It is New years day evening here in New Zealand, and north America is yet to experience this New Year's eve. Hope all here at Communati have a most happy and prosperous New year. No doubt it will be a difficult years economically for us all in the Western world.
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Well its all over for another year. Great time with all the family present. Weather was good, not great but usually improves after Christmas here in NZ anyway.
 
Next up New Year. Just hope the idiots  around don't spoil things for those who wish to get out and enjoy themselves!
 
Happy New years all!
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Its nearly Christmas so I will wish all my Communati friends and readers a very Happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year.
 
Lets have a great blogging Christmas as well.  Lets hope a few old bloggers return.
 
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You would expert the following to be the reverse but researchers claim it to be correct:
 
Research has found that girls who smoke ten or more cigarettes a day as teens, reportedly double their chances of becoming obese later in adulthood.
 
They have waistlines measuring more than 3.5 cm larger than non-smokers researchers claim.  read more »

Outgoing President George W Bush received the ulimate insult in the Arab world when he had a pair of shoes thrown at him by a local journalist at a media conference in Iraq.
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Underdog New Zealand Kiwis Rugby league  team whipped the champion Australian Kangaroo champions in the final of the Rugby league Cup last Saturday night. It was their first win in the cup since its inception 54 years ago
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In one of life's great ironies the three term, nine year, left of centre Labour Party led New Zealand government  turned to the right last weekend. Why? Was there some great policy shift, some significant reason for change, apart from the economic tsunami to hit the world economies? No and no!
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Today is the big day for America. The long election campaign is over; two very good presidential candidates will have to wait for the "peoples voice".
 
There will be the first African American president or female vice-president. One or the other. You all have your own thoughts and expectations, as we do down here in New Zealand.
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I'll ask you this question fellow bloggers. How old really is a teenager?
 
New research that has emerged questions the way society puts the various age groups into little pigeon holes: babies, toddlers, infants, children, teenagers, young adults, middle aged, seniors, geriatric etc.
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In a post on another blogsite a reader commented that I was wrong to link obesity with type 1 diabetes, when it is really  linked to type 2 diabetes. Not so, new research suggests the two diabetes types are one and the same!  read more »