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When it comes to YouTube, you know that there are millions and millions of videos to choose from. The thing is, which particular video should you spend your time to watch? While the common answer that would spring to mind would be cat videos, you might be surprised to hear that Minecraft happens to be the most watched game where YouTube is concerned.

Why are Minecraft videos just so darned addictive? With the virtual Lego game being the most searched-for term, right behind “music”, on YouTube, figures from YouTube video research firms Newzoo and Octoloy did show how Minecraft material managed to rake up over 3.9 billion views on YouTube in March 2015 – and this was for that particular month only.

Basically, Minecraft happens to be a game that one can get easily obsessed with, and whenever you are knee-deep in something, you would want to do all that you can in order to learn more about it, and watching YouTube videos happen to be one of the methods in this day and age. Having said that, just how many hours a day do you dedicate to watching YouTube videos, and out of that figure, have you allocated any to the viewing of Minecraft videos?

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Michigan attorney Jay Clothier is under fire for creating a T-shirt with the name and URL of his law firm on one side and a crude joke about domestic violence on the back.

“You say domestic violence I say spousal discipline,” the lawyer’s shirt proclaims.

“It’s a deliberate attack on women,” Genesee County Sheriff Robert Pickell told reporters during a Tuesday press conference.

“It is the marketing of violence, plain and simple,” Pickell said.

The sheriff had initially posted a photo of the shirt to his Facebook page on Monday and said it is “actively used as an advertisement” by Flint attorney Clothier.

ROBERT PICKELL’S FACEBOOK POST (Story Continues Below)

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“This t-shirt is not in poor taste, it is down-right dangerous,” Pickell said on Facebook. “It markets violence. It says it is OK to hit a woman and if you get arrested in the process … this attorney has your back.”

According to Abc12.com, the shirt has angered the YWCA and the Mid-Michigan women’s advocacy group.

“It’s not only an off-color bit of humor, but we see it as an attack on women and the pain that has been inflicted on them,” YWCA Director Heidi McAra told the news station.

Pickell said he plans to lodge a complaint against Clothier with the Michigan Bar Association.

Clothier acknowledges designing the shirt, but said he did so years ago and never distributed it or used it for advertising purposes.

“A defendant of mine had made that comment,” Clothier told The Huffington Post of the T-shirt’s slogan. “Obviously, it was perverse and sick, but I figured it was his perspective and somewhat provocative, which could get people talking about the issue of domestic violence.”

JAY CLOTHIER: (Story Continues Below)

Clothier said he “never intended to hurt anyone” and ultimately decided not to distribute the shirt.

“I showed it to my friends and they said, ‘Dude, you’ll get crucified,'” he said. “So I opted against using it.”

Clothier said he understands how the intended message of the shirt could be misconstrued. However, he said he is also concerned about the timing of the sheriff’s press conference, which was held nearly 10 years after the shirt was made.

“I think it is retaliation,” Clothier said.

Pickell, according to Mlive.com, held the press conference just days after a preliminary hearing in the case of former Genesee County Sheriff Deputy Gerald Parks, who Clothier represents.

Parks, according to the media outlet, is charged in connection with the 2012 assault of an inmate at the Genesee County Jail. The former deputy is also reportedly involved in a lawsuit against the sheriff’s department, in which he alleges he was retaliated against for testimony he gave during a union collective bargaining-related arbitration hearing that was critical of the sheriff’s department administrators.

“I believe the sheriff is attacking this shirt now because I am representing Parks,” Clothier said. “He is retaliating and attempting to smear me and hurt me economically.”

Pickell did not respond to a request for comment from HuffPost. In an interview with Minbcnews.com, he denied his actions are in retaliation.

ONE OF CLOTHIER’S OTHER SHIRTS: (Story Continues Below)

Clothier said he regrets making the shirt, which he calls a “stupid idea.” He also said it is one of many he has made over the years. Others include:

“Take the fifth we’ll bring the tonic.”

“I went to court with Clothier and it was a riot.” (Printed after a courtroom brawl)

“Reasonable doubt lives here.” (Attributed to Casey Anthony’s former attorney, Jose Baez)

“I make lawyers needles twitch.” (Printed for a polygraph examiner)

“Steve worked on my hard drive.” (Printed for a computer forensics specialist)

“If there are certain things that are happening in the law, I’ll make one for social commentary — to create dialog,” Clothier said.

The attorney said he is considering a civil suit against the sheriff.

“My last name is Clothier,” he said. “I used to work in retail and I’m now a lawyer. The sheriff wants to talk about shirts and I want to talk about suits. You can’t make this stuff up.”

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There is a not so secret, underground of sexual healing for women happening now in the United States and around the world. Let’s face it; sex may run us and it may very well be the gateway for us humans to be whole, creative and happy. Sex is also complicated and hard to to navigate. It’s the one part of us that is very difficult to isolate. Blame it on our wiring. Sex is physical, emotional and psychological. And especially for women with constantly shifting bodies and societal pressures, sexuality can be a land mine

Given that sex is such a charged and vital part of our identities, I am amazed that after centuries of analyzing, opining and investigating, we still do such a lousy job supporting and educating people around their relationship with their sexuality.

