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Wei Wao
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| A Chinese man advertised for a woman to serve as a stand-in for his mistress, so his angry wife could beat her up. He offered 3,000 yuan ($400) for 10 minutes of being pummeled. Ten women have applied. |
I wonder if she gets to fight back?
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Tylen
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Wake up: No a.m. boost from coffee, study says
It's a myth that a morning cup of coffee or tea makes you more alert.
All it's doing is easing the effects of overnight caffeine withdrawal.
That's the conclusion of research headed by Peter Rogers, a professor of
biological psychology at the University of Bristol in England. He
presented those findings today to the British Nutrition Foundation
conference.
"That alertness you feel is you getting back to normal, rather than to
an above normal level," he said. "That morning boost is what people
think is useful about caffeine, but if that doesn't happen, maybe it's
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Tylen
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BEIJING, March 12 (Reuters) - Combining sympathy with discipline, a military-style boot camp near Beijing is at the front-line of China's battle against Internet addiction, a disorder afflicting millions of the nation's youth.
The Internet Addiction Treatment Centre (IATC) in Daxing county uses a blend of therapy and military drills to treat the children of China's nouveau riche addicted to online games, Internet pornography, cybersex and chats.
"I gradually became obsessed," said Li Yanlin, a university student whose grades plunged after he became addicted to Internet games. But after several weeks at the Daxing facility, the 18-year-old said he "recognised the falseness of online gaming".
Concerned by a number of high-profile Internet-related deaths and juvenile crime, the government is now taking steps to stem Internet addictions by banning new Internet cafes and mulling restrictions on violent computer games.
The government-funded Daxing centre, run by an army colonel under the Beijing Military Hospital, is one of a handful of clinics treating patients with Internet addictions in China.
Patients, overwhelmingly male and aged 14 to 19, wake up in common dormitories at 6.15 a.m. to do morning calisthenics and march on the cracked concrete grounds wearing khaki fatigues.
Drill sergeants bark orders at them when they are not attending group and one-on-one counselling sessions. Therapy includes patients simulating war games with laser guns.
The IATC's tough love approach to breaking Internet addiction is unique to China, but necessary in a country with over two million teenage Internet addicts, according to facility staff.
"Many of the Internet addicts here have rarely considered other peoples' feelings. The military training allows them to feel what it's like to be a part of a team," said Xu Leiting, a psychologist at the hospital. "It also helps their bodies recover and makes them stronger".
The IATC has treated 1,500 patients in this way since opening in 2004, and boasts a 70 percent success rate at breaking addictions.
The fees cost about 10,000 yuan ($1,290) a month, nearly a year's average disposable income in China. But the centre takes on pro bono cases for poor families, said Tao Ran, its director.
"There is no trend for Internet addiction as far as social or economic status, or geography, are concerned. So long as they can get access to a computer, there will be addiction," Tao said. |
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tygerwulf
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Do we have any HR players from China that have recently disappeared?
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Seth Ventril
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Thank god I live in America, I can indulge my addictions all I want with little fear of the military kidnapping me.
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Kitae
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well part of the problem there is that they deprive them of any normalcy to begin with so they just cherry pick "Internet Addiction" as a means to deprive them of whatever escape they have from their fanatical dictatorship style authority over their youth.
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HR-Trevor
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Tylen
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A brothel in Germany announced a 50 percent discount to senior citizens. "All clients need to do is show us some proof of age," said a spokesman, adding that the discount only applies during afternoon hours.
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Tylen
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| A University of Vienna study found that when men slept alongside their female partners, they woke up the next day less rested and with impaired cognitive functions. "We were never meant to sleep in the same bed as each other," a sleep expert said. |
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Tylen
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| A Chinese woman survived an accidental plunge off her sixth-story balcony in Beijing when she came down in a deep pile of human excrement. The poop was being cleaned out of a septic tank. |
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Tylen
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Need an alibi? Online company can provide it
By Martin Roberts
TORONTO, May 3 (Reuters Life!) - Skipping work to go fishing or to cheat on your partner? An online company offers an alibi for all occasions, with the defense that anyone misbehaving will do so with or without its services.
The Alibi Network, which has been in business for two years, says it invents, creates and provides excuses and alibis for people who want to justify their absence.
It includes a virtual hotel phone number that will be answered 24 hour a day and virtual airline bookings, complete with e-ticket numbers, hotel reservations and conference details.
"People use us for a variety of reasons, some of course are for infidelity purposes, but they're certainly not limited to that," Helen Tracy, a spokesperson for the Illinois-based company, said in an interview.
"We are merely providing a service and do not encourage infidelity. People who are going to have an affair will do so with or without us," she added.
First-time clients register online or through a customer service number. For an annual fee the company will send an invitation to a sales conference or rock concert, make a telephone call about a work emergency or reservations for a weekend away.
Clients can request alibis to fit their particular circumstances but the cost for customized excuses depends on their complexity, according to the company.
It does not ask why people need alibis or excuses but clients must sign disclaimers. Tracy said the company makes sure requests are legal.
"The Alibi Network is very careful not to engage in illegal activities," said Tracy, adding that the company would cooperate with the police if they had to.
In addition to alibis and excuses, the company also provides discreet shopping services anywhere in the world.
Although the United States accounts for the bulk of clients, the site www.alibinetwork.com has been visited by people from more than 150 countries.
Most clients requesting alibis range in age from 30 to 65 and are evenly split between men and women.
The alibi business has been so good the company plans to open three European offices and will offer excuses in languages other than English. |
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Tylen
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May 4 2007: 3:11 PM EDT
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- In Saudi Arabia gasoline costs about 45 cents a gallon. In Iran it's 33. Venezuelans pay under a quarter. |
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Tylen
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Doctor finds spiders in ear of boy with earache
ALBANY, Oregon (AP) -- These guys were not exactly Snap, Crackle and Pop.
