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China has banned television and radio ads for push-up bras, figure-enhancing underwear and sex toys in the communist government’s latest move to purge the nation’s airwaves of what it calls social pollution.

Regulators have already targeted ads using crude or suggestive language, behavior, and images, tightening their grip on television and radio a few weeks ahead of a twice-a-decade Communist Party congress at which some new senior leaders will be appointed.

The latest move by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, or SARFT, also bans advertisements for sexual aids such as tonics that claim to boost performance in bed.

Illegal ’sexual medication’ advertisements and other harmful ads pose a grave threat to society,” said the SARFT notice, issued in the past week and posted on the administration’s Web site.

“They not only seriously mislead consumers, harm the people’s health, pollute the social environment, and corrupt social mores, but also directly harm the credibility of public broadcasting and affect the image of the Communist Party and the government,” the notice said.

China has already also issued strict rules for TV talent shows, including the banning of “American Idol”-style mass audience voting by mobile phone text message or the Internet.

Regulators have also banned television shows about cosmetic surgery and sex changes, and a talent show that they deemed coarse.

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North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-Il is a big fan of popular South Korean actress Lee Young-Ae and he will receive DVDs of her hit dramas and films as gifts at an upcoming summit, a report said Saturday.

“Chairman Kim likes to watch South Korean TV programmes. Among South Korean entertainers, he favours Lee Young-Ae the most,” an unidentified South Korean official was quoted as saying by the JoongAng daily.

“DVDs of South Korean movies and dramas, including those featuring Lee Young-Ae, will be included as summit gifts,” the official said.

Lee, 36, has a large fan base in Asia. She starred in Dae Jang Geum, a popular TV drama that played a key role in the advent of the Korean Wave, a surge of South Korean pop culture in the region.

Aside from DVDs, South Korea is mulling a cutting-edge home theatre system and DVD players as gifts for Kim, a movie fanatic, who will hold a summit with South Korean President Roh Moo-Hyun in Pyongyang on October 2-4, officials here said.

Kim Jong-Il is said to have a collection of more than 20,000 foreign films in his private library and has reportedly produced several films himself, mostly depicting revolutionary heroes.

His obsession with developing North Korea’s film industry was so great that in 1978 he reportedly ordered North Korean agents to abduct a famous South Korean movie director, Shin Sang-Ok, and his ex-wife, actress Che Eun Hui.

Young-Ae Lee’s Video made by fan on YouTube.com

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A 51-year-old surrogate mother for her daughter has given birth to her own twin grandchildren in northeastern Brazil, the delivery hospital said. Rosinete Palmeira Serrao, a government health worker, gave birth to twin boys by Caesarean section

Serrao decided to serve as a surrogate mother after four years of failed attempts at pregnancy by her 27-year-old daughter, Claudia Michelle de Brito.

Brazilian law stipulates that only close relatives can serve as surrogate mothers. De Brito is an only child and none of her cousins volunteered, so Serrao agreed to receive four embryos from her daughter.

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Unclaimed Baggage and Lost Baggage

During the first six months of this year, the U.S. carriers reporting flight delay and mishandled baggage data posted a mishandled baggage rate of 7.34 reports per 1,000 passengers, up from the 5.86 mishandled baggage rate recorded during January-June 2006.

More than 1 million pieces of luggage were lost, damaged, delayed or pilfered by U.S. airlines from May to July, according to data from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS)

2007 Bureau of Transportation Statistic report

Airline companies say they do their best to get items that are lost, left on board (LOB) and unclaimed to their owners. But after 60 to 90 days they’re sent to a salvage company.

Unclaimed Baggage Center in Scottsboro, Alabama is one of them. It’s the warehouse of the lost and unclaimed baggage from airlines, cruise ships and train companies.

Founded in 1970 by Doyle and Sue Owens as a part-time business, it soon became a full-time venture. In 1978, the Owens incorporated the company and watched it prosper as one of the great ‘hidden’ bargain centers for savvy shoppers.

