A £1 House in U.K.

Homes in Stoke-on-Trent which can be bought for just £1

More than 600 people are interested in buying rundown homes in Stoke-on-Trent for £1 each, the city council has said.

Thirty-five derelict homes, mainly two-bedroom terraced properties, will initially be sold off in the Cobridge area, with a further 89 to follow.

Under the £3m project, the local authority is offering loans of up to £30,000 to help complete essential repairs on the houses.

Applications opened for potential buyers on Monday.

People have until 12 May to apply for one.

Stoke-on-Trent City Council said the initial 35 homes would be randomly allocated to the successful applicants.

The majority are two-bedroom, but there are also a few three-bedroom houses and possibly some flats.

Anyone applying must have lived in the city for the past three years.

Other criteria they must satisfy include:

    A joint income of £18,000 to £25,000 a year – £30,000 maximum if they have children
    Applicants must have been employed for the past two years
    They must not own another property
    They must have the right to live permanently in the UK
    The new house must be their main home for at least five years

‘Community spirit’

Anyone taking out the £30,000 loan would have to pay it back within 10 years at an interest rate of 3% above the Bank of England base rate, which currently stands at 0.5%.

If the house is sold within 10 years, a proportion of any profit must be paid to the council on a sliding scale.

In return for buying the properties, people will be required to renovate them and bring them back into use.

Councillor Janine Bridges, responsible for housing, said the scheme would “see a rundown area of the city transformed”.

She added: “The project will not only benefit the residents who are currently living next door to properties that have been vacant for some time, it will also give families moving into the homes the chance to take their first step on the property ladder.”

The council said it hoped to “build a community spirit” in the area and create “thriving neighbourhoods”.

However, Steph Dunn-Fox, from Stoke-on-Trent-based estate agents findahomeonline.co.uk, said Cobridge was presently an unattractive area for home buyers and was “full of empty homes”.

She said: “I think it’s a great idea in principle and they’re probably thinking it’ll appeal most to first-time buyers.

“It’s the sort of area and offer that could appeal to property developers, but they’re excluded from this.

“It’s difficult – unless you’re from the area, who wants to live on a rundown street, carry out a lot of work and know you have to stay there for at least five years?”

She said she could see a typical terrace house redeveloped in a good condition reaching a maximum of £55,000 to £60,000 on the market.

Last month, Liverpool City Council said more than 2,000 people had been in touch about buying 20 homes there during the week they were on offer for £1.

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How To Suicide in MARS ! Wanted Volunteers!

I'm Sending Four People to Mars for the Rest of Their Lives

Space travel has always been tainted with a few big, unavoidable problems for me. The first is that I spent all three years of my university career occasionally learning what Foucault thinks about reality television, rather than anything vaguely scientific that would teach me how to launch myself through earth's atmosphere without dying immediately. The second is that everything is just so staggeringly, unfathomably far away. The half hour commute to work is bad enough; three days to get to a pretty nondescript floating hunk of rock just seems pointless and like a massive waste of time that could be spent not crowded up in a little shuttle hurtling through the sky.

Although, I suppose if there was an exciting prospect at the end of the journey I wouldn't mind so much. Like a new, ready-made home for me to spend the rest of my years, for example. Dutch entrepreneur Bas Lansdorp is going to be furnishing those exact dreams with his Mars One project, which aims to build a liveable settlement on Mars, before sending four humans to live there for the rest of their lives in 2023, followed by more batches of people as the years go on, living there for the REST of their lives.        

Besides that minor detail, his project is remarkable in that it aims to raise the majority of its funding through creating the biggest media spectacle the world has ever known – covering every stage of the project and allowing viewers to vote on who gets to take the trip – rather than relying on governments and having to deal with any kind of political interference. I met Bas for a drink to talk about his plans.

