I have seen many people asking if there is an easy way to turn on Flight Mode at a specific instance be it time, location based using Tasker on a none rooted Android Nougat phone. The easiest way I found was to use just two Actions that can be added to a specific Task. As well as Tasker you will need to install the AutoInput Plugin from Google Play. After installing both Tasker and AutoInput you need to open Tasker and make a new Profile with your own specific triggers. In this example I will use a time range. This can be used as a Night Time profile so that Flight Mode kicks in at a given time. 1. Open Tasker and on the Profiles page press the Plus “+” key that is bottom right.

2. In this example it’s the time trigger I’m using so in the box that pops up I select “Time”

3. Next select whatever times you want your phone to be in Flight Mode. In this example I opted for a time between 2:30 and 8:00.

4. After hitting the back button on your phone a new window should pop up giving you the option to make a new Task. Click it and in the small box that appears give the Task a name. In this example I called it “NightMode.

5. On the Task Edit screen that opens click the Plus “+” button in the bottom right.

6. In the pop up select “Apps”.

7. On the Apps Selection page make sure “All” is selected in the bottom right and then scroll down until you find “Flight Mode” and click it. Then press the back key to return to the Task Edit screen.

8. You will see the first task has been add to the list. Next click the Plus “+” button again in the bottom right.

9. Select Plugin.

10. Select “AutoInput” followed by “Action”

11. Click the Configuration “Pen” button.

12. Click “Action” and select “Click” and hit the back key.

13. Select “Field Type” and on the next screen select “Text” then hit the back key.

14. Select “Field Text” and type “Off” then click “Ok

15. Click the tick “✅” at the top of the screen.

16. The next screen will look like this.

17. Hit the back key on your phone to take you here.

Now to test it works, press the “Play Button” bottom right.

This screen should pop up.

Tasker should then automatically slide Flight Mode to on.

I also added another line that made tasker return automatically to the Home Screen at the end.

Now in the morning I added an exit task that is exactly like the one above but at Step 14 above you type “On” instead.

Hope this helps a few people.

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Diners in China are overcoming their reservations by flocking to a new toilet-themed restaurant where business is booming.

Customers at the Modern Toilet restaurant, in Kunming, Yunnan province, eat on seats converted from toilets.
Urinals hang on the walls as decorations and signature dishes include ‘excrement ice cream’, ‘toilet bowl hot pot’ and ‘fried poo sticks’.

Owner Xu Liang says the restaurant has proved more popular than expected with students, in particular, keen to try the experience.
“We had a survey before opening, and 20% of people wanted to try it, 60% weren’t sure, while only 20% found the idea unacceptable,” he said. “Sometimes unusual combinations can work. A toilet and a restaurant are complete opposites but combined together they make for a unique experience.”

Regular customer Yang Siwen, a university student, has eaten at the restaurant three times since it opened two weeks ago.
“I originally went in because I thought it was a toilet but then discovered it was a restaurant and decided to give it a try,” she said.

By AFP

BERLIN – A two-metre (six-foot) marijuana plant decorated as a Christmas tree was confiscated from the home of “an old hippie”, who is now facing a drug possession charge, German police said Wednesday.

In a tongue-in-cheek press release titled “All you need is love or how a hippie celebrates Christmas,” police in the western city of Koblenz said they discovered the giant plant in the living room of the suspect.

“The two-metre-tall marijuana plant had been put in a Christmas tree stand and decorated with a string of lights,” the police said.

“When asked, the hashish fan told the perplexed officers that he had intended to add more decorations to the ‘tree’ and place the presents under it, according to tradition.”

Police seized the plant and another 150 grams (5.3 ounces) of marijuana found in the apartment.

German authorities on Tuesday said that a 21-year-old man in the southern city of Munich had been detained with a homemade Advent calendar with cannabis behind each little door instead of chocolate.

The suspect was released but now faces charges of possessing drugs

Spared lashes and imprisonment
By Reuters

KHARTOUM – A Sudanese court convicted seven men of indecency on Wednesday after police accused them of wearing makeup during a fashion show in Khartoum, their lawyer said.
The men, amateur models at the “Sudanese Next Top Model Fashion Show””in June, were arrested by the public order police, a body known for its crackdowns on perceived indecent dress and drinking in the Muslim north, one defendant told Reuters.
All seven were found guilty on Wednesday and each fined 200 Sudanese pounds ($80), as was a woman who faced the same charge for applying the makeup, said lawyer Nabil Adib.
“The court thought that they were indecently dressed … The judge thought that wearing makeup could be offensive for men and allowing a woman to put makeup on men was against the law,” said Adib.
The lawyer said he had argued in court that men, including religious preachers, regularly wore makeup for appearances on Sudan’s state television station.
The defendants could have faced a maximum punishment of 40 lashes and imprisonment, said Adib.
Sudanese U.N. official Lubna Hussein was briefly jailed for wearing trousers in public after being found guilty for the same offence in 2009, a case that drew international criticism.

A wacky winter sport in which pub tables are raced at top speeds down a mountain slope has been invented by a group of boozy students.
The event was dreamed up when the sozzled scholars put their minds to work after finding themselves trapped in a cabin high up an Austrian mountain.To get out of their sticky spot they had the bright idea of flipping over a table and using it as a makeshift sledge.When they got to the bottom they promptly flipped the table over and continued drinking.Now scores of teams comprised of athletes and local celebrities have assembled to take part in a three day table-sledging event in Kuhtai, in the Alps, starting on Friday.One of the competitor’s said: ‘The great advantage we have over other sledgers is that when we finish the race we can turn over our equipment and have a great party’.

A blind man arrested for drink driving in the US is in even more trouble after he allegedly turned up to court drunk and fell over in the dock.

Mark Alan Watson, 41, of Bartlesville, Washington state, fell on his face in front of Judge Russell Vaclaw, reports the local Examiner-Enterprise.

Judge Vaclaw had just asked Watson to approach the bench when he reportedly stood up and paused before collapsing, striking his head on the jury box on the way down.

“Are you intoxicated?” Judge Vaclaw asked. “No, I’m blind,” Watson replied.

The judge asked a Washington County Sheriff’s Office deputy to administer a field sobriety test but Watson said he couldn’t take the test because he was blind. Instead he agreed to take a breathalyser test which he failed.

Watson was originally arrested after allegedly colliding with another car in Bartlesville and then driving off in the early hours of the morning.

He told police he had “felt a bump but was unsure if he had been involved in a collision”, according to court papers.

When asked to take a field sobriety test, Watson reportedly declined, saying: “I’m f***ing drunk. I’m blind anyways and I can’t drive.”

As police were placing him in the back of a squad car, he allegedly yelled profanities and kicked one officer in the knee.

He was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol, leaving the scene of an accident, driving under suspension and assaulting a police officer.