Things that make you go hmmmm…
The 842 area code is NOT a valid area code. This area code is NOT officially assigned to a known Numbering Plan Area (NPA). The 842 area code is not assigned to a city/state location.
A Chinese teen who sold his kidney for an iPhone a few years ago is reportedly bedridden for life.
Wang Shangkun, who was 17 years old when he sold the organ, began suffering from a decreased level of kidney function.
At the time, he sold his kidney for about $3,200 to black market organ harvesters in China. He bought an iPhone 4 and an iPad model with his cash.
Eight years later, Wang is now bedridden for life after his other kidney failed, Fox News reported.
Why do I need a second kidney? One is enough,” he said at the time.
Now, Wang is hooked up to machines to perform dialysis to survive his kidney failure, Fox reported.
The operation took in the province of Hunan without his parents’ approval and was undertaken by doctors who were employed at local hospitals.
Reports said Wang made contact with the organ harvesters through Internet chat rooms.
However, unlike Wang’s case, victims of the grisly practice are killed for their organs in a Chinese Communist Party-sponsored campaign to eradicate practitioners of Falun Gong, a type of meditation and spiritual discipline based on truthfulness, compassion, and forbearance.
In a bombshell December 2018 report released by the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG), of the 16 doctors who spoke on the record, 11 doctors from nine hospitals immediately admitted that their organs came from Falun Gong practitioners.
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https://www.theepochtimes.com/chinese-teen-who-sold-kidney-for-an-iphone-is-now-bedridden-for-life-reports_2769890.html
The word ‘madam’ has a sense of authority or rank attached to it. That is why it is often considered as a term used to address a woman who occupies a high rank or authority in an organization or in the society.
It is interesting to note that ‘madam’ is a very polite way of addressing any woman in general for that matter. Of course it is to be employed in the conversational style of use. In other words it can be said that the word ‘madam’ is a more respectful mode of addressing a woman. In British English the word is used to refer a precocious and an intelligent girl. Sometimes it is used to address a young woman too.
On the other hand the word ‘madame’ is used as a kind of title or form of address used of a French-speaking woman. The plural form of the word ‘madame’ is ‘mesdames’. In short it can be said that the word ‘madame’ is use as a corresponding term for the words ‘Mrs’ or ‘madam’.
Linguists consider that what the British refer to by the usage of the word ‘madam’ is actually referred to by the usage of ‘madame’ too in France. These minor differences between the two words ‘madam’ and ‘madame’ should be known thoroughly by the writer if he is to convey the exact purport of words and sentences to the reader.