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Sheree Murphy Calls for an End to Football Boredom

June 2, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, Jun 01 (MARKET WIRE) —
Gala Bingo has teamed up with Sheree Murphy to offer the
football-fatigued an escape from all the discussions regarding Rooney’s
right foot or England’s penalty shootout chances.

While her World Cup footballer husband, Harry Kewell, is away playing for
the Australian team in South Africa, the Hollyoaks actress will be having
plenty of fun at home without him.

She’ll be going out with her friends to play bingo at the UK’s number one
bingo operator, where every day during June and July someone can win GBP
250K playing Gala Bingo’s ‘World Cup Fever High 5′game.

Driven by big prizes, excitement and teamwork, ‘World Cup Fever High 5′
is a rollover jackpot game. If ‘house’ is called on number 5, the winner
claims half the jackpot, while the other half is shared by all the other
players at the club.

From 9-30 June, Gala Bingo is also offering the chance to win between GBP
50 to GBP 15k cash prizes in its eight ‘All Winners Games’.

Gala Bingo offers plenty of things to do if bored of the World Cup. From
June 1 and throughout the World Cup, Sheree will have a series of online
games in the dedicated ‘Sheree Murphy’ club at galabingo.com, as well as
weekly jackpots of GBP 20,000. Popular interactive bingo channel, Gala
TV, which is streamed and broadcast on Sky and Freesat channel 861, will
also be running a number of World Cup themed games.

Sheree said: “During the World Cup, I’m not going to be sitting
around watching endless hours of football. Instead I’m really looking
forward to a great night out playing bingo with my friends.”

She added: “I’m really excited to be working with Gala Bingo. I’ve
always loved to play bingo. It’s a great night out.”

Chris Edgington, group marketing director at Gala Bingo said: “With
Sheree’s help, we’re delighted to be offering our players a fantastic
escape from all the World Cup fever in June and July. We’ve got some
great cash prizes up for grabs as well as the chance to win GBP 250k. We
wish all our players – and England – the very best of luck!”

Gala Bingo’s ‘World Cup Fever High 5′ game will take place in Gala Bingo
clubs nationwide everyday throughout the World Cup at 14.30 and 20.30hrs.

Notes to editors

Gala Bingo, galabingo.com and Gala TV are all part of Gala Coral Group
Limited – Europe’s leading gambling operator.

Gala Bingo

Gala Bingo is the UK’s number one bingo operator, with 145 clubs. Gala
Bingo hosts a rollover jackpot game called High 5, a unique offering in
the bingo industry whereby jackpots are shared between club members. The
largest win to date was in November 2007, where nearly GBP 875,000 was
won – half of which was distributed among High 5 players and the other
half went to one overall winner.

The way High 5 works is very simple. If ‘house’ is called on number 5,
players can claim 50 per cent of the rollover jackpot, while the
remaining 50 per cent is shared by all the other players at the club.
There’s another chance to win if members call ‘house’ on a number ending
with a five – for example number 85 – where 10 per cent of the total cash
is awarded to that player and the rest of the jackpot rolls over to the
next game.

The High 5 game has paid out GBP 2.3 million in Jackpot prizes alone
since January 1, 2010. That’s the equivalent of a High 5 Jackpot paid out
every single day.

galabingo.com

galabingo.com is a leading online bingo website with a winner every
second (bingo and games) and gives away GBP 65 million a year.
galabingo.com offers bingo, chat and other fun games 24 hours a day,
seven days a week.

Gala TV

Gala TV is streamed at galabingo.com and broadcast on Sky and Freesat
channel 861.

Gala Coral Group

Gala Coral Group is proud to support Sue Ryder Care, and has raised over
GBP 1m and is the first gambling operator to have received full GamCare
accreditation across all its divisions.

Gala Coral Group employs nearly 17,000 people.

Contacts:
Slice
Hannah Morgan
020 3128 6557
hannah@slice.co.uk

Gala Coral Group
Lesley Hall
01483 718326
lesley.hall@galacoral.com

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Michelle McGee continued affair with Jesse James out of ”boredom”

May 7, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

New York, May 7 (ANI): Michelle ‘Bombshell’ McGee has revealed that she continued her affair with Sandra Bullock’s husband Jesse James out of boredom.