Unclaimed Baggage Center’s warehouse occupies more than a city block. Over one million items pass through the store annually. This place is known as “better than eBay.com” It attracts bargain hunters from around the world.

Unclaimed Baggage Center
509 West Willow Street
Scottsboro, Alabama 35768
(256) 259-1525

www.unclaimedbaggage.com

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Russian woman’s 12th baby weighs in at 7.75 kg - Yahoo! News

A Siberian woman who gave birth to her 12th child — doing more than her fair share to stem Russia’s population decline — was stunned to find that little Nadia weighed in at a massive 7.75 kg (17.1 lb).
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Nadia was delivered by caesarean section in the local maternity hospital in the Altai region on September 17, joining eight sisters and three brothers, a local reporter said.

“We were all simply in shock,” said Nadia’s mother, Tatyana Barabanova, 43. “What did the father say? He couldn’t say a thing — he just stood there blinking.”

“I ate everything, we don’t have the money for special foods so I just ate potatoes, noodles and tomatoes,” she told the reporter, adding that all her previous babies had weighed more than 5 kg.

The Guinness World Records lists a 10.2 kg baby boy born in Italy in 1955, and a 10.8 kg baby boy who was born in the United States in 1879 but died 11 hours later.

The average weight for most healthy newborn babies is around 3.2 kg (7.06 lb), according to World Health Organisation figures.

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The O.J. Simpson is guilty but not a murderer.
www.theoverlookedsuspect.com

After almost 13 years William C. Dear, internationally renowned private investigator has released his documentary titled, “The Overlooked Suspect” with the intention to build public awareness and ultimately justice through the creation of a Grand Jury in the State of California and the indictment of the “overlooked suspect” for the killing of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman.

Bill’s investigation has resulted in evidence never seen and made public, that identifies a major suspect never to date investigated by the public law enforcement; how the murders happened, producing the potential murder weapon; obtaining the suspect’s forged time card the night of the murders; the suspect’s diaries; a pictures of the black seaman’s cap on the suspect’s head prior to the murders and what possible role O.J. Simpson played in theses murders.

I found this interesting web site after reading O.J. Simpson article on Wikipedia.com If you scroll down, you can read about Jason Simpson theory. The web site contains intro video.

www.theoverlookedsuspect.com

Jason Simpson Theory on Wikipedia

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Carlos Camejo Wakes Up During Autopsy: “The Pain Was Unbearable”

A Venezuelan man who had been declared dead woke up in the morgue in excruciating pain after medical examiners began their autopsy.

Carlos Camejo, 33, was declared dead after a highway accident and taken to the morgue, where examiners began an autopsy only to realize something was amiss when he started bleeding. They quickly sought to stitch up the incision on his face.

“I woke up because the pain was unbearable,” Camejo said, according to a report on Friday in leading local newspaper El Universal.

His grieving wife turned up at the morgue to identify her husband’s body only to find him moved into a corridor — and alive.

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Villagers in southern Peru were struck by a mysterious illness after a meteorite made a fiery crash to Earth in their area, regional authorities said Monday.

Around midday Saturday, villagers were startled by an explosion and a fireball that many were convinced was an airplane crashing near their remote village, located in the high Andes department of Puno in the Desaguadero region, near the border with Bolivia.

Residents complained of headaches and vomiting brought on by a “strange odor,” local health department official Jorge Lopez told Peruvian radio RPP.

Seven policemen who went to check on the reports also became ill and had to be given oxygen before being hospitalized, Lopez said.

Rescue teams and experts were dispatched to the scene, where the meteorite left a 100-foot-wide (30-meter-wide) and 20-foot-deep (six-meter-deep) crater, said local official Marco Limache.

“Boiling water started coming out of the crater and particles of rock and cinders were found nearby. Residents are very concerned,” he said.

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