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Durex is pulling some of its condoms from store shelves after they failed to pass shelf-life tests.
The specific types of condoms in the recall issued Friday are Durex Real Feel Extra Lubricated 10ct condoms and Durex Real Feel 20ct condoms. The company says they failed burst pressure tests.
The company is asking consumers to check the batch numbers on either the box they came in or on the back wrapping of the individual condoms themselves. Health Canada also released a report concerning the same products on Friday.
The company advised there is no safety risk for those who use the condoms, but anyone wishing to get a refund can either return the condoms to the retailer they bought them from or contact Durex directly.
The company added none of their other products are affected.
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Pedialyte, the parental staple for fighting infant dehydration, is now being aggressively marketed for adults who indulge in holiday booze binges. Pedialyte is touting powdered drink packets in cherry and grape flavors. Just add water and experience the Pedialyte Sparkling Rush that will help prevent dehydration caused by vomiting, diarrhea, exercise, travel, and heat exhaustion.
On Pedialytes Twitter, followers have taken to posting pics of their New Years Eve Pedialyte survival kits. Many point to Pedialytes claims that it works better than sports drinks because it contains two times more electrolytes and two times less sugar.
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ENTERTAINMENT
Aquaman snagged $51.55 million in its second weekend of release and over 10 days, the movie has brought in $188.79 million, and will likely exceed $200 million domestically by New Year’s Eve. If so, it will surpass A Star Is Born as Warner Bros.’ biggest domestic release in 2018. Worldwide, Aquaman has grabbed about $750 million.
Disney’s Mary Poppins Returns, meanwhile, held the No. 2 spot, bringing in $28 million. Bumblebee rounded out the top three, snagging $21 million.
The results are in, and Macaulay Culkin is the winner. That’s what people voting on what Macaulay Culkin should change his middle name to overwhelmingly decided in a poll on the actor’s website. So now the Home Alone stars full name will be Macaulay Macaulay Culkin Culkin.
He announced the results in a Christmas Day tweet, in which he said he would legally change his middle name from its current Carson in 2019. Culkin announced the poll to change his middle name in November, and voting was open until Christmas Eve.
Options included the victorious Macaulay Culkin (60,990 votes); TheMcRibIsBack (14,558 votes); Kieran (13,559 votes); Publicity Stunt (9,644 votes); and Shark Week (7,515 votes).
TODAY IS……………….
NEW YEAR’S EVE…..
New Year’s Eve has been celebrated for millennia. Honoring the end of one year goes hand in hand with celebrating new beginnings in the new one.
1907 For 1st time a ball drops at Times Square to signal the New Year
2010 Post-apocalyptic zombie TV series “The Walking Dead” premieres
2017 Cleveland Browns lost 28-24 to Pittsburgh to become only the 2nd team in NFL history to finish season with 0-16 record
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COUNTRY MUSIC NOTE
John Devner was born on this date in 1943. He died in a plane crash in 1997
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Trends We’ll Be Obsessing over in 2019
- Flip phones will make a comeback. By this time next year, an old school flip phone with smartphone technology will be the hottest tech of 2019. But the return of this once antiquated design isn’t about nostalgia — it’s about being practical. One tech expert says “Every person I know has broken the glass in their phone at least once and a folding phone that can protect its face and be half the size is responding to a real need.”
- More companies will try the 30-hour work week. 2019 could be the year when a four-day work week becomes the norm. For one thing, millennials want it. Several recent studies have found that younger workers prioritize “work-life balance” over career advancement. And a recent experiment at a New Zealand firm found that a four-day work week made employees more productive.
- Bite-sized travel will be the new big vacation. Over half of global travelers — 53 percent — plan on taking smaller weekend trips in 2019 instead of big, extravagant vacations that last for a week or more. Just getting out of town for a night is enough, and the short jaunts have partly been fueled by social media. One travel expert says “People like to brag about what they do rather than what they have, micro-trips allow travelers to have multiple experiences,” giving them lots to brag about year-round.”
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TODAY’S GOOD NEWS
We hear the phrase “it’s better to give than to receive” a lot around the holidays. Which is hard to take seriously while you’re unwrapping a new big-screen TV. But according to this, it really is true . . .
Researchers at Northwestern and the University of Chicago teamed up to see what’s better . . . the joy of giving people gifts, or the joy of getting them. And GIVING was the clear winner.
They gave 100 people $5 a day for five days in a row. Each person could either keep the money, or give it away. But they had to do the same thing with it all five days. And if they gave it away, they had to give it to the same person every day.
On the first day, both groups reported similar levels of happiness. But after that, the amount of happiness people got from keeping the money started to drop dramatically.
The level of joy people got from keeping $5 on Day Five was much lower than it was on Day One. But meanwhile, the group that gave the money away continued to derive the SAME amount of pleasure from it, regardless of how many times they did it.
So why was that the case? One theory is that when we receive a gift, we tend to focus on
WHAT we’re getting. And we subconsciously compare it to stuff we’ve gotten in the past. In other words, getting $5 after you already got $5 is somewhat boring.
But when we give, we’re a lot LESS focused on what we’re giving, and more focused on the joy that comes from the act itself.
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BIRTHDAYS
Anthony Hopkins (actor) (81)
Val Kilmer (actor) (59)
Ben Kingsley (English actor, won an Oscar for playing the title role in Gandhi) (75)
Actor/Comedian Gerry Dee 50
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CHRISTOPHER INGRAHAM is a Data Reporter for the Washington Post and he lives in rural Minnesota. He owns a lizard and decided to go online and order some crickets to feed it. What follows in a series of Tweets from the weekend is hilarious………
So, a shipment of crickets for the lizard arrived via FedEx today. It was my first-time ordering bulk crickets off the internet, and I naively assumed that they would be in like, a bag or some other contraption to facilitate easy transfer to another container. They were not.