Appearing on Howard Stern”s Sirius XM radio show Wednesday, the tattooed model said it was “boredom” that led her to carry on an 11-month affair with the motorcycle mechanic, reports The New York Daily News.

“I had nothing better to do,” 32-year-old McGee said.

“It was a sexual thing. I also wished it was a relationship – but I wasn”t in love with him,” she added.

After weeks of conversations through MySpace, McGee said James invited her to take a tour of his bike shop for their first meeting.

James and McGee ended up sleeping together on the coffin-shaped couch in his office.

“Yeah, it wasn”t excellent,” McGee said. She said they had sex “two to three, four times a night, two times a week.”

“We watched Bullock on TV one time. James said they were separated, so I believed him. I feel bad for her, I do,” she added. (ANI)

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Sandra Bullock shares her bed with 9 dogs!

May 7, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

Sydney, May 7 (ANI): Sandra Bullock has an unusual sleeping habit – she shares her bed with all her 9 dogs.

The Blind Side star, who left her husband Jesse James over allegations of his affair with model Michelle ”Bombshell” McGee, slept with her 9 puppies even when James was around.

“I feel bad for her, I do. But they slept with nine dogs in the bed… she liked to sleep with all the dogs in the bed,” The Sydney Morning Herald quoted Michelle as saying.

When asked about her relationship with James, she told US radio host Howard Stern: “It was boredom. Had nothing better to do. It was a sexual thing. I also wished it was a relationship – but I wasn”t in love with him.” (ANI)

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Teens” blogging shows little risky behaviour

March 25, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

Washington, March 25 (ANI): A new Ohio State University study of 100 teen bloggers from around the US found that a majority used blogs to develop relationships with their peers and build a sense of community, rather than to admit misbehaviour.

The research has appeared in the current issue of the Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal.

According to Dawn Anderson-Butcher, associate professor of social work at Ohio State, the findings suggests that blogging could be used therapeutically to help troubled teens express themselves in positive ways.

Anderson-Butcher and her students analysed blog posts from the public Web site Xanga (http://www.xanga.com/) for a month, to find out whether teens blogged about risky behaviours, such as skipping school, doing drugs, or having sex.

The researchers found most teens in the study blogged about positive behaviours, such as studying, participating in school activities, spending time with family, and going to church.

Anderson-Butcher said: “We looked at every quote, and the kids wrote about very few problem behaviors.

“They showed a lot of creative expression through poetry, lyrics and song. It was very exciting — and for me, positive — to see the typical developmental activities that they were writing about in their blogs.”

While the researchers couldn”t know whether parents were supervising the Xanga blogs used in this study, the teens were clearly writing blog entries as messages to their peers.

Among the most common positive activities the teens described were playing video games (65 percent); watching television (45 percent); doing homework (40 percent); going to lessons, such as music, dance, or martial arts (38 percent); browsing the Internet (29 percent); and participating in faith-based activities (22 percent).

Anderson-Butcher said even the teens” most common complaint – boredom (65 percent) – was not such a bad thing if they were blogging about it instead of engaging in risky behaviours.

She said: “Think about the other things they could be doing. We know that when kids are bored, mostly between the hours of 3:00-6:00 p.m., that”s when they”re most at risk for using alcohol or having sex, for example. It”s the time when their parents are working and they are often unsupervised. But instead these youth sought out social expression via Xanga.

“So that”s definitely a positive. They”re filling their time with this social networking.”

Some teens posted to Xanga every day, while others only posted once or twice during the month used in the study.

Teens also described some negative feelings, such as feeling blue (30 percent); feeling angry (28 percent); and feeling like they don”t fit in (22 percent). They complained that they didn”t want to do their homework (16 percent), and worried about getting bad grades (11 percent).

Very few mentioned cutting class (8 percent); using drugs, alcohol, or cigarettes (6 percent); or having sex (1 percent).

Anderson-Butcher firmly believes parents should supervise their kids” blogs, even making such supervision a condition of blogging. That way, parents can notice problems when they come up in the blog.

