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Some of the world’s largest families can eat a lot of food. One such group has 39 wives, 91 children, and 33 grandchildren. Ziona Chana is the head of one of the biggest families and they all live in a 100-room mansion.
The household is in the Indian state of Mizoram, in the hills of Baktwang village. Chana also happens to be the head of a sect that allows him to have as many wives as he’d like. That also means dealing with multiple spouses and problems as they arise.
The family survives through strict discipline, and a system that spreads responsibility across most of the family. The wives even take turns with their husband. Chana keeps the youngest women near to his bedroom with the older members of the family sleeping further away.
The women have created a rotation system for who visits Chana’s bedroom. “We stay around him as he is the most important person in the house. He is the most handsome person in the village,” Rinkmini, one of Mr Chana’s wives who is 35 years old, said in a statement. Most of the time, the wives sleep in communal “dormitories.”
Chana says he would even go to the US in order to expand his sect, and never stops looking for new wives. One of his children said that Chana marries poor women from the village in order to look after them. It’s a life fit for a king, that’s for sure.
Hong Kong has introduced a minimum wage that is expected to benefit 270,000 low-paid workers, or around 10% of the working population.
Workers will now earn a minimum of HK$28 ($3.60; £2.18) per hour.
The legislation was passed in response to public pressure to narrow the territory’s wealth gap.
But the minimum wage has been resisted by the business community, who say it is too costly.
Business leaders say small businesses will be forced to lay off staff.
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Critics also say the legislation is a departure from Hong Kong’s free-market roots.
With the exception of Singapore, most Asian countries now have a minimum wage or are considering one.
The move is expected to boost the pay of Hong Kong’s legions of street sweepers, security guards and restaurant workers.
“The employers now cannot squeeze the lowest paid sectors of society,” said Lee Cheuk-yan, head of the Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions and a legislator.
Unions had campaigned for a minimum wage of HK$33 an hour and many workers say the wage increase will not cover rising living costs.
The government said it was forced to introduce the legislation after a voluntary minimum wage scheme in 2006 met with a tepid response from businesses.
Even before its implementation, the legislation has led to disputes between workers and employers.
Some employers have re-hired workers on new contracts with unpaid meal breaks and rest days to avoid paying a higher wage bill.
The legislation does not cover the territory’s almost 300,000 domestic helpers, who mainly come from the Philippines and Indonesia.
You knew the list was gonna leak today, sooner or later.
ABC is set to reveal the cast for its forthcoming “Dancing With the Stars” tonight at the end of “The Bachelor.” TMZ, however, is not waiting around.
The website says it has confirmed 6 of the 11 celebrities who will appear on the show – among them Wendy Williams, who had been rumored to be part of the cast; and rapper Lil’ Romeo, who was booked for the show several years ago but injured his leg and was replaced by his father, Master P.
Below is the list of confirmed celebs and their partners, according to TMZ:
Wendy Williams & Tony Dovolani
Lil’ Romeo & Chelsie Hightower
Chris Jericho & Cheryl Burke
Kendra Wilkinson & Louis van Amstel
Kirstie Alley & Maksim Chmerkovskiy
Disney star Chelsea Kane & Mark Ballas
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Beware! Your smartphone is not always your friend. In fact, as the Wall Street Journal’s headline so aptly puts it, “Your apps are watching you.”
An investigation by the Journal surveyed 101 popular smartphone apps for iPhone and Android models and found that 56 of them secretly transmitted the phone’s Unique Device Identifier (UDID) to other companies.
Forty-seven also gave away the phone’s location. And five transmitted age, gender, and other personal details to outside tracking companies. One of the most popular offenders was the Pandora app, which sent age, gender, location, and phone identifiers to various online advertisers through iPhone and Android phones.
“The great thing about mobile is you can’t clear a UDID like you can a cookie,” said one Internet ad network employee. “That’s how we track everything.”
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I Am Grateful for:
1. Financial abundance in all things
2. Healing miracles throughout my body
3. Spiritual love miracles for the human race
4. My Children
5. Ancestors, relatives, friends from the past, present, future,
miracles in my life, here and now.
6. For release of Fear and Guilt from my being
7. Fame & fortune in a lot of areas of my career.
8. Lucky finding sale items.
9. To God for my beingness.
10. Belief in infinite abundance, my love is always met.
SO BE IT, FROM THESE WORDS IT WILL HAPPEN, IT IS DONE.
Word has it that Halle Berry and her actor boyfriend Olivier Martinez – who have been dating since September after meeting on the set of “Dark Tide” – are now living together in Halle’s Beverly Hills mansion.
