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An underground pillow fight club opened its doors to the public this week for those seeking the ultimate “smack down”.
Imitating the iconic Hollywood blockbuster starring Brad Pitt and Edward Norton, more than 100 people joined the club to be schooled on the rules, learn the technique, and battle it out in the ring.
Parents were pitted against their children; friends came to blows; but every participant was trying to make it to the top of the leaderboard.
Points are awarded based on where the pillow strikes the body, with one being awarded for a leg shot, two for a torso shot, and five for the head.
Further events took place in adapted hotel rooms across the UK including Edinburgh, Cardiff and Bristol to celebrate the release of Premier Inn’s best ever pillow.
The new pillows are being introduced across 800 hotels, with as many as 300,000 leftover cushions being used to launch Pillow Fight Clubs across the UK.
Sarah Simpson, head of product at Premier Inn, said: “Pillow fights are one of the few childhood ‘sports’ people can take through to adulthood and still be good at.
“We thought Pillow Fight Club would be the perfect way to use leftover pillows before they are recycled as a way to bring families together to have some fun.
“With the launch of our new pillow in hotels and available to purchase online it seemed like the perfect time to open up the club to the public.”
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The most famous scene from the Hollywood blockbuster, which celebrates its twentieth anniversary this autumn, was recreated to explain the eight simple rules of Pillow Fight Club.
Leading the shot-for-shot remake is the clubs’ very own mini Tyler Durden: the character who was famously immortalized by Pitt in the cult classic movie.
Other than not talking about Pillow Fight Club, other rules include stopping a duel if someone dozes off and limiting the number of bouts to one at a time.
They also stipulate that the “floor is never lava” and that if this is your first fight, “grab a pillow—you have to fight.”
If you want to keep an eye out for a Pillow Fight Club near you, be sure and check out the Premier Inn’s Facebook, Twitter, or Eventbrite page.
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A widely-used gas that is currently produced from fossil fuels can instead be made by an “artificial leaf” that uses only sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water—and it could eventually be used to develop a sustainable liquid fuel alternative to petrol.
The carbon-neutral device sets a new benchmark in the field of solar fuels, after researchers at the University of Cambridge demonstrated that it can directly produce the gas—called syngas—in a sustainable and simple way.
Rather than running on fossil fuels, the artificial leaf is powered by sunlight, although it still works efficiently on cloudy and overcast days. And unlike the current industrial processes for producing syngas, the leaf does not release any additional carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. The results are reported in the journal Nature Materials.
Syngas is currently made from a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide, and is used to produce a range of commodities, such as fuels, pharmaceuticals, plastics and fertilizers.
“You may not have heard of syngas itself but every day, you consume products that were created using it. Being able to produce it sustainably would be a critical step in closing the global carbon cycle and establishing a sustainable chemical and fuel industry,” said senior author Professor Erwin Reisner from Cambridge’s Department of Chemistry, who has spent seven years working towards this goal.
The device Reisner and his colleagues produced is inspired by photosynthesis—the natural process by which plants use the energy from sunlight to turn carbon dioxide into food.
On the artificial leaf, two light absorbers, similar to the molecules in plants that harvest sunlight, are combined with a catalyst made from the naturally abundant element cobalt.
When the device is immersed in water, one light absorber uses the catalyst to produce oxygen. The other carries out the chemical reaction that reduces carbon dioxide and water into carbon monoxide and hydrogen, forming the syngas mixture.
As an added bonus, the researchers discovered that their light absorbers work even under the low levels of sunlight on a rainy or overcast day.
“This means you are not limited to using this technology just in warm countries, or only operating the process during the summer months,” said student Virgil Andrei, first author of the paper. “You could use it from dawn until dusk, anywhere in the world.”
Other ‘artificial leaf’ devices have also been developed, but these usually only produce hydrogen. The Cambridge researchers say the reason they have been able to make theirs produce syngas sustainably is thanks the combination of materials and catalysts they used.