What began as a faint popping in a 9-year-old boy's ear -- "like Rice Krispies" -- ended up as an earache, and the doctor's diagnosis was that a pair of spiders made a home in the ear.
"They were walking on my eardrums," Jesse Courtney said.
One of the spiders was still alive after the doctor flushed the fourth-grader's left ear canal. His mother, Diane Courtney, said her son insisted he kept hearing a faint popping in his ear -- "like Rice Krispies."
Dr. David Irvine said it looked like the boy had something in his ear when he examined him.
When he irrigated the ear, the first spider came out, dead. The other spider took a second dousing before it emerged, still alive. Both were about the size of a pencil eraser.
Jesse was given the spiders -- now both dead -- as a souvenir. He has taken them to school and his mother has taken them to work.
Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. |
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i get why the kid took them to school, but what the crap, why did the mom parade them around too.
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Tao
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This could fit under Stupidity too:
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WASHINGTON - An odd-looking Canadian coin with a bright red flower was the culprit behind a U.S. Defense Department false espionage warning earlier this year about mysterious coin-like objects with radio frequency transmitters, The Associated Press has learned.
The harmless "poppy coin" was so unfamiliar to suspicious U.S. Army contractors traveling in Canada that they filed confidential espionage accounts about them. The worried contractors described the coins as "anomalous" and "filled with something man-made that looked like nano-technology," according to once-classified U.S. government reports and e-mails obtained by the AP.
The silver-colored 25-cent piece features the red image of a poppy — Canada's flower of remembrance — inlaid over a maple leaf. The unorthodox quarter is identical to the coins pictured and described as suspicious in the contractors' accounts.
The supposed nano-technology actually was a conventional protective coating the Royal Canadian Mint applied to prevent the poppy's red color from rubbing off. The mint produced nearly 30 million such quarters in 2004 commemorating Canada's 117,000 war dead.
"It did not appear to be electronic (analog) in nature or have a power source," wrote one U.S. contractor, who discovered the coin in the cup holder of a rental car. "Under high power microscope, it appeared to be complex consisting of several layers of clear, but different material, with a wire like mesh suspended on top."
The confidential accounts led to a sensational warning from the Defense Security Service, an agency of the Defense Department, that mysterious coins with radio frequency transmitters were found planted on U.S. contractors with classified security clearances on at least three separate occasions between October 2005 and January 2006 as the contractors traveled through Canada.
One contractor believed someone had placed two of the quarters in an outer coat pocket after the contractor had emptied the pocket hours earlier. "Coat pockets were empty that morning and I was keeping all of my coins in a plastic bag in my inner coat pocket," the contractor wrote.
But the Defense Department subsequently acknowledged that it could never substantiate the espionage alarm that it had put out and launched the internal review that turned up the true nature of the mysterious coin.
Meanwhile, in Canada, senior intelligence officials expressed annoyance with the American spy-coin warnings as they tried to learn more about the oddball claims.
"That story about Canadians planting coins in the pockets of defense contractors will not go away," Luc Portelance, now deputy director for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, wrote in a January e-mail to a subordinate. "Could someone tell me more? Where do we stand and what's the story on this?"
Others in Canada's spy service also were searching for answers. "We would be very interested in any more detail you may have on the validity of the comment related to the use of Canadian coins in this manner," another intelligence official wrote in an e-mail. "If it is accurate, are they talking industrial or state espionage? If the latter, who?" The identity of the e-mail's recipient was censored.
Intelligence and technology experts were flabbergasted over the warning when it was first publicized earlier this year. The warning suggested that such transmitters could be used surreptitiously to track the movements of people carrying the coins.
"I thought the whole thing was preposterous, to think you could tag an individual with a coin and think they wouldn't give it away or spend it," said H. Keith Melton, a leading intelligence historian.
But Melton said the Army contractors properly reported their suspicions. "You want contractors or any government personnel to report anything suspicious," he said. "You can't have the potential target evaluating whether this was an organized attack or a fluke."
The Defense Security Service disavowed its warning about spy coins after an international furor, but until now it has never disclosed the details behind the embarrassing episode. The U.S. said it never substantiated the contractors' claims and performed an internal review to determine how the false information was included in a 29-page published report about espionage concerns.
The Defense Security Service never examined the suspicious coins, spokeswoman Cindy McGovern said. "We know where we made the mistake," she said. "The information wasn't properly vetted. While these coins aroused suspicion, there ultimately was nothing there."
A numismatist consulted by the AP, Dennis Pike of Canadian Coin & Currency near Toronto, quickly matched a grainy image and physical descriptions of the suspect coins in the contractors' confidential accounts to the 25-cent poppy piece.
"It's not uncommon at all," Pike said. He added that the coin's protective coating glows peculiarly under ultraviolet light. "That may have been a little bit suspicious," he said.
Some of the U.S. documents the AP obtained were classified "Secret/Noforn," meaning they were never supposed to be viewed by foreigners, even America's closest allies. The government censored parts of the files, citing national security reasons, before turning over copies under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act.
Nothing in the documents — except the reference to nanotechnology — explained how the contractors' accounts evolved into a full-blown warning about spy coins with radio frequency transmitters. Many passages were censored, including the names of contractors and details about where they worked and their projects.
But there were indications the accounts should have been taken lightly. Next to one blacked-out sentence was this warning: "This has not been confirmed as of yet."
The Canadian intelligence documents, which also were censored, were turned over to the AP for $5 under that country's Access to Information Act. Canada cited rules for protecting against subversive or hostile activities to explain why it censored the papers.
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Associated Press writer Beth Duff-Brown contributed to this story from Toronto.
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