 VICE: So tell me what sparked this whole idea of sending people to live the rest of their lives on Mars.
Bas Lansdorp: I was originally inspired around 15 years ago when the first rover landed on Mars. I basically thought it'd be much cooler if humans were walking up on Mars, rather than the machine. I always wanted to go myself and knew I didn't stand a chance if I went through the normal NASA or European Space Agency (ESA) procedures, but I kind of forgot about the idea when I started studying mechanical engineering. Then, a few years later, someone told me that the Americans were planning a one-way trip to Mars – which is so much more feasible than a return mission – so I decided to drop everything and go for it.

What were you doing at the time?
I was working at a company, but I sold half my shares to get things going. Then John de Mol, the inventor of Big Brother, told me I could finance the project through the media, so I thought 'I really have to take this chance now.' I mean, it's extremely complex, but I have to take the risk and do it.

Yeah, it's interesting that you're planning on funding the whole project with media money.
Well, we have other revenue ideas, of course, but yeah – we need to finance a lot of things before we can send any humans out to Mars and creating a media spectacle is a good way to do that. I'll just add that it's not my main goal to create a media spectacle, though. There are much easier ways of doing that than sending humans on a one-way mission to Mars.

 Ha, yeah I assume there probably are. How much is it going to cost?
It's going to be £3.8 billion to set it up, then another £630 million for each one of the four astronauts. I initially thought that number was unrealistically high, but the International Olympic Committee had a revenue of one or two billion pounds for one three-week-long event, so that's half a billion a week, which makes our numbers not look too bad.

Literally everybody who has access to internet or TV will watch it and, by that time, nearly four billion people will have the internet, so imagine being the brand that sponsors an event like that. You'll immediately have the biggest name on the planet.  It's a lot of money, but I'm very entrepreneurial and also very down to earth, so I wouldn't do it if I didn't believe it was possible.

Cool. So what's the process? What's being sent up first?
We've got a demonstration mission in 2016 to show the technology that we've purchased, which is where we'll send a communications satellite to Mars, then, in 2018, we'll send a rover up to find the best location for the settlement.   

What factors determine a good place for a settlement?
It's got to be north enough to have a good amount of water crystals in the soil and south enough for the solar panels to be effective. It's gonna be on the northern hemisphere because the seasons are less extreme there. But it's also got to be as low as possible in altitude, because Mars has a very thin atmosphere and the lower down you go, the more time you'll have to slow down and land safely.

 And everything is going to be ready built for the humans' arrival, right?
Yeah, everything will land in big pre-built components that will be assembled by the rovers. There'll be two capsules for the life support system, two capsules for the living units and two capsules with supplies.   

Nice. Is it right that the astronauts are being picked with a lottery system?
No, that was just something some news show said. The way we're doing it is to have our experts determine who's suitable from those who apply, then we'll ask the audience who they want to send to Mars. The people picked will be the world's first ambassadors to Mars, so it's important that the general public have their say.

What would be your perfect candidate?
Well, when I started, I thought we'd need doctors and engineers, but the most important thing is actually the person's personality. You need someone who's capable of sitting in a very small vehicle for the seven month journey, then able to cope mentally with leaving earth behind. The medical and engineering aspects are obviously very important, too, but we'll train them in those for the eight years before they leave, so it's the personality that's the most crucial thing. 

 What happens if two of the astronauts have a baby, or something? 
Well, that's not the goal. We're putting people up there, but they'll be largely responsible for their own actions. Because of the time difference between Earth and Mars, it's not like we'll be able to say, "Pick up that rock" or guide them through stuff in realtime, so they'll have to be responsible.

And any responsible person knows that Mars – with only three other people for company – probably isn't the ideal place to have a baby. The means to get a baby into the world will be there, though, and the long-term goal is create an outpost where that could happen – maybe when there's 20 or 30 people there. 

So you eventually want to start a whole new Martian society?
Yeah, that should be the goal. We want to establish a small self-supporting society on Mars that doesn’t need the Earth anymore. Although, it's such long-term planning that it's not really something you can keep under control, so we'll have to see.