These include state-of-the-art perovskite light absorbers, which provide a high photovoltage and electrical current to power the chemical reaction by which carbon dioxide is reduced to carbon monoxide, in comparison to light absorbers made from silicon or dye-sensitized materials. The researchers also used cobalt as their molecular catalyst, instead of platinum or silver. Cobalt is not only lower-cost, but it is better at producing carbon monoxide than other catalysts.
The team is now looking at ways to use their technology to produce a sustainable liquid fuel alternative to petrol.
Syngas is already used as a building block in the production of liquid fuels. “What we’d like to do next, instead of first making syngas and then converting it into liquid fuel, is to make the liquid fuel in one step from carbon dioxide and water,” said Reisner, who is also a Fellow of St John’s College.
Although great advances are being made in generating electricity from renewable energy sources such as wind power and photovoltaics, Reisner says the development of synthetic petrol is vital, as electricity can currently only satisfy about 25% of our total global energy demand. “There is a major demand for liquid fuels to power heavy transport, shipping and aviation sustainably,” he said.
“We are aiming at sustainably creating products such as ethanol, which can readily be used as a fuel,” said Andrei. “It’s challenging to produce it in one step from sunlight using the carbon dioxide reduction reaction. But we are confident that we are going in the right direction, and that we have the right catalysts, so we believe we will be able to produce a device that can demonstrate this process in the near future.”
When sanitation worker Billy Shelby first saw an older woman trip and fall back in January, he helped the woman because he wanted to do the right thing—but he never expected it to blossom into a lasting friendship that would inspire the nation.
Shelby, who works as a garbageman in Independence, Missouri, had been driving along his usual route when he saw 88-year-old Opal Zucca hit her head as she was trying to take out her garbage can.
Shelby helped her to safety and stayed by her side until she received medical attention. After that, he insisted on taking out her garbage cans every week.
Now, whenever Shelby brings the trash bins up to Zucca’s house, the elderly woman with dementia is always there to greet him with a hug.
Zucca’s daughter Colette Kingston never knew very much about her mother’s friendship with the 50-year-old garbageman until she saw security footage of him and Zucca walking arm in arm up her driveway.
“He demonstrates such care for her,” wrote Kingston. “It takes a village—such a small kind gesture, but leaves an enormous relief for us.”
The video ended up being shared thousands of times until Shelby finally saw the footage on his local news channel—and he says that he was incredibly humbled by the response to the video.
“I was just trying to take the trash back up there and get my hug … that’s it,” he told WDAF as he embraced Zucca with a smile.
He now hopes that his friendship with Zucca will help inspire other people to kind to their neighbor.
“Here I drive a trash truck. That’s it, right? But even with that, I can still be the best person I can be, and it can help somebody through their day,” he added. “I just believe in good energy, man. If you give it out—more than likely—that’s what you’re going to get back.”
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Reading glasses could soon be a thing of the past thanks to a new eye drop solution that can help treat far-sightedness.
Earlier this month, Israeli-based Orasis Pharmaceuticals announced that its CSF-1 corrective eye drop successfully met the primary endpoint in a Phase 2b clinical study in temporarily reversing presbyopia, a very common condition that gradually causes far-sightedness in older adults.
According to the company, CSF-1 successfully demonstrated statistically significant improvement in distance-correction. Not only that, the drops also demonstrated an exceptional safety and tolerability profile.
“The successful completion of the Phase 2b study is a significant milestone for Orasis. We are encouraged by these results and CSF-1’s potential to improve the quality of life for people with presbyopia,” said Orasis CEO Elad Kedar. “CSF-1 can potentially alleviate the burden of reading glasses and offer a meaningful solution for billions of people living with age-related farsightedness worldwide.”
The Phase 2b study was a multi-center, double-masked clinical trial that evaluated the efficacy and safety of the drops in 166 participants across several research centers in the US. The study was conducted on 166 individuals across a number of US medical facilities.
Kedar told Forbes that the drops, which are made out of chemicals that are already found in common eye medications, were shown to immediately reverse farsightedness for a number of hours.
“We now have all relevant preparations in order to start phase 3 as soon as possible,” explained Kedar. “Results have been consistent. We are really excited about the next steps and working to get the full product on the market as soon as possible.”