They were in a cardboard box. And I cut the tape and opened the box and SURPRISE! Crickets everywhere. It was the middle of the workday and I didn’t have time to deal with cricket logistics, so I put the tape back on the box.
And then I put the box in the upstairs bathroom, the only semi-contained place in the house where I knew the kids and the cats and the dogs wouldn’t be able to get at the box.
About 20 minutes later I’m back at work on my computer, and I hear my wife in the kitchen: “where are these damn crickets coming from.” I freely admit I had not kept her fully up-to-date on my cricket purchasing plans.
And at first I was like “okay, maybe one or two got out when I initially opened the box. No biggie.” I kept working. With the benefit of hindsight, this was a mistake.
Eventually I get up to investigate. I say, “So uh the crickets got here toda–” “I REALIZE THAT,” she says. “WHY ARE THEY ALL OVER THE KITCHEN”
I say “That’s a good question. Let me check something.” I walk over to the bathroom. I open the door. There are crickets. Everywhere.
Crickets on the floor. Crickets on the walls. Crickets in the sink. Crickets in the toilet.
For some reason my first instinct is to flush the toilet, as if that will do anything to solve the problem of crickets in all the other places that were not the toilet. I shut the door. “Uh, don’t come in here!”
Of course by this point many had migrated elsewhere. They were in the closet. In the shoes. Making their way downstairs to the playroom. The cats were having what I can only imagine was the greatest day of their lives.
I tried to collect all of them. It was like the world’s worst game of Pokemon. But here we are, roughly 10 hours after the initial catastrophe, and stray crickets are still turning up in odd places.
I make this information public because if I do not send any tweets tomorrow, it is because my wife murdered me after finding a cricket in our bed in the middle of the night. And that’s the news from Red Lake Falls.
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New Year’s Resolutions Last Exactly This Long
Before the first month of the year has even come to an end, most people have given up on their annual commitment to themselves.
Research has discovered that Saturday, Jan. 12, is the fateful day of New Year’s resolutions. After analyzing more than 31.5 million online global activities last January, researchers were able to pinpoint the date when most people report failing their resolution.
According to another study, just 8 percent of people achieve their New Year’s goals, while around 80 percent fail to keep their New Year’s resolutions.
Unrealistic expectations are a big reason resolution failed. But there is hope, it’s just about how you set up resolutions. Researchers found that if exercising was one of your resolutions, then working with others encouraged more activity while joining a club boosted people’s activity 46 percent.
QUESTION…. Do you make New Year’s resolutions?
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RANDOM REPORT
- Our bodies burn about 10% more calories in the late afternoon and early evening than at other times of the day.
- The Rubik’s Cube was originally called the Magic Cube when it came out in 1975. It was renamed in 1980 because they realized a more unique name would make it easier to patent around the world. So it was named after its inventor, Erno Rubik.
- Your heaviest organ is your skin . . . it weighs about 20 pounds. Your intestines are second heaviest, at about seven-and-a-half pounds.
- The name Pepsi comes from the word “dyspepsia,” which means indigestion . . . since its original purpose was to help people with digestion issues.
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MONDAY DECEMBER 31ST
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS
Anthony Hopkins (actor) (81)
Ben Kingsley (English actor, won an Oscar for playing the title role in Gandhi) (75)
Actor/Comedian Gerry Dee 50
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- World Junior Hockey
Last night
Russia 7 Switzerland 4
Slovakia 11 Kazakhstan 2
Canada’s next game is tonight at 8 against Russia
Today’s other games……
Czech Republic vs Denmark (4pm)
Kazakhstan vs Sweden (6:30pm)
NFL
Saturday, January 5
No. 6 Indianapolis at No. 3 Houston, 4:35 p.m. ET (ESPN/ABC)
No. 5 Seattle at No. 4 Dallas, 8:15 p.m. ET (Fox)
Sunday, January 6
No. 5 Los Angeles Chargers at No. 4 Baltimore, 1:05 p.m. ET (CBS)
No. 6 Philadelphia at No. 3 Chicago, 4:40 p.m. ET (NBC)
- No winning ticket was sold for the $13-million jackpot in Saturday night’s Lotto 649 draw.
However, the guaranteed $1 million prize was claimed by a ticket holder in the Prairies.
The jackpot for the next Lotto 649 draw Wednesday will be approximately $16 million.
The winning ticket for Friday night’s $39.5 million dollar Lotto Max jackpot was purchased in B.C. The jackpot for the next Lotto Max draw on Jan. 4 will be approximately $10 million.
- Keith Urban is set to headline Music City on New Year’s Evefor the third consecutive year.
He’ll perform and will be featured on NBC’s New Year’s Eve, which will be hosted by Carson Daly and Chrissy Teigen tonight from 10-11pm ET/PT.
Lauren Alaina will perform during the West Coast celebration of Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest.
She joins Kane Brown, Kelsea Ballerini, and others. The televised celebration takes place tonight beginning at 8pm ET on ABC.
- Police west of Toronto are investigating after a defibrillator was stolen from a bus terminal.
The incident happened Friday afternoon at the City Centre Transit Terminal in Mississauga, Ont.
Peel regional police say a male suspect approached the ticket booth and reported that someone in the parking lot was in cardiac arrest.
Police say the man then removed the defibrillator from its cabinet and fled the scene.
Police are asking anyone with information to contact them.