Do you want to go and live on Mars eventually?
I wanted to. I talked to our medical director, Norbert Craft, though, and he said I don't have the patience or the calmness to cope. I'm the architect and the entrepreneur, not the right person to actually go on the mission, but I will be extremely, extremely jealous when the first four people leave.

 One of my friends put his name down for it. He's always wanted to live in the remote Scottish wilderness, so I suppose Mars would be an even better alternative.
Oh, cool. We just got a bid from an investor, so we're getting really close to signing contracts with our suppliers. When that happens, we think we'll be far enough along to start selecting astronauts.

Nice, I'll let him know. Lastly, what's your personal mission with this? Scientific discovery? Moving the human race forward? Or just leaving your mark on the universe?
Somewhere in the middle, I suppose. I’m interested in the science – I mean, imagine if we found life on Mars. We don't know how much life there is in the universe, let alone on our neighbouring planet. And who knows – it could even bring us closer to understanding the history of the solar system and where we all come from. Of course, the prospect of putting humanity on a different planet is also just breathtaking. It seemed incomprehensible to me before, so my biggest motivation at the moment is to achieve sending the first ever people to Mars. 

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Chief Pornography Officer - Wanted !!!

Chief pornography officer wanted in Beijing, who are interested in this job?

The Chief Pornography Officer will need to keep abreast of all types of obscene material.

An alliance of Chinese companies intent on cleaning up the internet is seeking a Chief Pornography Officer to research websites for obscene material and "manage and rate" the results of their findings.

Anquan Lianmeng ( 安全联盟literally "Safety Alliance") describes itself as a "neutral and impartial third-party organisation" looking to establish industry standards for internet safety and to monitor Chinese users' access to obscene material. It was jointly organized by 800 Internet companies including Baidu, Tencent and Kingsoft.

Candidates have overwhelmed the human resources department of the newly-formed alliance, lured by the 200,000 yuan (£21,000) annual salary and the hope of bringing moral fortitude to their nation while consuming endless hours of pornography.
Yang Jilong, the group's human resources chief, said that they have received over 5,000 CVs for the Chief Pornography Appraiser position since publicizing the job ad on Weibo last week.

He explained the purpose of the job was one of sifting true smut from merely naughty material for Chinese users, and admitted that some websites might require further inspection from a higher authority.

"As we find vulgar information and safety risks on websites, we'll remind Web users with an online label, while for those that we're not sure about, we'll ask law school professors and government administrators for help," he said.

Skills in foreign languages are essential for the job, as much of the material the officer will assess will originate from Europe, the US and Japan, and good teamwork skills and a strong "sense of responsibility" are a plus.

Free fruit and yoghurt on week days are an added bonus for the successful applicant.

The production and distribution of pornography are officially banned in China, but the government has struggled to keep such material behind what was once described as the "great firewall of China" in an age of mobile phones and tools such as virtual private networks (VPNs), which allow users to appear to be in different countries when they log on.

Cai Yifan, a 23-year-old applicant from Nanjing, Jiangsu province, said he heard about the job through Tencent Weibo and had already sent his resume.

The graduate, who majored in English and is proficient in Japanese, took part in an online test for the job, but claimed it was too difficult.

"The questions covered many fields, such as translation, legal knowledge and psychology. I'm interested in the job, but my chances of success are slim, as the standards were too high," he added.

Job Responsibilities: Quickly and accurately identifying pornographic and obscene websites.
Job Description:
1. Research and study pornographic videos and images, formulate criteria for determining obscenity.
2. Deploy courseware on the standards of obscenity determination, and study materials such as educational videos on pornography.
3. Manage and rate pornographic resources (including BT seeds, images, and online videos).
Job Requirements:
1. Familiarity with the different standards of determination of pornographic content of different countries;
2. Familiarity with the standards of determination and express regulations concerning pornography in China’s law;
3. Familiarity with the standards of pornography identification used by CNNIC (China Internet Network Information Center) and various major internet providers;
4. A bachelor’s degree or above; age between 20-35; all genders;
5. Possesses good teamwork skills, and a strong sense of responsibility.
Benefits:
1. National standard insurances and additional allowance for meals, transportation and phone.
2. Expenses on relevant books can be reimbursed. Free fruits and yogurt each week day.
3. Free physical examination once every year, and gift for birthday, wedding and child birth.