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It has been 25 years since Zoe Andrews gave away her favorite childhood book to charity—so imagine her surprise when she recently found the very same copy in a museum shop.
Even though Zoe and her sister Hannah loved Frances Hodgson Burnett’s “The Secret Garden” as children, they eventually outgrew the classic novel and gave it to an Oxfam charity shop, leaving Hannah’s name in “hieroglyphics” on the front cover.
The book was then forgotten for about a quarter of a century until Zoe saw a copy of it in the second-hand store at the The Museum of English Rural Life in Reading, England.
Upon picking up and opening the book, Zoe recognized her childhood doodles within the pages and realized it was her own long-lost copy.
The museum had purchased the family’s copy of the book in order to re-sell it, which Zoe promptly bought back for 50 pence.
“I thought ‘oh wow, I had this book,’” recalls Zoe. “As I held it, I just felt like it was my old copy. It’s hard to explain—and probably sounds a bit naff—but it just did.
“I was on my own but I said to myself ‘if this is my copy, it will have some writing on the inside.’ I was thinking this as I turned the page to see my old handwriting, Hannah’s name, and a bunch of symbols which I recognized as being from my hieroglyphic obsession.
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“I stood there dumbfounded. I texted my mother immediately. I thought ‘well, I have to buy it—it’s meant to be.’
“It’s a very bizarre feeling to find something you loved as a child and to think of its journey,” she continued. “How many other children owned and read that book? Did they ever wonder who Hannah was?
“Well, she’s my little sister. I say little, she’s 33 and I’m 35 now. We read these books in the late 1980s and early 1990s but they brought great joy.
“I always loved the story and when I reflect on it now it really is a fantastic story about strength and well-being.”
“The reaction through the museum’s Twitter page has been incredible,” says Zoe. “It has been so lovely to see the reaction of people and so many other stories where old books, possessions have turned up years later. I love the serendipity of it.
“After three weeks of feeling very under the weather, it was a perfect pick me up. And now it’s back on my book shelf, where it will stay.”
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Former NFL running back DeAngelo Williams has paid for over 500 mammograms for women—because, to him, the issue is personal.
He always wore the color pink in his hair, which flowed out from his helmet, during his later years as a player for the Carolina Panthers and Pittsburgh Steelers.
“Pink is not a color—it’s a culture to me.”
He created the DeAngelo Williams Foundation in honor of his mother, Sandra Hill, who died of breast cancer in 2006. All four of her sisters then died from the same disease—all before the age of 50.
He originally chose to pay for 53 mammograms because his mom died at age 53. He called the project #53StrongforSandra.” Since then, they have paid for 500 mammogram screenings for under-insured women in four states—North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Arkansas, all states he has football ties in.
The foundation eventually hopes to host a free mammogram screening event in all 50 states.
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They also help pay for any treatments or follow-up appointments for the patients after their mammograms.
“To be able to help all these women is amazing, he told TODAY. “This can be life-changing for these women (and) we are enabling them to get this care that no one should ever be denied or not have access to.”
He opened his heart during a public service announcement that aired on TV during NFL games for breast cancer month, saying simply, and with pink tips on his hair:
“To all the survivors and the ones that are going through it, we love you. You’re not alone.”
For millions of diabetics, a life without needles or the need to check blood sugar levels throughout the day would be a beacon of freedom unimagined. A project called Continuity might one day break that bondage.
A continuous glucose monitoring and delivery system, Continuity just became a finalist for the international Dyson Award, which uncovers the most exciting designs from recent engineering students that solve a specific problem.
Developed by Frederique Sunstrum, a PhD honors student in industrial design at the University of New South Wales, Continuity’s innovation is all about the seamless connectivity between its many functions. She combined three separate technologies: a wearable chrome “earring” glucose sensor with vibration alert; wireless connectivity that allows data to be sent to cell phones and to a doctor; and an insulin-mist pump, much like an inhaler.
