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Recently, I Hanseled my way around CES 2011 looking for a place to sit. On my quest to find a comfy chair, I managed to lose myself under a pile of crumby marketing handouts, and half naked girls dancing to show off the features of a … wired router. Amid crappy tablets and massage chairs, I also managed to find Sonomax's booth and discover what I think is the coolest thing to come out of CES: 4-minute custom earphones. Originally, my mate said this Canadian company were batting with a custom earphone that is fully cured in 20 hours and sets in 4 minutes. Hmmm, I thought, that reminds me of SoundCage, a company that made a 20-minute custom a few years ago, and that is also from Canada. Well, it turns out that the SoundCage I discovered whilst getting impressions for the Sleek Audio CT6, and Sonomax are either good mates, or better bedfellows.
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GREAT FALLS, Mont. — A teenager accused of raping an 11-year-old almost a year ago jumped from the rotunda of the courthouse here, slamming his head on the tile floor.
Kaleb Kuebler, 16, had been scheduled for a change-of-plea hearing at 11 a.m. MT Thursday after agreeing Wednesday to plead guilty to one count of sexual intercourse without consent. He faced up to 60 years in prison with 30 years suspended.
Katie Kenneway was sitting on a bench next to the rotunda as Cascade County deputies escorted Kuebler in leg shackles and handcuffs to the third-floor courtroom.
She said he started struggling to get away and then jumped. One deputy caught Kuebler's leg shackle but before another officer could get there to help, Kuebler's shackle slipped through the deputy's fingers. Kuebler landed 13.5 feet below on the second floor; the top of the railing is 19 feet from the floor.
"It was like out of a movie. It was the craziest scene I ever saw in my life," Kenneway said. "When he fell over, the first instinct is to look. I thought he was dead. It was horrible."
Kuebler was hospitalized in critical condition late Thursday with head injuries. The sound of the fall led several people to believe that a gun had been fired inside the courthouse.
By Friday afternoon, Kuebler's condition was stable and improving, Cascade County Sheriff Bob Edwards said.
Kuebler is accused of approaching an 11-year-old girl who was walking home from elementary school in October. She told police that he stole her hat, causing her to chase him into an alley where he reportedly assaulted and raped her.
In a Wednesday pretrial hearing, Kuebler was going to enter an Alford plea, meaning the defendant does not admit guilt but admits that sufficient evidence exists that the prosecution likely could persuade a judge or jury to convict him of the charge.
Judge Greg Pinski of Cascade County District Court denied the Alford plea, saying he wanted Kuebler to be held accountable for his crime.
"For the benefit of the victim, he should admit guilt," Pinski said.
When Kuebler agreed to plead guilty to sexual intercourse without consent, felony charges of aggravated assault, tampering with evidence, aggravated kidnapping and tampering with a witness would to be dismissed, according to court documents. Kuebler was initially charged in juvenile court, but prosecutors transferred the case to District Court to charge Kuebler as an adult.
Former Cascade County Sheriff Glenn Osborne said he is not surprised that an inmate would try to jump, but it's unusual for them to succeed.
"It is shocking. It happens other places where people will jump out of a third floor and land in the parking lot, but it doesn't happen here," Osborne said. Police continue to investigate the incident.
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Why Nashville Companies Are Targeting Tweens For High-Tech Jobs BY ALISSA WALKER | 07-09-2012
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What good do personal clouds and corporate data hives, aquihires and crowdsourcing do to meet your needs (as HR continues to stumble around trying to hire long-term individuals for short-term projects, meanwhile preparing for the year-end mass layoffs which inexorably ensue) if your managers cannot get past their love affair of physical MBWA when your employees are enculturated to do their best work in virtual innovation clusters and collaboratories (see article comments) which take place in a SecondLife CoLab or some such? What good does it do to build a city-wide innovation grid infrastructure or a country-wide innovation cyber space if you still expect your employees to waste an hour of their day driving to and from a cube which holds a desktop computer when they have a speedier, more robust laptop at home? 1) Learn about Results Only Work Environments. 2) Invest in them. 3) Use them.


