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Stress relief?

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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?






Oh to be so naive …

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In the year 2003, a Bryn Mawr College student, Janet Lee, attempted to board an airliner with several flour-filled condoms. She claimed that her classmates and she used the soft and squishy condoms as stress relievers. They would give them a squeeze to ease their tension.

She must not have ever listened to the news or read a paper if she didn’t know that drug smugglers tend to fill condoms with cocaine and heroin and use mules who swallow the condoms in order to get the illegal drugs into the Country.

She was astonished when she was arrested at the Philadelphia airport and then jailed for three weeks until the lab could verify that the substance was indeed flour as she had claimed it was.

Unfortunately for the city of Philadelphia she smartened up and strapped them with a lawsuit for wrongful detention and was awarded $180,000 in January, 2007.

You can bet she’ll never make that mistake again!

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Anivive for Dog and Cat stress and depression

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There’s a new all natural product called Anivive that has been made to treat your dog or cat depression, stress and anxiety.

If your pet has been diagnosed with one of these conditions or if you think you beloved pet is stressed or depressed you might want to visit the Pet Friendly Health and learn more about this new medication.

It’s supposed to begin working in just one or two days and with continued over a few months it can clear up signs of stress or depression in your cat or dog.

Published research shows good clinical results with this new pet medication.

Shrimp on a treadmill?

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David Scholnick of Pacific University has a profound interest in how shrimp act when they get an infection. He gauges how they act by by building a tiny treadmill in order to run crustaceans through their paces to measure blood lactate levels.

I have this picture in my head of several shrimp lined up on treadmills with little towels behind their necks. LOL

Scholnick told livescience.com last October “As far as I know, this is the first time that shrimp have been exercised on a treadmill.” To increase the shrimps’ stress, Scholnick designed tiny backpacks out of duct tape but still found that healthy shrimp could go for about an hour without fatigue.

OMG I wish I had a photo of that. Can someone make me a cartoon of shrimp on a treadmill with little backpacks on their backs?

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