The blog data in this study came from 2007. Xanga is less popular with the majority of teens now “micro-blogging” their activities on Facebook.

Anderson-Butcher said she cannot replicate the study on Facebook, however, because unlike Xanga, it offers safety measures to keep strangers from reading kids” profiles.

She said: “That”s a good thing in relation to privacy.

“It just means we aren”t able to access the data as freely.” (ANI)

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Kate Winslet split from Sam Mendes ‘out of boredom’

March 17, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

New York, March 17 (ANI): Kate Winslet decided to put an end to her seven year old marriage with Sam Mendes ‘out of boredom’, it has been alleged.

The Oscar-winning actress, 34, and the director, 44, called it quits two years after they teamed up for the film Revolutionary Road, based on a drifting couple.

“She felt bored. When Sam isn”t working, he”d just as soon stay home. Kate loves going out. … She was the one pushing for the divorce,” the New York Daily News quoted a friend of the couple as saying.

The source further claimed Winslet’s steamy scenes with co-star Leonardo DiCaprio in the film were the tipping point.

The friend said that movie “put a lot of stress on their marriage” and “Kate came to regret making the movie with Sam.”

The pal continued: “They”ve been pretty much living separate lives since the end of the summer. They realized some time ago that they were not a good fit. They were more like brother and sister.” (ANI)

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MP up-beat about Carnarvon crime solution

March 9, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

North-west Western Australian MP Vince Catania says he is confident the Carnarvon community can restore its reputation after recent crime and violence in the town.

Nationals’ leader Brendon Grylls and the Child Protection Minister Robyn McSweeney recently visited Carnarvon to see first-hand the issues plaguing the town.

Mr Catania says it is only a minority that are causing the problems.

He says support from all levels of government is needed to develop programs and strategies that address the issues.

“We’ve got to … give kids something to do or the opportunity to be educated and the opportunity to be fed and off the street,” Mr Catania said.

“But we’ve also got to look at parents needing to take responsibility.

“There are some families that need assistance and we’ve got to look at how we can give them assistance to ensure that they are proper parents.”

Acting Senior Sergeant Gordon Hughes from Carnarvon police says most break-ins by young offenders occur during school holidays.

He says there has been a significant reduction in the amount of burglaries in the past few weeks.

“I think there’s a huge correlation between the kids’ boredom and offending,” Sergeant Hughes said.

“Most of our kids aren’t what I’d call hardcore offenders. They’re just kids who are just wandering around with nothing to do and it’s pretty much evident that most of our offending happens during the school holidays.”

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How to cope with unexpected job loss’ impact on marriage amid recession

September 14, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, Sep 13 (ANI): As people are increasingly losing jobs, and being thrown towards forced retirement due to recession, their married lives are hitting a rough patch as well.

A large number of couples are reporting growing tension after one retires, or is forced to retire due to layoffs.

And researchers have said that job loss is pulling people apart instead of making them closer.

They have found that this could be because coping with the unexpected job loss can jolt a person’s relationship as they spend everyday together, leading to irritation and boredom.

Psychologists have attributed the change in behaviour among couples to the fact that any major transformation, expected or unexpected, alters life in unimaginable ways.

But people can still pull their married lives together by following some simple tips to reduce the tension, which are:

1. Redefine your job loss as a temporary transition and as a time to explore what you really want to do when the economy picks up.

2. Identify your connectors. Let everyone know what happened and that you are well and available.

3. Use your time wisely. In addition to job hunting, set aside at least two days a week to either volunteer or set up an internship for yourself in a place you would someday like to work.

4. Keep your stress level under control. Take up walking, yoga, meditation, reading, swimming.

5. To reduce tension with your spouse, initiate an “Expectation Exchange.” This is the time to discuss your relationship and how it is being affected by your job loss.

6. If you cannot discuss the situation openly it might be helpful to meet with a counselor, therapist, psychologist or social worker – someone who can bring underlying feelings out into the open and help the couple resolve the tensions.

7. Go to Plan B. Realize that your life has not followed the script you both had in mind. You are experiencing an event – job loss – and a non-event – not having the life you expected.