Once this system were to go into production and become available, diabetics wouldn’t have to worry about their blood glucose, or pause their activities to check levels. It uses a continuous glucose monitoring technology (being developed by GlucoWise) that would allow the user to continue with their daily activities and be notified about fluctuations—even during sleep. If levels varied enough to warrant an alert, the earring would vibrate, getting the wearer’s attention, and also send an alert to the app and wake up the wearer that way, too.
The low-energy wireless bluetooth technology incorporated into the system via an app would be able to send regular blood sugar data to a doctor—so, no taking notes with pen and paper or risking error. It can also alert family members in real time, in the case of a dangerous event.
Perhaps the most exciting feature of the Continuity system is the oral insulin spray, invented by Generex, inside a pump designed by Sunstrum. It administers a spray mist directly into the mouth, delivering units of insulin with every pump, according to a digital display. The medicine is then absorbed through the mucosal lining—so, no more injections.
Imagine an asthma inhaler, and you’ll see just how portable and easy it would be to administer insulin. One could use it while walking around, without attracting any attention. However, the pump can only be used by the person it’s prescribed for, as it features a slide-lock to open, and a fingerprint-activated solenoid to spray. The actual glucose canister containing the ingredient is replaceable when empty.
Because of its non-invasive combination of methods for both the monitoring of glucose levels and its delivery system, Continuity was a Gold Winner in the Australian Good Design Awards.
Instead of stopping to check blood sugar manually up to 12 times per day, this system could bring new freedom to some of the 415 million people worldwide who suffer from diabetes by way of its continual solution to a 24/7 problem.
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A talented diver was filmed jumping from dizzying cliff heights in stunning locations all over the world.
Ellie Smart, 23, from Kansas City, is a professional high diver and the youngest currently representing the United States in international competitions.
So far, Ellie has earned a bronze World Cup medal and is a permanent diver on the 2019 Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series.
In a compilation of videos filmed by boyfriend Owen Weymouth, Ellie is seen jumping from vertiginous heights in amazing locations around the world.
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America’s largest trash hauler, Waste Management, Inc, has announced that they are no longer exporting plastic waste outside of North America.
Due to China’s ban on imports of mixed plastic and mixed paper in 2017, and realizing that smaller countries do not have the capacity to handle such a vast volume of the stuff, Waste Management has inaugurated a new policy that no longer allows the shipping of discarded plastic to countries outside North America.
The company reports that it now sells 77% of its recyclables (paper and plastic) to domestic markets, and says, “Plastic exports have dwindled to zero in 2019. No plastics collected on our residential routes… are sent outside of North America.”
The company further states that “where there is no market, we are disposing of this material responsibly.”
In an August 2019 press release, WM said, “The company is working to help establish responsible domestic markets for recycling and beneficial use of these materials.”
According to The Last Beach Cleanup—in a partnership with Greenpeace and the Plastic Pollution Coalition which tracks company policies— other major waste-hauling companies in the U.S. have also ended the practice of shipping plastic abroad. These include Casella Waste Systems, Republic Services, and Waste Connections—along with Advanced Disposal Services, the fourth largest in the U.S., which was bought by Waste Management.
How one views common everyday objects can be a window into how you can experience the beauty of life—either with boredom and blandness, or wonder and creativity.
John Bodnar has been a CNN news cameraman for more than 25 years – and though he is often assigned to cover unexciting political press conferences, he has a knack for finding the magnificence in his surroundings. Over the course of his career in Washington, DC, he has taken time to look up, and capture over 50 photos of chandeliers from directly underneath their lights.
Some of the photos in the series are from hotel lobbies or train stations he encounters during his travel trips to cover the president, but many are captured within government buildings around Capitol Hill (like the one below).
Bodnar, who hails from Pennsylvania, is living a life far removed from his grandparents who went to work in the coal mines immediately after getting off the boat, and illumination was as fancy as a lantern in your hand.
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Within the next few weeks, a rescued tiger that was severely injured in a poacher’s trap will be given new life as the first big cat ever to be fitted with a prosthetic limb.
