November 8th, 2007 at 12:01 am
Now this one’s a strange story …
Little 10 year old Huang Li was watched by her father as she saw in the chilly southern China river, Xiang River, for three hours on October 2nd with her hands and feet bound! Her father believes the task will help his daughter achieve her dream of swimming across the English channel.
Huang Li managed to swim more than a mile in the river in early October. She traveled with the current as she swam moving like a dolphin through the water.
“Her swimming skills are perfect and she insisted on doing this,” Huang Daosheng said in a telephone interview. The girl, who lives in the city of Zhangjiajie in Hunan province, got the idea after seeing something similar on a local television program, he said.
With the Beijing Olympics less than a year away, sports is grabbing greater attention in an already sports-crazed country. Huang Li’s swim is at least the second time in recent months that a child athlete has drawn media attention.
Huang swam in a skirted swimsuit with her hands tied with string and her feet bound with a strip of cloth. Her face had a blue tinge due to the cold.
“It’s not dangerous because, first, her swimming skills are really good and second, I was swimming with her, staying close to her,” the father said. “I had her when I was 35, so she is my heart. I would never play around with her life.”
The father, a teacher who enjoys swimming, coaches his daughter and said the family does not have enough money for her to have a better coach. The girl started the sport when she was six and her father said her goal is to one day swim across the English Channel.
“She asks me every day, ‘Can I achieve this? Is the English Channel wide? Are the waves really big?’” Huang Daosheng said.
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September 11th, 2007 at 12:57 am
Wouldn’t it be great if there was a debt card that you could use to pay for purchases on the internet or top up with cash and use pretty much anywhere in the world?
Well, there are such debit cards. It’s called the EPAY debit card.
The EPAY Premium debit card is internationally accepted. You really don’t need any other debit cards as this card will be sufficient for all your needs. For example, you can withdraw money from over 1 million ATM machines worldwide, and it can be used for secure online money transfer.
You can use the EPAY debit card exactly like you would your favorite credit cards to make purchases, book trips or pay for service. In fact it’s accepted in all major point of sales.
My wife and I actually do quite a bit of work over the internet. Some companies pay us by check for our services, but most pay online using another popular service. We think that’s great, but we can’t use our money until we transfer it to our bank accounts. There is no debit card with that particular company for international members. I’d love it if we could be paid through EPAY as we’d be able to use the money we’ve earned right away with the EPAY debit card. I’m certain that others who get paid online would love to have access to their money right away instead of having to wait up to a week for it to transfer to their local bank.
EPAY has much more than convenient debit cards. You can visit their online site to make online money exchanges or send or receive money from any country. It’s easy too. Epay can be used via email, SMS or as I said – online.
Another great feature of EPAY is that you can send or receive money from any Country. If you need to send money to a friend, relative or pay a bill you can send money instantly. Did I mention that there are no limits? Some companies only let you send or receive a certain amount of money. That doesn’t happen with EPAY.
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I really do think this is a great service. I think I might create and account and give EPAY a try.
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April 11th, 2007 at 2:05 pm
At the beginning of March a van carrying illicit cargo in Amsterdam crashed and scattered it across the road. Three tonnes of hashish went up in smoke when the Dutch authorities incinerated the illicit cargo from the crashed van.
Detectives hunted for the van’s driver and passenger who fled the scene after the accident. It’s unknown if the occupants were injured. It’s estimated that the pair left behind about $23.5 million dollars worth of goods including the van. Police were busy tracing the van’s ownership but feared that it might have been stolen or leased.
The accident happened during the morning rush hour on a highway outside of the town of Avenhorn, about 30 kilometres north of Amsterdam.
The driver lost control of the vehicle as he or she was heading towards Amsterdam. Witnesses watched the van hit a barrier, flip and crash into another car before coming to a rest. Packages of hash were strewn over the area, and hundreds more were found stacked on wooden pallets in the van.
Marijuana and hash are technically illegal in the Netherlands, but under the country’s tolerance policy, police do not arrest anybody for possession of small amounts. It is sold openly in licensed shops, which, paradoxically, have no way of legally acquiring their chief product.
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