Interview questions:

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Lesbian Girl Needs Boyfriend - Get £40m !

Men queue up for £40m job to 'convert lesbian' as she laughs at father's offer to any man who could turn her straight

    Property magnate Cecil Chao Sze-tsung offered the huge bounty to the man who can sweep his daughter of her feet - even though she is married to her long-term girlfriend
    Offers have already begun to flood in from across the world including from from war veterans and and gay men

Dismissed nuptials: Lesbian Gigi Chao, has laughed off her father Cecil Chao's efforts, to find her a husband after he offered £40million to any man who could convince into a heterosexual marriage
Spat: Cecil Chao, is said to have been upset when his daughter Gigi, announced at an event in Beijing that she had tied the knot with her long-term lover, Sean Eav, five months ago

Couple: Gigi Chao, right,and her girlfriend of seven years Sean Eav, had a church blessing in France

The lesbian daughter of a billionaire playboy has laughed off her father's 'marriage bounty' of nearly £40 million to any man who can turn his daughter straight.

One of Hong Kong's richest men, Cecil Chao Sze-tsung, made the offer after his daughter Gigi married her girlfriend of seven years Seab Eav in France.

And surprise, surprise, the offers have already started arriving thick and fast from men all over the globe.

Refusing to accept the gay union, the property and shipping tycoon pledged the fortune to any potential male suitor able to walk Gigi down the aisle at a traditional wedding.

But his daughter, a 33-year-old University of Manchester graduate said she thought the HKD500 million Hong Kong dollar offer - the equivalent of £39.8 million - was 'quite entertaining'.

‘War veterans from the US, someone from Ethiopia, from Istanbul, South America, Portugal, really just from all over the world,’ she said.

One American suitor wrote: ‘I’m interested in the offer. I am a male person, who also happens to be gay.’


Another put up his brother, a  body double to George Clooney  in the 2008 film Leatherheads, as a potential mate.

The hopefuls, however, seem to be wasting their time.

Miss Chao insists she will not be ditching her partner – no matter the quality of man her father’s millions can buy.

Hong Kong billionaire Mr Chao, 76 – who claims to have slept with 10,000 women – has refused to accept his daughter’s sexuality, hence his  ‘marriage bounty’.

‘My father has an interesting interpretation of me,’ said Mrs Chao, a Manchester University graduate.

‘Homosexuality is still an uncomfortable issue for many people.’

She refused to confirm reports of her nuptials on April 4, stating: 'I'm not afraid to admit anything. But I do want to respect my parents.

'Let time be the witness.'

‘I don’t mind whether he is rich or poor – the important thing is that he is generous and kind-hearted,’ he said of the ideal husband for his daughter.

‘Gigi is a very good woman with both talents and looks. She is devoted to her parents, is generous and does volunteer work,’ he told the South China Morning Post.

Same-sex marriages are not recognised in Hong Kong.

According to reports, the spat between Mr Chao and his daughter erupted last week when she announced at an event in Beijing that she tied the knot with her long-term lover, Sean Eav, five months ago.

A regular on the city’s social circuit and in celebrity magazines, Mr Chao has never been married. Gigi is the oldest of his three children with three mothers.

In addition to the dowry, he has also offered to start his potential son-in-law up in his own business.

He said the prize money was ‘an inducement to attract someone who has the talent, but not the capital, to start his own business’.

Miss Chao graduated from university in 1999 with a degree in architecture. She went on to work for two years with prominent British architect Sir Terry Farrell.

