The French may soon be sleeping on the job

A study shows that more than 23,000 people for the last 6 years showed regular naps could reduce signs of heart disease as much as 37 percent,providing a benefitin the same order of magnitude as that linked to lowering cholesterol,eating a healthy diet, or exercising.“If confirmed by other investigations, these results would imply that a siesta could be added to the several means available for the control of coronary heart mortality, like healthy diets or cholesterol-lowering medications,”said Dimitrios Trichopoulos , the Vincent L. Gregory Professor of Cancer Prevention and the study’s senior author. “The magnitude of the effect appears to be considerable.”
Nevertheless,the French office nappers have the perfect excuse as the French Health Minister seeks to improv the work performances with day time naps.The French had been already enjoying a 35 hour work week and vacation, moreover, Now the health minister wants to look into whether workers should be allowed to sleep on the
job.According to the ministry,French workers complain that poor night sleep has affected their work performances.Health Minister Xavier Bertrand added that He will called for further studies and said he
would promote on-the-job naps if they had prove useful.

Cell phones filthier than toilet seats?

Believe it or not, that your hand phones are filthier than your toilet seats? well, this is because germs develop between the heat of your hand phone, Obtaining from your face and hands. The warmth of hand phones draws the development of the bacteria. Hence, you may be at a higher risk from skin irritations to meningitis from your grimy hand phones.
Unfortunately, my phone has been in the ICU for about more than a month due to the water leakage from my water bottle that submerges my bag.hmph!! As a result, something has to be done for those hygienic freaks and clumsy folks like me.. and here’s the solution, The new Fujitsu F703- Japanese only hand phone which is absolutely waterproof and washable that saves our life! You could immerse it in water and it will still be alive and ringing. Hence it is great for bathroom, pool, and raining conversations. Not to mention, No more troubles with phones drowning in toilet bowls and flooded bags anymore!=) In the meantime, be sure to keep phones to yourself and clean it as frequently with anti-bacterial wipes.

Posting video rights online

Recently, the extensively popular YouTube site has been asked to
removed more than 100,000 unauthorized clips from the sharing website
by Media company Viacom Inc., which owns the cable networks MTV,VH1, Nickelodeon and the Paramount Pictures movie studio.
The online search engine, Google is the parent company which is unwilling
to come to a fair market agreement that would make Viacom content
available to theYouTube users. Both You Tube and Google are made
responsible not to provide proper filtering tools to the users. And
thus, they are required to eliminate inappropriate video clips.
In return, YouTube will comply with the request and will cooperate "with all copyright
holders to identify and promptly remove infringing content as soon as we are officially notified."
In fact, they had been threatened to be sued by the Universal Music Group, a division of French telecommunications giant Vivendi SA as they were known to be a center for pirated music videos, but later reached a licensing deal with them last year.
For instance, the video of the execution of Saddam Hussein, it may be very
disturbing to some of us, however If whoever filmed it had surrendered
his hand phone before the execution, the world may never have seen
beyond the mute, carefully-edited, tastefully-faded-out official video of the proceedings.
Oh well, it has been a new debate about human rights video today, what are the limits of human video rights?? Can it be a part of truth, justice and reconciliation??? hmm.. I am sure that each and every one of us has a different perspective about this issue.