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How Much Do You Know About Triglycerides?
Blood triglycerides may be an important factor in your risk for heart disease. Your doctor may become concerned if your cholesterol level is too high. But another type of fatty substance found in the blood, known as triglycerides, may also need to be monitored in the effort to prevent heart disease. That is because research has identified high triglyceride levels as a risk factor for cardiovascular disease, even when cholesterol levels are normal.
What Are Triglycerides?
Triglycerides are a form of fat present in food, human body fat, and blood. Blood triglyceride levels are affected by dietary fat and are manufactured in the body from other energy sources, such as carbohydrates. Triglycerides are also stored as body fat.
An elevation of blood triglycerides is referred to as ]]>hypertriglyceridemia]]> . The blood test to measure triglyceride levels is easy and can be done along with a routine blood test that also measures various types of cholesterol. (The most accurate results are obtained when a person fasts before this test.) Triglyceride levels can be quite variable, so several measurements may be needed to provide accurate baseline values.
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An elevated triglyceride level can be an independent medical problem or can be due to another existing medical problem. For instance, people with poorly controlled ]]>type 1]]> or ]]>type 2]]> diabetes often have elevated triglyceride levels. Elevated triglycerides can also be brought on by ]]>thyroid disorders]]> , kidney problems, ]]>obesity]]> , excess alcohol, and taking certain medicines.
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- Borderline high—150-199 mg/dL (1.7-2.2 mmol/L)
- High—200-499 mg/dL (2.3-5.6 mmol/L)
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- Limit alcohol —According to the American Heart Association (AHA), small amounts of alcohol can increase triglyceride levels.
American Heart Association
National Cholesterol Education Program
Dietitians of Canada
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Austin MA, et al. Cardiovascular disease mortality in familial forms of hypertriglyceridemia: a 20-year prospective study. Circulation . 2000;101:2777-2782.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Physical activity for everyone: how much physical activity do adults need? Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website. Available at: http://www.cdc.gov/physicalactivity/everyone/guidelines/adults.html. Updated May 10, 2010. Accessed June 15, 2010.
DynaMed Editorial Team. Hypertriglyceridemia. EBSCO DynaMed website. Available at: http://www.ebscohost.com/dynamed/what.php. Updated June 10, 2010. Accessed June 15, 2010.
National Cholesterol Education Program website. Available at: http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/about/ncep/index.htm .
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute website. Available at: http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov .
Triglycerides. American Heart Association website. Available at: http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=4778. Accessed June 15, 2010.
Last reviewed June 2010 by ]]>Brian Randall, MD]]>
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CARL SAGAN was the David Duncan Professor of Astronomy and Space Sciences and Director of the Laboratory for Planetary Studies at Cornell University. He played a leading role in the American space program since its inception. He was a consultant and adviser to NASA since the 1950's, briefed the Apollo astronauts before their flights to the Moon, and was an experimenter on the Mariner, Viking, Voyager, and Galileo expeditions to the planets. He helped solve the mysteries of the high temperatures of Venus (answer: massive greenhouse effect), the seasonal changes on Mars (answer: windblown dust), and the reddish haze of Titan (answer: complex organic molecules).
For his work, Dr. Sagan received the NASA medals for Exceptional Scientific Achievement and (twice) for Distinguished Public Service, as well as the NASA Apollo Achievement Award. Asteroid 2709 Sagan is named after him. He was also awarded the John F. Kennedy Astronautics Award of the American Astronautical Society, the Explorers Club 75th Anniversary Award, the Konstantin Tsiolkovsky Medal of the Soviet Cosmonauts Federation, and the Masursky Award of the American Astronomical Society, ("for his extraordinary contributions to the development of planetary science…As a scientist trained in both astronomy and biology, Dr. Sagan has made seminal contributions to the study of planetary atmospheres, planetary surfaces, the history of the Earth, and exobiology. Many of the most productive planetary scientists working today are his present and former students and associates").