Sahebrao, a 7-9 year-old male tiger in India, underwent a 40-minute operation earlier this month in preparation for the historic fitting.
The majestic animal was rescued in India from a poacher’s trap in 2012 and was living at the Gorewada Rescue Centre in Nagpur. Soon after, Sahebrao developed gangrene and a part of his injured front leg had to be amputated. For the last six years, Sahebrao has been limping in increasing pain, until this year when it began crying out with every step.
The tiger was adopted by Sushrut Babhulkar, a Nagpur-based orthopaedic surgeon, who has been investigating the possibility of an artificial limb—and he teamed up with experts, including Dr. Peter Giannoudis from the University of Leeds in the UK.
Prof. Giannoudis who specializes in fractures and bone regeneration, is advising the team.
Dr Babhulkar said, “The surgery will give 99% relief from pain to the tiger, and fitting artificial limb is the next step.”
The surgeon told the Indian Express newspaper, “I wish to see him walk normally, like a human being getting a prosthetic leg, for the rest of his life.”
The artificial limb is reportedly being created in consultation from IIT Mumbai, and AO Foundation, Germany, which has expertise in fracture fixation of humans and animals.
It’s fire prevention month and this firehouse in Virginia has come up with a creative way to get kids interested in a firefighting career to ensure the future protection of their community.
A recent addition to their public education program in Martinsville, Virginia is their “fire house” which allows young children to experience putting out a fire.
The idea was borrowed from another department with their permission and built by Lt. Todd Owen (pictured far left).
The idea became a great addition for schools whose classrooms visit to tour the fire station.
All photos by Martinsville Fire & EMS – used with permission
Chief Ted Anderson and Capt. Tim Jamison loved the idea for the project and let Owen create the ‘house’ at which the children could aim a fire hose.
The house was tested by an honorary firefighter, young Quinn Gravely, who highly approved.
“We have some future firefighters in the making!” wrote the team on Facebook.
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The 21-year-old who made headlines around the world for single-handedly running a hotel and caring for its 90 guests trapped along with him during a flood was rewarded in big way by the city of Beaumont, Texas.
Homewood Suites employee Satchel Smith was honored with a proclamation for his heroics during tropical storm Imelda, which included answering phones, cooking, doing dishes, and washing laundry, during a solo shift that lasted over 32 hours.
The young man, who said he was “just doing his job,” also lost his car in the flooding—but, after his marathon of good work, city officials surprised him with a new one, a 2013 Honda Hybrid, during an event.
“I mean it was a bit unexpected—overwhelming!” he told KFDM News. “I mean I don’t expect anything for what I did.”
“I’m truly thankful.”
And, too, so are the guests he catered to, including Angela Chandler, who said Smith handled the situation “with grace, kindness, and a beautiful smile on his face.”
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These jaw-dropping images show a sea filled with thousands of mobula ray fish appearing like large winged birds.
Ocean photographer Nadia Aly spent four hours swimming above the huge shoal in Baja California, Mexico.
Mobula rays, which are closely related to sharks and come from the same family as some manta rays, are normally shy and difficult to film.
“It is very rare to get an encounter like this, with this many rays, in near perfect visibility,” said Nadia.
The 35-year-old from Mountain View, California, estimates that there were over 10,000 rays.
“They were not as skittish as they normally are.”
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Species of this genus are often collectively referred to as ‘devil rays’ or simply ‘flying rays’, due to their propensity for breaching the water, sometimes in a spectacular manner.
Known to local fisherman as ‘flying tortillas’, they gather in their thousands before launching themselves out of the ocean.
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They use their wing-like pectoral fins to reach heights of over two meters before belly-flopping back down into the sea to join the school.
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A team of female soccer players are winning hearts across social media after they were captured on video rushing to the rescue of their opponent during a moment of vulnerability.
The touching scene took place in Jordan earlier this month at the WAFF Women’s Club Championship.
The Shabab al Ordon soccer club had been playing against the Arab Orthodox Club when one of the rival team’s players felt her hijab begin to slip off during playing.