This is the time creatively brainstorm your plan B. This is the time to rethink your script and realize that today is not forever. (ANI)

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Women have sex to ‘relieve boredom, pity and to cure a migraine’

September 7, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, Sep 7 (ANI): Women indulge in sex not for love and passion, but for various other “unromantic” reasons- including relieving themselves of boredom, out of pity for a man and even to cure a migraine headache-says a new book.

‘Why Women Have Sex’ by Cindy Meston and David Buss has highlighted 200 reasons as to why women have sexual intercourse.

While attraction ranks way down in the list, it seems that women go to bed with their partners as a way of relieving boredom, keeping the peace, curing a headache and even as a thank you for a nice dinner.

“Research has shown that most men find most women at least somewhat sexually attractive, whereas most women do not find most men sexually attractive at all,” the Telegraph quoted the authors, who are both psychology professors at the University of Texas, as saying.

The researchers interviewed 1,006 women as research for the book, and found some very surprising answers.

One revealed that she did it for a spiritual experience, as she thought it to be “the closest thing to God”.

Others listed “cure for stress headache”, “to make my sexual skills better” and “for a clearer complexion”.

However, the majority (84 per cent), admitted that they had sex to ensure a quiet life or to bargain for their partners to carry out household chores.

“I have sex to relieve the boredom.Because it’s easier than fighting. Plus it gives me something to do,” said one of the interviewee.

While another admitted: “I had sex with a couple of guys because I felt sorry for them.”

One of the surveys carried out by the authors revealed that one in ten women admitted having sexual intercourse in return for presents, or lavish meals.

Responses included “he bought me a nice dinner” or “he spent a lot of money on me early on”, “he gave me gifts early on” and “he showed me he had an extravagant lifestyle”. (ANI)

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Arsenal goalkeeper fears Fabregas may quit Gunners out of ‘boredom’

August 8, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, Aug 8(ANI): Arsenal goalkeeper Manuel Almunia believes that former defender Kolo Toure quit the Gunners as he was bored, and warned that the same could happen with captain Cesc Fabregas, if they don’t win a trophy this year.

Toure ended his seven-year stay at the Emirates Stadium to seek fresh adventure with Manchester City following his 14 million pound switch.

“Kolo lived through great times at Arsenal. He won the league as part of a great team, the Invincibles. But when you are at any place for a long time, you sometimes need a change and to change your way of life, the city where you live, the team-mates you see every day,” The Sun quoted Almunia, as saying.

“Maybe he was a bit bored, a bit tired of being with the same people every day, in the same atmosphere. He needed a change and you could see it in his face he was not really, really happy in his last period at Arsenal,” Almunia added.

The 32 year-old further said that he was sensing something similar with skipper Fabregas, who is frustrated as Arsenal haven’t been able to win any major trophy since the 2005 FA Cup.

“With Cesc, the same could happen but he has a lot more to offer Arsenal yet. Kolo gave everything to this club and won titles. He gave 100 per cent,” Almunia said.

However, Almunia does believe that Fabregas would give his best effort this season to bring a trophy, which has been long evading them.

“With Cesc, this season we’ll see the best of him and he’ll help us win something. Then he’ll be happy to be here and will do what he wants to do,” Almunia added. (ANI)

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Winehouse turned to booze out of boredom, says mum

May 26, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, May 26 (ANI): Amy Winehouse’s mum has said that her troubled daughter turned to alcohol because of her boredom in St Lucia.

Mum Janis revealed Amy’s staying away from her friends drove the singer to grab the bottle.

“Two of her closest friends are going over to try to calm her down a bit. I think it will make a big difference because in the past few weeks she’s been bored,” the Sun quoted Janis as telling Closer magazine.

“Amy knows her drinking ruined the performance. Of course her band is frustrated, but even they can’t stop her,” she added.

Amy, who is trying to kick her drug addiction Lucia while facing divorce proceedings with hubby Blake Fielder-Civil, recently axed her comeback gig at London’s Shepherd’s Bush Empire.