He was also a recipient of the Public Welfare Medal, the highest award of the National Academy of Sciences (for "distinguished contributions in the application of science to the public welfare…Carl Sagan has been enormously successful in communicating the wonder and importance of science. His ability to capture the imagination of millions and to explain difficult concepts in understandable terms is a magnificent achievement").
Dr. Sagan was elected Chairman of the Division of Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society, President of the Planetology Section of the American Geophysical Union, and Chairman of the Astronomy Section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. For twelve years he was the editor-in-chief of Icarus, the leading professional journal devoted to planetary research. He was cofounder and President of the Planetary Society, a 100,000-member organization that is the largest space-interest group in the world; and Distinguished Visiting Scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology.
A Pulitzer Prize winner for the book The Dragons of Eden: Speculations of the Evolution of Human Intelligence, Dr. Sagan was the author of many bestsellers, including Cosmos, which became the bestselling science book ever published in English. The accompanying Emmy and Peabody award-winning television series has been seen by a billion people in sixty countries. He received twenty-two honorary degrees from American colleges and universities for his contributions to science, literature, education, and the preservation of the environment, and many awards for his work on the long-term consequences of nuclear war and reversing the nuclear arms race. His novel, Contact, is now a major motion picture.
In their posthumous award to Dr. Sagan of their highest honor, the National Science Foundation declared that his "research transformed planetary science… his gifts to mankind were infinite."
Dr. Sagan's surviving family includes his wife and collaborator of twenty years, Ann Druyan; his children, Dorion, Jeremy, Nicholas, Sasha, and Sam; and grandchildren.
Carl Sagan's Vision of Mars
Visions of Mars is a message from our world to future human inhabitants of Mars, which launched on its way to the Red Planet in 2007 aboard the spacecraft Phoenix. Along with personal messages from leading space visionaries of our time, the message will include a priceless collection of Mars literature and art, and a list of hundreds of thousands of names of space enthusiasts from around the world. The entire collection will be encoded on a mini-DVD provided by The Planetary Society, which will be affixed to the spacecraft.
Carl Sagan recorded a message to the future Martians from near his home in Ithaca, New York, with a water fall cascading in the background. You can listen to it here.
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did my econs quiz via the random shooting method.
and got a 30-39% mark -.-
its supposed to be a social science right. normal humans don't use that much maths for everyday economic activities.
Most of the time its just random shootings.
But not my inflatable chair. I had a deep, 5-second contemplation before buying that.
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This week's Project Run & Play challenge was to refashion a Men's Shirt! Well I made two outfits, and here is the tutorial for Edison's dress!
For this dress, to fit a size 6 month old {it also fitted Amelia, who is 18 months, as a cute shirt} you will need:
the lower half of a men's shirt,
some shirring elastic,
some buttons if you want to switch them out,
some piping {DIYed or bought},
There are some tutorials I have linked to at the bottom of this post that may help you with shirring, making your own piping and DIY bias binding!
Click the 'Read More' link below for the full tutorial and downloadable pattern piece
You can download the bodice pattern piece here. It is for a size 6 month baby, but could fit up to 18months if worn as a little tunic shirt!
First we are going to cut off the placket. The lower portion of the placket becomes the straps. For Edison's, the placket length I needed was about 40cm. Measure over one of your babe's shoulders and down her back to simulate the Y-shape to see how much you will need, using the pictures above as a guide.
When cutting out the placket, make sure you have 1cm on the side of the buttonhole piece and 1cm on the side of the buttoned piece.
Fold the shirt in half, matching up the sideseams. Regardless of how big your shirt is, we are going to use the entire width as the skirt. If you have a huge men's shirt, you're going to have a lovely full skirt! If you are using a slender-fit men's shirt then you will still have a fullish skirt, since we're turning men's clothing into baby clothing!
