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Friday, March 24, 2006
Finding drunks in a bar -- what are the chances?
Thu Mar 23, 9:57 AM ET
Texas has begun sending undercover agents into bars to arrest drinkers for
being drunk, a spokeswoman for the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission said on Wednesday.
The first sting operation was conducted recently in a Dallas suburb where agents infiltrated 36 bars and arrested 30 people for public intoxication, said the commission's Carolyn Beck.
Being in a bar does not exempt one from the state laws against public
drunkeness, Beck said.
The goal, she said, was to detain drunks before they leave a bar and go do something dangerous like drive a car.
"We feel that the only way we're going to get at the drunk driving problem and the problem of people hurting each other while drunk is by crackdowns like this," she said.
"There are a lot of dangerous and stupid things people do when they're
intoxicated, other than get behind the wheel of a car," Beck said. "People walk out into traffic and get run over, people jump off of balconies trying to reach a swimming pool and miss."
She said the sting operations would continue throughout the state.
Sunday, March 19, 2006
Study Looks at All the Lonely People
Sun Mar 19, 5:06 PM ET
SUNDAY, March 19 (HealthDay News) -- More than a third of adults say they are lonely, especially people in their 40s, a new study shows.
U.K. and Australian researchers conducted 30-minute phone interviews with 1,289 adults in the state of Central Queensland, in Australia.
They found that 35 percent of the respondents said they were lonely. People aged 50 and older had the lowest levels of loneliness. Levels of loneliness began to rise at age 20 and peaked between the ages of 40 and 49.
People with strong religious beliefs were less likely to be lonely than people who had no such beliefs. Women were more likely to have strong religious beliefs, which may explain why women reported lower levels of loneliness than men, the researchers said.
Retired people were less likely than unemployed people to be lonely, and there was a link between household income and loneliness -- people with lower incomes reported higher levels of loneliness.
The researchers found no significant association between loneliness and how long a person lived in their current community.
"Understanding what makes people lonely is very important, as loneliness can increase the risk of health conditions, such as heart disease and depression, and other problems such as domestic violence," researcher Professor William Lauder, of the University of Dundee in Scotland, said in a prepared statement.
"One of the most interesting findings in this study is that it challenges the belief that retirement is linked to diminished social contacts and that people get lonelier as they get older," Lauder said.
More information
The American Academy of Family Physicians explains emotional health.
Monday, March 06, 2006
The Easiest College Pick-Up
by Xaneus
When you are in the cafeteria, look around. Chances are there is an attractive girl eating alone. Walk over to her table, and ask to join her.
She'd have to be the world's cruelest witch to refuse you.
Once you're sitting and she's eating, you have a captive audience. It's easy to start a conversation from here. Then, when it's time to go, you ask her for her number.
Don't be afraid if she looks busy either... after all, who wouldn't rather talk to a sexy guy like yourself than study?!
Try this! It's almost too easy to believe.
credit sosuave.com
Thursday, March 02, 2006
Do men need body like a Rock?
Women don’t think so even if some guys do
By RIVKA BUKOWSKY
DAILY NEWS WRITER
Think your girlfriend wants you to have a body like Arnold Schwarzenegger or The Rock?
Guess again.
American men increasingly have a complex about their bodies, incorrectly assuming the ladies prefer musclebound physiques, a study in the American Journal of Psychiatry found.
Researchers from the Massachusetts-based McLean Hospital showed pictures of different body types to male college students in the U.S., France, Austria and Taiwan.
Participants were asked to choose the body they would like to have, and the body they thought women in their country would prefer.
According to the study, the average American and European man thinks women prefer men carrying 20 to 30 extra pounds of muscle. But Western women polled actually said they preferred average-sized men.
Taiwanese women also don’t prefer muscular men, but Taiwanese men correctly guessed their preference.
In Asia, the muscular male is not the ideal, the study said. But Western men, bombarded with more and more ads featuring bulked-up physiques, feel pressured to build muscle.