Rather than take advantage of the woman’s wardrobe malfunction, the Shabab players quickly stopped playing so they could huddle around the Arab player and keep her hidden while she fixed her hijab.
The Shabab players went on to win the championship anyway.
But after their act of kindness was shared on Twitter, they won many more accolades for sportsmanship from millions of new fans on social media.
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Opponents huddle up around a Hijabi footballer in order to protect her from showing her hair. pic.twitter.com/O5aC84AhmN
The short list for the prestigious International James Dyson Award has finally been announced, and a critical safety tool for managing seizures has risen into the top 20: Cocoon, a self-deploying, portable safe space for people affected by epilepsy.
The Dyson award invites entries that solve a specific problem—and this particular innovator is intimately aware of the need for this solution because she has the condition herself.
Seizures are a part of life for the 50 million people worldwide that are epileptic, and they have a risk of death 3-6 times greater than the average population.
Many can sense the seizures’s onset, giving them time to find a safe place to lie down. Doctors can only hope they are with a friend or caregiver who can time the seizure, call for an ambulance if it lasts longer than five minutes, and be there to reorient them as the condition subsides.
Uma Smith, the mastermind behind Cocoon says, “I was diagnosed with epilepsy at the age of 11. Since then, I’ve been hospitalized four times—three of them while I was away from a safe space and caretakers.”
Seizure-sensors and protective headgear do exist, but nothing so far has combined all the safety elements into a single device. This new product has all of those requirements, plus more. It integrates soft protection that stays on the head and helps the seizing person stay on their side, plus clear instructions that automatically unfurl for strangers who may want to help, including the person’s name and emergency contact phone numbers.
But what if the person is alone? In this circumstance, Cocoon features GPS to help caregivers find the person, seizure sensors, a timer, automated messaging to alert an emergency contact, and after 3 minutes of seizing, a 911 call for an ambulance. If the seizure ends early, the sensors will detect it and call off the emergency measures automatically.
The Cocoon rolls up and becomes a portable pillow and is compact enough to slide into a tote bag, giving those with epilepsy a new sense of freedom to explore and be out on their own.
The Brooklyn-based industrial designer who invented the device, is also a sculptor and photographer and has designed other innovations combining form and function. Information about her works, including the Cocoon, can be found on her website.
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Does “dinner for two” sometimes mean “you and your device”?
Being alone doesn’t necessarily mean being lonely: even when you’re dining alone, you’re often in the company of your phone—which means you’re in touch with friends and family, with the tap of a screen.
A new survey of 2,000 Americans found that the average adult eats alone during 7.4 meals each week. However, many say it can be a good thing. In fact, the survey revealed that 68 percent of Americans look forward to eating a meal alone.
The top reason Americans eat alone? It’s more relaxing, says 50 percent of respondents. Busy schedules (44 percent) and saving money (38 percent) round out the top three answers.
The new study, conducted by OnePoll on behalf of The U.S. Highbush Blueberry Council, revealed that busy schedules are challenging for Americans in general, and it impacts mealtime is no exception.
The average American says they rush through four meals a week due to lack of time, with two meals being eaten on their feet and/or on the go.
Technology may be changing how we perceive our alone time—and dining beside your phone could be just as good as eating with a friend.
At least half of respondents will partake in some “eat and scroll” for six meals every week, but, two in three (66 percent) say they don’t feel like they’re eating alone when they’re scrolling through their phone.
Keeping our relationships strong doesn’t always require being together physically (though the average person in the poll ate with another person six times a week—one shy of their “solo meals” tally). According to the poll, three in four respondents (76 percent) feel that engaging with their friends and family on social media platforms helps them feel more connected.
“Today, ‘togetherness’ is more of a feeling than a physical state, and people get creative to stay connected,” said a spokesperson for The Highbush Blueberry Council. “The joy of being together – however you manage it – never changes.”
TOP 5 REASONS AMERICANS EAT ALONE 1. I can relax more 50%
2. I’m busy/rushed 44%
3. Want to save money 38%
4. My friends are all busy 37%
5. Allows me to catch up on my TV shows 31%
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