The hem of the shirt becomes the hem of the skirt, so measure up from the highest part of the shirt. Mine was about 18cm. Cut straight across.
Now I liked having the bodice of the dress stand out a little bit, so I cut it with the checks going crossways instead of up & down. This will work for striped fabrics too. I folded the front of the shirt up, making a 45 degree angle and cutting out one front of the bodice. If you want to line it with the same fabric then cut out another one as well {that one doesn't have to be on the cross-grain}
I cut my lining fabric out of the purple lotus blossom fabric that I was using in the shirt dress, to tie the looks together a little extra. You can use whatever you like.
Now stitch across the top of the bodice, leaving the bottom straight edge open. Trim your seam allowance close to the seam {be careful!} to get rid of most of the bulk. Turn the bodice right way out and press it neatly.
Get your placket. We are going to fold this under 0.5cm and then under 0.5cm again and stitch the entire length.
It will look like this
Cut off the hem part of the placket {this was the bottom of the shirt, but it will add too much bulk on this dress}
Pin the plackets to the front of the bodice, buttons on one side & button holes on the other. As you can see in this photo above, I didn't switch the original buttons out yet. I did once the dress was complete, so it's up to you what you want to do. I really love the pop of colour the purple buttons bring!
Now this part is a bit tricky, it's the Y-join at the back of the dress. Now you can just button up the back and leave the parts that go over the shoulders unbuttoned, but it sits a bit strange. So we are going to do a bit of a dart at the back on one of the straps so it sits nicer.
First of all figure out where you will have the Y-join. I then folded over the placket with the buttonholes and placed a pin at an angle, is that a 30 degree angle? Anyway, place a pin across at an angle and then unfold it so you can see how it will sit.
Once you think you have the angle right, it is a bit fiddly I know but once you have a play it is easier, stitch across where you pinned it. Press it flat and you have a dart that made an angle!
Now button up the placket up the back to the join. I didn't realise until i had finished the dress but I could not get it over Edison's head! SO, I added another buttonhole and button at the Y-join.
Here are various angles of what you should have:
Pin your plackets together and stitch up the sides, up over the shoulders and down the straps over the bodice. It's pretty fun, just make sure you have every edge stitched on the outside of the Y and the inside of the Y.
Now gather the front of the skirt. In the picture above you can see I sewed the skirt together into a loop. Better do that too. I gather the 'cheating' way, here is a link to two ways you could gather.
Now pin your bodice to the skirt, the bodice should overlap your sideseams about a cm, it folds around like that.
Stitch & overlock.
The rest of the skirt you are going to want to fold over a 1 cm hem at the top and stitch
Now is the shirring part. Every machine does shirring a bit differently, and I found I had to use an amalgamation of a few kinds of winding my bobbin to get my shirring right. I almost gave up when I first learned to shirr, but don't give up! Because once you have it figured you are going to love it & you are going to be so proud of yourself!
You will need some shirring elastic, which comes in a little spool like thread but it's think elastic. I hand wind my bobbin with the elastic, stretching a little as I do it. Some tutorials tell you NOT to stretch it, or wind it with their machines. This is okay, but neither techniques worked for machine. Once my bobbin is full-ish, I pop it into my machine and sew as usual. There are two shirring tutorials at the bottom of this post, this one helped me the most by Ruffles and Stuff.
Aw hey what?! Why did I cut my shirring off? Well as you can see in the photo before this one, once shirred it was lovely, but didn't bring the back of the shirt in enough. So I folded it in half along the back centre seam I did and cut off a good 10cm in total. Then I stitched up a new centre back seam and overlocked it so it would all stay put. This way it sits snug on Eddie's little back.
Make sure you try the dress on or go by your measurements of the child before you hack it up!
Now all that is left is to attach the back of the Y-strap to the centre back of the dress. Pin & stitch and you are done!
