I don’t know how much to believe of this, I don’t know how much people lie in lawsuits.
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“A manager at a motivational coaching firm in Utah waterboarded an employee with assistance from co-workers and then told employees he wanted them to work as hard at selling as the waterboarded employee did at breathing, according to allegations in a civil lawsuit filed in Utah state court in January.”
link: Motivational Manager Waterboarded Employee to Spur Sales, Suit Alleges
I’m still trying to find an appropriate level of bullshit detector for deciding what is important enough to keep here. This barely made it in.
Even though I’ve been living here for a bit, I sometimes forget or can’t imagine the scale of things in China.
Imagine this, you are looking for a job, you go down to the local job fair along with 20,000 people. Sounds like another day in China.
Check out the picture of a crowd of people mobbing a job fair in Zhengzhou. (Click on it for full size picture).
link: Crying out for a rice bowl
via: FTC Sues Cephalon For Paying Off Generic Rivals
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The FTC contends Cephalon took that step because Provigil is such an important product - the pill generated $800 million last year, or 40 percent of sales. “The prospect of generic competition was a major financial threat to the company,” according to the FTC, which called the payments “purportedly independent business transactions.” But as a result, Cephalon forced patients and other consumers to pay hundreds of millions of dollars more a year than they otherwise would have.
“Cephalon prevented competition to Provigil by agreeing to share its future monopoly profits with generic drug makers poised to enter the market, in exchange for delayed generic entry. Such conduct is at the core of what the antitrust laws proscribe,” says Jeff Schmidt, the FTC’s Bureau of Competition director, in a statement. By making the payments, “Cephalon achieved a result that assertion of its patent rights alone could not.” Here’s the lawsuit.
In a statement, Cephalon defended its action and vowed to fight the suit: “Cephalon stands by the strength and validity of our Provigil patents and the legal basis for these settlements. We are disappointed that the FTC has determined to challenge these agreements as we believe they fully comply with both the spirit and letter of the antitrust laws. As importantly, our settlements confer a meaningful benefit to US consumers by providing for the entry of generic modafinil three years early.”
interesting……
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Because of the ban on red roses, a black market has flowered ahead of Valentine’s Day. Roses that normally go for five Saudi riyal ($1.30) fetch up to 30 riyal ($8) on February 14, the Saudi Gazette said.
“Sometimes we deliver the bouquets in the middle of the night or early morning, to avoid suspicion,” one florist told the paper.
link: Saudi Arabia bans the color red for Valentine’s Day
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In February of 1985, Ugo Vetere, the mayor of Rome, and Chedly Klibi, the mayor of Carthage, signed a symbolic treaty “officially” ending the Third Punic War (which had been supposedly extended by the lack of a peace treaty for more than 2100 years).
link: And not a moment too soon
Old story. Canadian troops are having issues with Taliban fighters hiding in 10-foot Afghan marijuana plants
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“A couple of brown plants on the edges of some of those (forests) did catch on fire. But a section of soldiers that was downwind from that had some ill effects and decided that was probably not the right course of action,” Hillier said dryly.
One soldier told him later: “Sir, three years ago before I joined the army, I never thought I’d say ‘That damn marijuana.’”
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