The Phone Fix

What is really happening in your brain when you use your phone, and how to harness it. We pick up our phones on average 80 times a day, and approximately a quarter of our waking hours are spent in front of a screen. We self-interrupt our work and social lives, forgo sleep, procrastinate important tasks and opt for digital distraction when we're bored or feel uncomfortable. Worst-case scenario, we're told phone use is melting our brains, creating a mental health epidemic and machines are taking over the world. But how much of this is true and what can we do about it? NHS neurology doctor and neuroscientist Faye Begeti explains the science behind why we have formed so many fixed and negative habits around our devices. She reflects on both deliberate choices and automatic behaviours, whilst also challenging myths around digital 'addiction', the harmfulness of blue light and how dopamine functions in the brain. Rather than recommending a quick-fix digital diet or abstinence – unviable for most people and pointless given the way our brain works – The Phone Fix offers a practical guide, based on neuroscientific techniques, on building supportive digital habits. Begeti shows that technology is not inherently bad or frightening and that by better understanding what is happening in our brains, we can replenish our willpower and improve our focus, forming a healthier relationship with our phones – and therefore the people around us.

The fun and easy way to repair anything and everything around the house For anyone who's ever been frustrated by repair shop rip-offs, this guide shows how to troubleshoot and fix a wide range of household appliances-lamps, vacuum cleaners, washers, dryers, dishwashers, garbage disposals, blenders, radios, televisions, and even computers. Packed with step-by-step illustrations and easy-to-follow instructions, it's a must-have money-saver for the half of all homeowners who undertake do-it-yourself projects.

Explains how to upgrade and repair processors, memory, connections, drives, multimedia cards, and peripherals.

The Fix is the most explosive story of sports corruption in a generation. Intriguing, riveting, and compelling, it tells the story of an investigative journalist who sets out to examine the world of match-fixing in professional soccer. From the Introduction Understand how gambling fixers work to corrupt a soccer game and you will understand how they move into a basketball league, a cricket tournament, or a tennis match (all places, by the way, that criminal fixers have moved into). My views on soccer have changed. I still love the Saturday-morning game between amateurs: the camaraderie and the fresh smell of grass. But the professional game leaves me cold. I hope you will understand why after reading the book. I think you may never look at sport in the same way again.

An unshaven, evasive and chastened man in the small old mill city of Norton is recognized as he tries to hide from his past. The man, Jack Webster, is revealed as once having been the fabulously popular host of a nightly televised lottery drawing show, as well as the most renown sports anchor in the city of Boston and the envy of all who knew him. Looking into the past, we see Jack top of the world, but there are dark tidings as Jack’s seemingly perfect life is not quite as wonderful as it appears. Thirty-three years old and submerged in the partying lifestyle of a local celebrity, Jack hatches a scheme to fix the very lottery drawing he hosts on television every night. Back in today’s world, Jack—solely in order to get close to a young woman—cynically joins Earthpeace, a group of environmental activists opposing an airport expansion guided by the long-sitting Senator Shea to the doorstep of the powerless working-class city of Norton. Entirely insincere in all he does and on the cusp of regaining all he’d lost, Jack finds himself at an unexpected crossroad. Triple Six Fix is the dramatic telling—with foreshadow and flashback—of the rise, fall and ultimate fate of Jack Webster, a beloved local celebrity who crashes from great heights and who schemes again to regain what he’d lost.

Will the profusely talented Sanam Khan’s rise to the pinnacle of world cricket be interrupted by the bookies and the powerful match-fixing mafia? Ever since she was fifteen years old, the talented Sanam Khan has only had one dream: to win a world cup for her country. Now, thanks to her own efforts as the captain, her team of talented misfits in the Pakistan Women’s cricket team stand on the verge of realizing that dream. But fate intervenes, and the team’s success attracts the great corruptors of the sport, the match-fixing syndicates that captured the men’s team two decades ago. Will Sanam and her girls succeed where the men failed, or will history repeat itself?

More than 550 step-by-step instructions for everything from fixing a faucet to removing mystery stains to curing a hangover.