I love how the orange of the dress makes it look like she has ginger hair!
Here's some helpful resources that may help you with this tutorial:
Make your own custom piping
Piping tutorial
Shirring tutorial
Another Shirring tutorial {as mentioned above, it all really depends on your machine. Try a few different ways, don't give up! I almost gave up but persisted and now I want to shir everything!}
Printable Bias Tape Maker {in 2 sizes}
Gathering: the roper way & the cheating way {I use the cheating way, every time}
Check in a few days for the matching tutorial for Amelia's Wanderlust shirt over at Project Run & Play. After the competition I will be making tutorials for all of my looks also!


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Conspiracy theorists can eat their hats. A materials expert from Norway, investigating the collapse of the WTC twin towers, has come up with a new theory explaining why they collapsed in the spectacular fashion seen on 11th September (9/11), 2001. Christian Simensen, a material scientist in SINTEF, the largest independent research organisation in Scandinavia, has claimed that it all has to do with alumina coming in contact with sprinkling water.
Our Tribute to 9/11: http://techie-buzz.com/tech-news/wtc-event-911-timeline-tribute.html
Simensen pointed out that molten aluminium running down to meet some hundred liters of water would create an explosion strong enough to disintegrate the tube-in-tube structure of the towers. These could easily punch away at solid steel columns. He quoted several instances of known explosions, which resulted when hot aluminium came in contact with mildly warm water, to support his theory. He says:
From other disasters and experiments carried out by the aluminium industry, we know that reactions of this sort can lead to violent explosions.
The Powerful Alumina and Water Bomb
There was no dearth of molten aluminum, as the planes could supply as much as 30 tons of the substance at a temperature close to 15000F for an optimal oxygen-jet fuel mixture. Aluminium even at half that temperature would have done the trick.
This aluminum-water explosion scenario would explain the explosions seen in the building just before they collapsed. The explosions, unexplained till date, have provoked many conspiracy theories, which have constantly claimed that 9/11 was an internal job and that the towers were booby-trapped. This might shut them up, or maybe not.
How Powerful? Very Powerful!
Just to give you an idea of the intensity of the explosion, let me quote a controlled experiment. It was conducted by Alcoa Aluminum. They mixed 20 kilos of molten aluminium with 20 liters of water and used a small quantity of rust as catalyst. Simensen reports the catastrophic observations:
The resulting explosion blew away the entire laboratory and left a crater 30 meters in diameter.
Simensen presented his findings at an international materials meet in San Diego, California and will publish the results in the trade journal Aluminium International Today.
Yet another conspiracy theory bites the dust!


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Vanguard Aluminum Tripod with Pan Head
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Nivelo 214 tripod is a flexible, lightweight, compact tripod for compact, mirrorless interchangeable lens cameras that folds in a few seconds flat. Its innovative open canopy lets you invert the Quick Fold Central Column to get great close-up shots. Its legs lock and unlock with incredible speed by simply turning the feet. No fumbling with cumbersome leg locks! It collapses in one second and its compact size enables easy carrying. Take smooth panoramic shots with the 360-degree rotating head. Other features include shock-absorbing contoured rubber feet, a bubble level and an anti-spin central column.
Extended Height (mm): 1200
Folded Height (mm): 350
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Maximum Loading Capacity (kg): 2
Extended Height (inch): 47 1/4
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Maximum Loading Capacity (lbs): 4.4
Number of Leg Sections: 4
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Hampton Roads, Virginia Real Estate
Welcome to the diverse and scenic Hampton Roads region of Virginia. Properties in our area offer a wide range of choices to suit most any lifestyle or budget. Whether you're looking for a beachfront mansion overlooking the ocean, a sprawling country estate, or a starter home in a family-friendly community, Hampton Roads real estate has it all.


