How executives deal with stress. In June in Spain about 30 executives were chosen in a contest by NH Hotels to help demolish Madrid’s NH Alcala hotel; they were let inside with mallets and told to have at it.

In London and Tokyo, another option recently became available, according to the Daily Mail: misery clubs (such as Loss in London). Executives can rent rooms and view weepy movies or attend group crying sessions and “tear therapy” to “indulge their inner gloom,” wrote the newspaper.

Hmmm What happened to laughter being the best medicine?

It seems that we keep hearing more and more often about people having problems with drugs, alcohol and even Pain Killer Addiction, don’t we? I don’t know if the problem is becoming worse, or if people are just being more open about the fact that they have a problem and the fact that they’ve gone to rehab to get help.

What do you think?

Certainly the stars seem to be more open about going to rehab these days!

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Yes, literally. Why does this story put songs like Paint it Black (substituting Pink for Black), or Lily the Pink in my head?

Residents of a depressed eastern Indian town are painting it pink in a bid to boost morale and cut crime. Can you imagine a whole city painted pink? I have a feeling that the will either drive the towns people nuts or cause more crime, but that’s just my personal opinion.

Aurangabad, in India’s Bihar state, was a hot bed of Maoist rebel activity, and suffered from killings, extortion, kidnapping, and inter-caste wars says Arvind Kumar Singh, a senior local government official. So instead of fighting the crime and catching the rebels they ordered several cans of paint. Uh huh.

“We are hoping that the color pink, which is soothing and pretty, will erase these blots from the past and make the town look attractive,” Singh said of the initiative, which kicked off in June. I thought the colour green was supposed to be a calming colour and that that was why it’s used in prisons and clinical therapy areas so often? I wonder which shade of pink they choose or if they used many different shades?

The prettier-in-pink concept came from the dominant Rajput community, who moved to Bihar from the western desert state of Rajasthan, whose capital, Jaipur, is known as the “pink city.” So they’re just copying another cities idea?

I wonder if their pets have to wear pink now too? This poor pup doesn’t look very happy in pink:

Do you think that changing the colour of a city will really work to lessen crime? Would you feel calmer surrounded by pink?

Talk to me.