.
"I am an idiot," he continued. "I want to apologize to the standup community in Canada and of course the reporter, who was doing his job."
Banks has previously appeared on shows ranging from CBC's Little Mosque on the Prairie to ABC's Designated Survivor.
On Twitter, where the video has been shared by hundreds, many are posting messages of support for Glover and condemning Banks's actions as assault.
The Canadian Association of Stand-up Comedians, which held the event Glover was covering, issued a statement apologizing to Glover and calling Banks's actions "despicable."
CBC News, meanwhile, says there are protocols in place to protect reporters working in the field.
"Unfortunately, the trend of harassing reporters continues and is something we take very seriously … simply stated, these incidents are as troubling as they are unacceptable," said CBC spokesperson Chuck Thompson in an email.
"Chris Glover showed remarkable composure and professionalism in the face of a very awkward situation."
Reporters in Toronto and across North America have dealt with similar situations, with female broadcast reporters frequently dealing with accosters yelling "f--k her right in the p---y" during live hits.