I know that now, but when I was in the midst of my own sexual discovery, I had no idea that what was plaguing me had been plaguing women throughout recorded history. My story is not so unusual. I didn’t know that when I was in it. One day I woke up and said, “What’s wrong with me?” After 20 or more years of an enviably successful marriage, I felt disconnected and broken. I overate, overworked and found all sorts of ways to sublimate an unnamable yearning that governed almost every minute of every day. In another time, oh, say, Ancient Greece or Victorian England, the professionals would have said I had a bad case of “Hysteria.”

I wasn’t sure what to do. Countless years of talk therapy ran me smack into a brick wall. Something had to give. The more I thought about it, obsessed really, the clearer it became that I needed to feel beautiful in my body. I wanted to feel sensually alive, sexually vibrant. It had been so long since I had connected to that part of me that I completely forgot it was there. Yet that desire, once I could name it, bubbled to the surface and refused go back into hiding. Instinctively, I reached for touch.

I didn’t set out to ‘cure’ symptoms — the allegedly usual things that afflict mid-life women like low libido, pelvic pain or wildly uncomfortable intercourse. Instead, and far more common, I was seeking to understand my own sexuality and connect with my body. I fell through some kind of a wormhole into California sex therapy history circa 1960’s, ’70s and ’80s. I got naked and began a journey into the land of somatic (a.k.a. “Body Based”) therapy. I climbed on a massage table and got touched — everywhere. I looked in the mirror at my most private parts. I talked about my buried, ‘shameful’ desires. It was terrifying, explosive, healing, fabulous and occasionally funny. I discovered that I didn’t need fixing at all. What I needed was help and guidance figuring out my sexuality, allowing in pleasure and finding fulfillment. I found out that by being seen and honored when I was my most vulnerable, allowing a trusted professional who asks for nothing except to hold my most intimate self was life-changing.

I certainly didn’t have any clue that I tumbled onto the remains and resurrection of what was known in the 20th Century as “Humanistic Sex Therapy.” Before that, it was called other things.

What I was doing stretches as far back as Ancient Greece in “the medical literature.” The Greek physician Galen (c. 129-c. 200), historically, one of the most influential writers on medical subjects, tackled the subject of women’s unmet sexual desire and pronounced it a disease. He coined the term “Hysteria” (Greek for “Suffering Uterus”) to describe the anxiety, irritability, sexual fantasies, pelvic heaviness and excessive vaginal lubrication in sexually deprived or particularly passionate women. In other words, these women were suffering from sexual desire unfulfilled! He coined the term “Hysteria”

Moi? Sexually deprived? Particularly passionate? Me and how many more! Just raise your hands. We’re legion.

His prescription was sex! He often recommended genital massage to be done by midwives. Jump forward several hundred years and “Hysteria” is still with us and doctors are still treating the disease with hands-on genital massage. The occupational injury to their wrists that many doctors suffered in this time-consuming treatment spurred George Taylor, M.D. to invent the vibrator in 1869.

Here we are again — with the culture beginning to get interested in humanistic body based experiences. It never really went away. It just went underground (except in Northern California) where it had been percolating away. And that’s where I found it in 1992, with my own ‘hysterical’ exploration of sexuality. It was there, in the land of the Golden Gate Bridge where a breed of practitioners known as “Sexological Body Workers,” or Somatic Sex Educators were born.

These somatic sex educators are certified in the state of California, have a professional organization and standards of practice. They provide hands-on (one way touch provided while fully clothed) therapeutic full body touch for clients with the purpose of supporting them to find a healthy relationship with their bodies and their sexuality through touch. Programs to certify Sexological Body Workers can now be found throughout Europe.

The humanistic model of supporting people in their sexuality has almost vanished, but like a species on the endangered list, it is beginning to resurface.

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Ryan Reynolds is putting his new Instagram account to good use by finally sharing a photo of baby James. Sort of.

The new dad shared the first snapshot of his daughter, who was born late last year, on Thursday. In the photo, James’ hand can be seen gripping her dad’s thumb.

“Thumb wrestling isn’t always fair. Curiously, my hand is the small one,” he wrote.

Although Reynolds did not share a photo of the baby’s face, Blake Lively told Kelly Ripa and Michael Strahan that she “looks like her daddy” during an April episode of “Live! with Kelly and Michael.”

The actress also regrammed her husband’s pic on Thursday, captioning it: ” …and with that, my husband @vancityreynolds joins Insta.”

Thumb wrestling isn’t always fair. Curiously, my hand is the small one.

A photo posted by Ryan Reynolds (@vancityreynolds) on May 14, 2015 at 9:47am PDT

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It has been over a year since Microsoft released OneNote for Mac and since then the company has been frequently releasing updates for the app to add new functionality, which helped OneNote become one of the top 10 free apps on the Mac App Store. Continuing with that mantra, Microsoft today released a new update for OneNote for Mac which brings the ability to add audio notes.

Microsoft says that this is one of the most frequently requested features by the community, particularly students, who want to have the ability to record and save audio notes in OneNote.

The updated app will also allow users to recover notes that they might have deleted accidently, and view equations created in OneNote for Windows.

Recording audio notes in the app is very easy, just click on Inset and select Audio Recording and the app will start recording. The app can be used to record meetings, conference calls, classes, interviews, what have you.

Any notes the user types while recording will automatically be synchronized to the audio, so users can open the context menu and do a Control-Click to select Play Audio From Here if they can’t quite figure out what the person was talking about when they typed that particular note. The Add Bookmark button can be used to flag an important point that the user might want to come back to later.

OneNote for Mac is available as a free download from the Mac App Store.

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