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#Friday #FirstAid Tip.The Heimlich maneuver: wait til someone's actually choking. I failed first aid with random acts of Heimlich . via Facebook

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Weight Watchers shares have plunged nearly 30%. For stakeholder Oprah Winfrey that's a $27 million loss. Weight Watchers: shed dollars fast. via Facebook

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People in India are flocking to a temple where a Hindu god is said to help grant U.S. visas. What's weird? The god looks like Donald Trump via Facebook

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Bernie Sanders says his time as a mayor prepared him 'to take on Putin.' Hoping our mayor doesn't hear this. Potholes before Putin. via Facebook

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Got a gift certificate for a day-long spa experience. Pampering to the max. Problem: I don't have a cat. via Facebook

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$21.9 million lottery winner from #KelownaBC was back on the job, as promised, the day after collecting his winnings. If he had a #Vancouv… via Facebook

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$21.9 million lottery winner from #KelownaBC was back on the job, as promised, the day after collecting his winnings. If he had a #Vancouver mortgage to pay I could understand it. via Facebook

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Many #Victoria tent city campers plan to ignore eviction order. "Be a Tourist in Your Own Home Town" campaign has proven itself effective. via Facebook

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#Vancouver bike-sharing program a go. #Unicycle and #hoverboard sharing programs set aside over safety concerns. #Kidding! via Facebook

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Brandon G. Stranzl, Executive Chairman, Sears Canada Inc: “We are working on rationalizing our store network to ensure our core store physical footprint is highly productive.” For all my criticism of the media, I have to give them credit for boiling this one down to an easily-understood: "We're closing 8 stores." I'm not sure whether Mr. Stranzl has children. I'm kind of hoping not. I envision their pleading, innocent question, "Daddy, is there a Santa Claus?" His response would be virtually guaranteed to produce more than simple confusion. Were he to subject his children to a steady string of such corporate gobbledygook-speak, the ensuing psychosis would undoubtedly eventually lead to his children becoming mass-murderers. Envision a rampage starting with their own daddy and progressing all the way to the North Pole. My sympathy to the staff of the eight GTA, Vancouver-area and Moncton Sears staff who will be losing their jobs-- as well as those who will keep their jobs long enough to read more of Brandon G. Stranzl's memos. Dare I throw a further comment from Mr. Stranzl on the store closings? Yes, I must. “Our focus is on converting each and every customer at stores with less efficient footprints into customers of our more efficient and best performing stores.” Does this mean there will be some sort of change in the Sears shoe department? via Facebook

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Brandon G. Stranzl, Executive Chairman, Sears Canada Inc: “We are working on rationalizing our store network to ensure our core store physical footprint is highly productive.” For all my criticism of the media, I have to give them credit for boiling this one down to an easy-understood: "We're closing 8 stores." I'm not sure whether Mr. Stranzl has children. I'm kind of hoping not. I envision their pleading, innocent question, "Daddy, is there a Santa Claus?" His response would be virtually guaranteed to produce more than simple confusion. Were he to subject his children to a steady string of such corporate gobbledygook-speak to his kids, the ensuing psychosis would undoubtedly eventually lead to his children becoming mass-murderers. Envision a rampage starting with their own daddy and progressing all the way to the North Pole. My sympathy to the staff of the eight GTA, Vancouver-area and Moncton Sears staff who will be losing their jobs-- as well as those who will keep their jobs long enough to read more of Brandon G. Stranzl's memos. Dare I throw a further comment from Mr. Stranzl on the store closings? Yes, I must: “Our focus is on converting each and every customer at stores with less efficient footprints into customers of our more efficient and best performing stores.” Does this mean there will be some sort of change in the Sears shoe department? via Facebook

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"Calvary Wine Country.” It's an interesting name for a church, di-vine-ly inspired, even? Well, no. It's because the church is in that part of California known as the Temecula Wine Country. Calvary Wine Country now finds itself in a bit of a fix. It plans to expand, but there's a problem. After the church was built, Riverside County changed the zoning rules on churches in Temecula Wine Country. It seems Pharisees and tax collectors never tire of their meddlesome work. Thus Calvary Wine Country is a big ol' lonely church in a sea of grapes. The local political busy-bodies have apparently forgotten that Jesus' first miracle was turning water into wine. They're also forgotten that a priest, Father Junipero Sera, the "Father of California Wine," planted the first known vineyard in California-- which spawned many more mission vineyards over the years. I happen to think a church surrounded by vineyards is a beautiful thing, bearing in mind that Jesus did tell some sad and frightening parables about vineyards. Riverside County officials seem hell-bent on creating one of their own. Are these taxpayer-funded sour-grapers anti-religious or are they just doing what politicians often to so well? That is, creating a "problem" and then making it appear that they are trying to "fix" it. Or, maybe they're just drunk on the fruit of the vine. via Facebook