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Vagina's Name Contest

Erotic magazine wants to rename the vagina

A Danish magazine has had enough of people calling their vagina ‘it’, ‘that thing’ or ‘downstairs’ and has started a contest in order to find a proper name

How's this for an offer? You could be the one to rename the Danish vagina
Cherry, cha cha, muffin and kitty are just some of the creative synonyms for the vagina, but the erotic magazine Tidens Kvinder, wants to come up with something better. The magazine thinks that it has become somewhat awkward and shameful to speak about woman’s genitals and has decided to give Denmark a chance to rename ‘her’.

In a contest running until May 1, people have the chance to suggest a new alternative word. The idea is to agree on a new term which will not be taboo and may even make its way into Danish dictionaries.

“We are looking for a more neutral word that sounds good and is not offensive or related to something forbidden. The female’s genitals are often associated with a taboo, porn or something sleazy – and we don’t think that is right,” the chief sub-editor of Tidens Kvinder, Helle Hartz, said on the website’s blog.

The most common Danish words which are generally found insulting include ‘fisse’, ‘kusse’, ‘fjappen’, ‘skræv’ and ‘dåsen’ (the can). At the lighter end of the spectrum are words like ‘missen’ (the kitty), ‘fi’, ‘hun’ (her) and ‘punani’. These slang words are mostly used among young people, so even though they may not be offensive, they might not be recognised terms by older generations. Another popular word is ‘tissekone’, which is a combination of the Danish words for ‘pee’ and ‘woman’, but it is considered a very childish word only used among small children. At last are the words ‘vagina’ and ‘skede’ which are the more clinical terms often used at school and the doctor’s office. Most Danish girls will remember turning bright red with shame when their mother would say ‘skede’, as this word is commonly used among older women. For some reason, ‘vagina’ has remained a very rare word in Denmark, so it is not very often used by anyone other than the doctor.

Despite all these words to choose from, many Danes have a problem finding the correct term that sounds mature and respectful while also being sexy and appealing and many of the available choices cause embarrassment.

Therefore Tidens Kvinder wants to come up with an ideal new word that can be used by everyone from children to elders without it being offensive or causing giggles. It should be possible, the magazine says, to use this new word in any context whether it being in the bedroom, at your grandparents' house or at the doctor's office.

Some of the suggestions so far count 'kufi', 'kuska', 'fidilut' and 'patatina' – although the last one, which means ‘little potato’ in Italian, was deemed inappropriate by the magazine.

If you think you can come up with a better word – preferably not a food – you would like Danes to use, then enter the competition here. There are prizes for the top three inventive and useful alternative suggestions. And who knows, maybe the winning choice will be taught at schools some day.

By: Unknown On 17.27

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Wanted !! Professional Sleeper !!

Helsinki Hotel Seeks Professional Sleeper to Test Out New Beds

Hotel Finn, in the heart of Helsinki, is looking for a “professional sleeper” to test the comfort of its 35 rooms and blog all about it, the Associated Press reports.

Hotel manager Tio Tikka told the AP that they were looking for a “dynamic person to write a quality blog” about their experience living in the “best spot of summery Helsinki.” Being able to doze off is not the only job requirement. You must be fluent in Finnish and English to apply. Knowledge of Russian is an advantage.

According to the AP, some 600 people have applied for the sleeper position so far. Applications are accepted until the end of April and the 35-day gig officially starts on May 17.

Hotel Finn is not the first to hunt for professional sleepers. A Chinese woman surnamed Zhuang was selected in 2010 out of 7,800 candidates as a hotel test sleeper for the Chinese online travel platform Qunar.

According to CNN, this type of campaign became increasingly after Ben Southall beat 35,000 applicants from 200 countries to win the “best job in the world” as caretaker of Hamilton Island on the Great Barrier Reef after hugely successful Tourism Queensland campaign in 2009.

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The Biggest Secret How To Make Girl's Photo Nude

Learn THis in a year - maybe you can make girl's photo nude in 10 year ahead..

Your Brain develops a negative.
Take 30 seconds and then a few hours to figure out why and how!

This is really slick TRY IT. You'll just be amazed.
Your eyes and brain actually develop this negative. See instructions below.

