Dad pays daughter $200 to quit Facebook

Rachel Baier, a 14-year-old high school student from Wellesley, Mass., struck a deal with her dad that would require her to completely walk away from the popular social network for five months. In exchange, her father Paul will pay her $200. If successful, the teenager will receive $50 on April and $150 in June.

To ensure fulfillment of the signed agreement, the elder Baier has access to the high schooler’s Facebook account and can change the password to avoid reactivation. Given that this was the 14-year-old’s idea in the first place, that shouldn’t be a problem.

Paul Baier, a vice president at a Boston-area energy firm, posted a photograph of the signed contract on his blog, which usually focuses on energy technology and sustainability.

“It was her idea,” Baier told the Daily Dot. “She wants to earn money and also finds Facebook a distraction and a waste of time sometimes. She plans to go back on after the 6 months is over.”

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Drive-Thru Prayer Ministry in Corpus Christi

628x471adfasdfdCORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) — The corner of Airline Road and South Alameda Street epitomizes suburbia. A pharmacy, car mechanic, gas station, liquor store and credit union cluster nearby.

But next to McDonald’s — literally on the other side of its wood plank fence, within a french fry’s throw — there’s a new kind of drive-thru.

“Our philosophy: Like the post office, rain or shine, they deliver mail,” the Rev. Tom Ferrell muses. “We’ll deliver God’s mail.”

To be sure, the new prayer ministry at South Shore Christian Church, where Ferrell serves as associate pastor, is less a delivery service and more a come-and-get-it kind of service. But for the 5 o’clock commuter, the convenience is hard to beat. Engine running, just roll down the window and talk. Volunteers will pray with, or for, motorists. They might get nuggets — of wisdom, hope or comfort.

It began Jan. 15. Each Tuesday from 5 to 6 p.m., a few church clergy and members stand by. Cars can turn off either street, then cross the parking lot to the awning at the front of the church.

South Shore wants it to be a low-pressure, high-comfort experience. There’s no requirement to adhere to any religion or denomination, nor to attend services. Confidentiality will be honored, Ferrell said.

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From Target manager to Head of Nuclear Security

SPOKANE, Wash. — A former manager at the Target store in north Spokane took a new job overseeing the National Nuclear Security Administration.

Nuclear Weapons & Materials Monitor, a weekly trade publication, reported that the NNSA has named Steve Asher as its acting head of nuclear security. Asher was picked to develop and implement security programs at nuke sites nationwide.

Asher began working with NNSA in 2012 according to Nuclear Weapons & Materials Monitor. The publications said that Asher was originally hired as a security consultant.

Previously, Asher lived in Spokane County after retiring from the Air Force as a colonel according to a former Target co-worker.

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