Two percent of Western men have full-blown body-image disorders, the study said, while there are few cases in Asia.
Steroid abuse is another problem mostly confined to Western countries. Men trying to look like the pretrial Jason Giambi are wasting their time, the study said.
For the average American woman, brawn doesn’t matter. The ladies on the streets of New York confirmed that yesterday.
Originally published on February 2, 2005
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/276942p-237244c.html
Sunday, February 26, 2006
The Real Players
by Vassago
Personally, I think the player has a better chance of finding a long term relationship. He meets more women so he has more options to choose from, he has more game so he can get the one he wants, and most importantly, he doesn't come from a place of need.
I know that when I was hooking up with a lot of women I always had long term relationship options. But when I decided to settle down and find someone special, everything seemed to dry out.
I have met all of my past loves at times when the last thing on my mind was a girlfriend. Women can smell neediness a mile away, and I think that is the biggest factor.
Of course there is also social proof, the challenge of taming a bad boy, the primal attraction to a dangerous man, etc., that all adds to the attraction. But at the same time if you go over the edge and become too much of a male slut, it will come back to haunt you.
I have noticed that the guys who get the highest quality women are those guys who you can't really put into a category. Guys who have one woman all of the time, and that one woman changes every couple months, until they find one that they can totally connect with. They always treat these women well, but they don't settle for anything less then the best.
These are the real players. You'll never know it by talking to them, but you will hear the women talk about them because they are dying to be the next in line.
Saturday, February 11, 2006
The Long Term Relationship- The Women's View
Just as a child who isn't getting enough attention will act up to force their parent to give them what they need...women will do the same thing. That is why women test their boyfriends and start pointless fights...it's their way of saying "I need you to give me more attention." And although the dating "rules" tell you not to give women more attention...that rule doesn't apply in a LTR. You DO have to meet the needs of your partner to have a successful relationship just as she needs to meet your needs for sex. Finding the proper balance of the affection and attention you give is the key to satisfying your partner's emotional needs without smothering her. I'm going to share the most simple way to determine what the right balance is for your relationship.
If your partner is testing you, picking fights or doing anything to force you to give her more attention, then you are not fulfilling her core needs. Gradually increase the level of affection and attention you show her...but only slighty. Continue to do this until the testing and fighting stops. The point at which the testing and such stops is the perfect balance she needs to feel loved. Do not go beyond this point in affection/attention because then you risk giving her more than she can handle, which is just as bad as not giving enough.
Remember, feeling loved is to women what sex is to men. You have a clear understanding of how bad it is for a woman to ignore a man's sexual needs. It is equally as bad for a man to ignore a woman's emotional needs.
Source: SoSuave.net
Thursday, February 09, 2006
How to live longer ?
A day have 24 hours, an year 8760 hours.Have you ever asked yourself how mutch time do you realy do what you want durring a day ? I asked myself this question, and the results were bad.I found that durring 24 hours i realy live only a few hours (about 12-14).
I wrote this article on 08.01.2006.I think that we are in a new year and from that year already 8 days are gone.The time pass by so quickly, but let's come back to the title.Have you ever asked yourself how mutch time do you spend eating, sleeping, and doing other "time-eaters" stuff ? I studied a little my time and find out that i spend a lot of hours beeing lazy, sleeping to mutch, and i wasted a lot of time.So i decided to maximaze my time.
So until now i sleept 10 hours a night, so that 10 hours are a waste of time, because
we sleep practicaly we don't do anything, just waste time.I decided to sleep less, so i started to wake up earlyer.Now i sleep 5-6 hours, and i feel great.I have more time to do a lot of things.I started to earn 4 hours a day.4 hours just for me.
Let's make a little calculus !
4 hours x 7 days = 28 hours
What do you say ?! Sleeping only 5 or 6 hours help me earn 1 day and 4 hours to do what i want.Now i feel i live mutch more ! Think how many day's you can earn in a year, day's just for you YOU.
Source: http://necromanc.blogspot.com