This one is the BEST I have seen so far !!!!!
Instructions:
1. Stare at the red dot on the girls nose for 30 seconds.
2. Turn your eyes to a plain surface (your ceiling or blank wall).
3. Blink repeatedly and quickly while still looking at the plain surface.
4. The brain makes the negative into a positive!!! Tell me if that isn't the coolest thing?

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Dead Girl Photo Mystery

Outrage over Hangzhou police's cartoon murder appeal

POLICE in Hangzhou are offering up to 20,000 yuan (US$3,218) to anyone who can solve the "hidden clue" of three playing cards found near a murder victim.

But the online post has been condemned as disrespectful to the victim. A picture of her dead body had been posted online together with an image of popular Japanese cartoon character Detective Conan.

While thousands of netizens speculated about what the king of spades, jack of diamonds and five of spades might mean, many others accused police of a publicity stunt.

Police said the 25-year-old woman, 1.58 meters tall, was found dead in greenery in Hangzhou on March 15. They said they had found nothing that would identify her but were puzzled by the three playing cards left beside the body.

In a microblog post published by Hangzhou police officer Hu Bing, netizens were offered a reward if they could solve the puzzle or provide clues to the case.

The post used the image of Detective Conan, quoting the character saying: "Case closed. One truth prevails."

In one picture, a photo of the dead woman's face is next to the cartoon character who is saying: "Do you know her? If so, tell me. I must bring her justice."

The post has been forwarded more than 18,000 times since it was published on Saturday.

"If the woman carried the cards, she might be sending a message to help police catch the murderer. But if the cards were thrown by the murderer, he or she might be taunting the police," was one online comment.

"Are the three cards meaning 'save me quickly'?" asked a Hangzhou resident surnamed Zhou.

In Chinese, "J" and "K" are the first letters in pinyin for "save" and "quickly." While on the Internet, many netizens use the number "five" to mean "me" as the two words sound similar in Chinese.

Many people said they felt very uncomfortable about the dead woman's photo being published alongside the cartoon image.

"Let's set aside the copyright problem of directly using the image of the cartoon character. Firstly, shouldn't death and the murder case be very serious topics?" asked microblogger Hecaitou.

"The way that the police put the corpse photo next to the cartoon character seems like entertaining the public with the murder case," he said.

Hu, the police officer who published the post, said that he was trying all the ways he knew to find clues that could help catch the woman's killer.

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Condom Idea Contest - Get Prize $100K

Bill Gates Offering $100K for a Better-Feeling Condom
Condoms have been around for hundreds of years, but sadly haven’t seen major improvements in the last 50. Bill Gates is out to change that. The billionaire is putting some serious cash into the condom concept of the future.

Condoms are hands-down the best way to prevent both unplanned pregnancies and STIs, but for all the good they do, most guys still whine about wrapping it up. Bill Gates hopes to change all that: The billionaire's foundation is offering a $100,000 grant to anyone who can design a better condom, or figure out a way to make guys more eager to wear them. "The primary drawback from the male perspective is that condoms decrease pleasure as compared to no condom, creating a trade-off that many men find unacceptable, particularly given that the decisions about use must be made just prior to intercourse.” the challenge's description states.

True story. The only bad news in all this: "Large-scale human clinical trials are not required," the challenge states. Still think you can one-up Trojan? Let's take a look at a brief history of rubbers for some inspiration.

1,000 BC: Egyptians used linen sheaths to get it on without sharing any diseases. They even died them different colors.

1500s: Linen condoms made a comeback in Europe as a way to prevent syphilis. One major innovation this time: The cloth was doused in chemicals—the very first spermicides—and then set out to dry.

1800s: Hallelujah! Goodyear (yes, the tire folks) figure out how to mass-produce rubber.

1861: An American newspaper prints the country's first-ever condom ad, touting "French Preventatives."

1873: And, one step back. The Comstock Law of 1873 makes all contraception illegal.

1957: Durex introduces lubricated condoms.

1990s: Hello, polyurethane.

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