The 25-year-old had shocked fans earlier this month after giving a shambled performance at the island’s jazz festival, during which she guzzled drinks and forgot her words before bursting into tears.

But Janis has no doubt her daughter would recover and claim her glory again.

She added: “It’s just another one of Amy’s addictions getting the better of her. It’s yet another demon she has to beat.

“She came off drugs on her own so I know she’ll stop drinking too much too. It has to be her decision though, no one else can stop her.” (ANI)

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Scantily clad animal-rights activists protests in Philippine zoo

May 3, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Manila – Scantily-clad women demonstrated Tuesday in front of the Manila Zoo in the Philippine capital against cruel treatment of animals in the 50-year-old, government-run facility. The activists from the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) carried red heart-shaped placards reading “Love the Animals, Boycott the Zoo” and “Have a Heart, Boycott the Zoo” amid watchful eyes of police officers and news photographers.

The group lamented that animals in zoos are “sentenced to lifetimes of boredom, loneliness and abuse, which often leads to self-mutilation and other abnormal and self-destructive behaviors.”

“Animals who are bred or captured for zoos suffer lives of loneliness and misery,” PETA director Jason Baker said. “Although animals at the Manila Zoo haven’t committed any crimes, they are forced to live like prisoners.”

Baker urged the public to stop patronizing zoos such as the 5.5-hectare Manila Zoo, which is currently home to about 500 animals, including several endemic and indigenous species of animals such as the bearcat, long-tailed macaque and crocodile.(dpa)

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Boredom today may negatively affect marriage in the long term

April 18, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, April 18 (ANI): A new study conducted by Stony Brook University researchers suggests that feeling bored in marriage leads to substantially less marital satisfaction even nine years later.

Research leaders Irene Tsapelas and Arthur Aron, who worked in collaboration with University of Michigan researcher Terri Orbuch, interviewed 123 U.S. married couples seven years into their marriage, and then again, nine years later, 16 years into their marriage.

The researchers revealed that, as part of the Year 7 interview, they asked the couples: “During the past month, how often did you feel that your marriage was in a rut (or getting into a rut), that you do the same thing all the time and rarely get to do exciting things together as a couple?”

The team observed that people who reported being bored with their marriages at Year 7 experienced a greater decrease in satisfaction at Year 16.

According to the researchers, people who were not bored at Year 7 experienced a typically small decrease in satisfaction at Year 16.

The study also revealed that lower satisfaction at Year 7 did not lead to increased boredom over the next nine years.

The researchers claim that theirs is the first study to provide direct evidence of a significant long-term negative effect of marital boredom.

Another major finding of the study was that being bored reduces closeness, which in turn reduces satisfaction.

“It is not enough for couples to be free of problems and conflicts. The take-home message of this research is that to maintain high levels of marital quality over time, couples also need to make their lives together exciting,” says Aron.

Previous studies by Aron have suggested that couples can make marriage better by doing new or challenging things on a regular basis.

In the current study, the researchers have found that the effect can last for years.

Based on the research team’s observations, Aron recommends that married couples have a date night, every week, in which they do something together that they have never or rarely done before, something that is not just enjoyable, but in some way exciting.

The study has been published in the journal Psychological Science. (ANI)

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Scarlett Johansson shunned ‘blonde looks’ due to boredom

March 5, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, March 4 (ANI): Actress Scarlett Johansson has revealed that she decided to shun her “blonde bombshell” looks out of boredom.

The actress, who appears in the guise of Marilyn Monroe as the “face” of the first-ever make-up collection by Dolce and Gabbana, launched this week at Milan Fashion Week, has got her hair dyed in a dark red colour.

“I was bored one day. It was raining. I was with a hairdresser friend and just decided to colour my hair. We experimented with a few shades until we got the right one. I like it,” the Telegraph quoted her as telling as to when she decided to get her hair dyed.

Her brunette appearance has surprised people because she has always emphasized on blonde looks in the past.

“For a long time I’ve had really white-blonde hair. I’m naturally blonde – my dad’s Danish – and I was playing up to it. I wanted to act out all those famous blonde icons – Lauren Bacall, Grace Kelly, Marilyn Monroe,” she said. (ANI)

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