Since I started this smart meter experiment, I've stopped switching the telly on in the day, so another two hours didn't make much difference.
A judge ruled Tuesday against a restraining order that would have stopped Anthem Blue Cross from switching 500,000 Californians to health insurance plans offering no coverage for out-of-network care.
However, over the last 30 years they have stopped fishing and switched to more profitable professions.
The fast-food trash bin, in fact, has proved to be such a consistent and abundant food source that these bears have stopped hibernating altogether, have switched from their natural daytime hunting schedule to an "after hours" foraging routine, and are now beginning to show signs of obesity.
According to state broadcaster CCTV, the country's fireworks manufacturers have taken a hit from the campaign – some have stopped manufacturing fireworks altogether, instead switching to Christmas ornaments and medical devices.
We're told that by the end of September, Christmas manufacturing will have stopped, and the factory will have switched to making Easter and Valentine's Day gifts and trinkets.
Rather than switch BlackBerrys, as he had done in the past, Guzmán now appeared to have stopped communicating altogether.
On the same show the moderate conservative columnist, David Brooks, expressed sensible caution about assuming that stricter gun controls could have stopped this particular shooting.Switching to red-blooded conservative talk radio, I found two hosts offering a "move along, nothing to see here" defence of the status quo.
Nineteen percent had previously dallied with gender switching but had stopped.
"The focus of clubs has stopped being music and dancing, and switched to high-rolling banker and city types with their champagne magnums and sparkler fireworks," she told me.