A source told LOOK magazine: “These two are so in love, they want to spend as much time together as possible. They hate being apart, even for one night if they can help it. They want to be home together, as neither of them particularly likes meeting in hotels.”
Olivier, according to the source, is currently living in Halle’s secluded Beverly Hills mansion. But the Oscar winner – who has a two-year-old daughter Nahla with ex-boyfriend Gabriel Aubry – is reportedly trying to spend more time in her lover’s native France.
“Since they both need to be in Hollywood for work, it made sense for Olivier to move in sooner rather than later,” the source added. “And they love the privacy of her place, although Halle says she can’t wait to get to know Paris better. They are definitely not taking things slowly.”
Strength and Courage
It takes strength to be certain.
It takes courage to have doubts.
It takes strength to fit in.
It takes courage to stand out.
It takes strength to share a friend’s pain.
It takes courage to feel your own pain.
It takes strength to hide your own pain.
It takes courage to show it and deal with it.
It takes strength to stand guard.
It takes courage to let down your guard.
It takes strength to conquer.
It takes courage to surrender.
It takes strength to endure abuses.
It takes courage to stop them.
It takes strength to stand alone.
It takes courage to lean on a friend.
It takes strength to love.
It takes courage to be loved.
It takes strength to survive.
It takes courage to live.
May you find strength and courage
In everything you do
And may your life be filled with
Friendship and Love!
The ancient Chinese New Year tradition of decorating your doorway with Door Guardians and Spring Couplets to ward off evil spirits, has just received new inspiration from a prominent artist dissident. And while it’s struck a sensitive nerve in the Chinese regime, Chinese netizens are delighted with it.
With the Chinese New Year approaching, people in China have been turning to the Internet to purchase traditional Door Guardians and Spring Couplet scrolls, or to get ideas for making their own.
This tradition of hanging Door Guardians and Spring Couplet scrolls on their front doors to keep evil spirits away dates back thousands of years. This year, Door Guardians designed by outspoken dissident and artist, Ai Weiwei, have become a very popular New Year charm for scaring the evil. Chinese Internet censors quickly removed Ai’s blog. But despite their fast action, Ai’s Door Guardians are well on their way to doors all over China.
Old Tradition
The earliest mentioning of Door Guardians can be found in the 2,200 year-old Chinese mythological text “Classic of Mountains and Seas” or “Shan Hai Jing,” in Chinese. The Door Guardians were two ghost hunters who lived in an enormous peach tree on a mountain in the East Sea. They were very adapt in catching evil ghosts and feeding them to tigers.
The legends of the ghost hunters quickly spread, and people started hanging peach wood with the ghost hunters’ names written on it over their front doors, to protect their homes and families from evil spirits. Thus the ghost hunters became the Door Guardians. Later, the peach wood was replaced by paper scrolls with pictures of the Door Guardians and a pair of rhyming New Year blessings, called couplets.
New Meaning
The Door Guardians and couplets designed by artist Ai Weiwei give this old tradition a modern twist that has made them an instant hit with many Chinese netizens.
One of his couplets says: “Eliminate Cruelty and Evil, We Want Fairness–Diminish Ghosts and Demons, We Want Righteousness.”
Another one, freely translated, says: “Kill the Ghosts and Demons, Let Peace be Our Measures–Escape Police and Special-Forces, Here Come National Treasures.”
“National Treasures” refers to new slang terms invented by Internet users aimed at tricking the regime’s censorship software and breaking through the Internet blockade.
The “river crab,” or “He Xie,” is another phrase, and it’s pronunciation is the same as the Chinese word for “harmonious,” which the regime frequently uses such as in “harmonious society” to justify cracking down on any kind of human rights demonstrations.
When designing his Spring Couplets, along with depictions of the Door Guardians, Ai blends illustrations of the grass mud horse and river crab. There may also be a brick hidden somewhere in Ai’s New Year blessings to denote a “fierce battle of words” among Internet users and bloggers, and even an @ sign. All these strange looking characters have a special symbolic significance. They all express an extreme dissatisfaction with the regime’s despotic rule.
Many netizens are delighted with Ai’s Door Guardians and regard them as the perfect vehicle to vent their discontent during the New Year’s festivities. Others are concerned about the consequences if they posted these Guardians on their doors.
One blogger said, “Perhaps the legend is true, the Door Guardians can really make evil shiver.”
Another said, “How to put these couplets up is a problem. You have to worry about how your neighbors will look at you and about the possibility that those women working for the Neighborhood Committee might want to have a talk with you.”