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In the shocking third-season finale, former FBI agent Elizabeth Keen (Megan Boone) was discovered alive after a failed attempt to shield her new baby from further collateral damage by associating with the "Concierge of Crime" Raymond "Red" Reddington (James Spader). A mysterious man claiming to be Liz's real father targets her, but first she must resolve the mystery of her lost childhood and reconcile her true identity with the elusive memories corrupted by Reddington. Without the truth, every day holds more danger for herself, her baby and her husband, Tom (Ryan Eggold). Meanwhile, the Task Force reels from Liz's resurrection and friendships are fractured. Betrayed by those closest to him, Reddington's specific moral code demands justice, all the while battling an army of new and unexpected blacklisters.
Jon Bokenkamp ("The Call," "Taking Lives"), John Eisendrath ("Alias"), John Davis ("Predator," "I, Robot," "Chronicle"), John Fox and Michael Watkins ("The X-Files") serve as executive producers. "The Blacklist" is a production of Davis Entertainment in association with Sony Pictures Television and Universal Television.
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James Spader, Megan Boone, Diego Klattenhoff, Ryan Eggold, Harry Lennix, Amir Arison, Mozhan Marnò, Hisham Tawfiq
Created By: Jon Bokenkamp
Executive Producers: John Eisendrath, Jon Bokenkamp, John Davis, John Fox, Michael Watkins, James Spader, Daniel Cerone, Lukas Reiter, J.R. Orci, Daniel Knauf
Episodic Directors: Michael Watkins, Andrew McCarthy, Bill Roe, John Terlesky, Kurt Kuenne, Terrence O'Hara, Don Thorin, Jr., Edward Ornelas, Christine Gee, Anton Cooper, Michael Caracciolo
Co-Executive Producers: Dawn DeNoon, Laura Benson
Producer/UPM: Ted O'Connor, Brandon Margolis, Brandon Sonnier
Co-Producer: Brian Studler
Consulting Producer: Chap Taylor, Kim Newton, Peter Noah
Casting Directors: Bonnie Finnegan and Steven Jacobs, CSA
Production Designer: Nick Lundy
Directors of Photography: Mike Caracciolo, Saade Mustafa
Editors: Dave Post, Christopher Brookshire, Emily E. Greene
Makeup Department Head: Anthony Pepe
Hair Department Head: Vanessa Heshima Sims
Music Supervisor: John Bissell
Origination: New York, New York
Series Produced By: Davis Entertainment in association with Sony Pictures Television and Universal Television


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I've been showing April around the garden today and she's so funny!
She's like my shadow!
She thinks I can't see her…
But I always know where she is!
She's being very respectful and she seems to like some of the same games as I do, so once I'm sure she's well behaved I might play with her.
I hope you all have a pawesome weekend!
Bisous, Bailey


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KOLKATA, India (AP) — The father of a teenage girl who was allegedly gang raped and later died after being set on fire in eastern India is demanding a federal inquiry into the case, which has renewed public outrage over sexual violence in the country.
Hundreds of people protested Friday in the West Bengal city of Kolkata, accusing state authorities of failing to protect the family after the 16-year-old girl went to police in October to report she had been raped twice by the same gang.
The state's urban development minister defended the police response, noting that six suspects had been arrested in the rapes and another two for allegedly setting the girl on fire.
"The state government has taken appropriate action in this case," said the minister, Firhad Hakim.
The girl reported being gang raped and left in a field near her home in late October in the Madhyamgram suburb of Kolkata, formerly Calcutta. The next day she was allegedly abducted by the same gang and raped again before being left unconscious by railway tracks, police said.
The girl's father, a taxi driver, said last week that his daughter was set on fire on Dec. 23 after being threatened with violence if she did not withdraw her police complaint. She died from her injuries on Wednesday.
The father is demanding that federal investigators take charge of the case. Neither the girl nor her father is being named by Indian media under laws guarding the identity of rape victims.
Last month, India marked the one-year anniversary of the fatal gang rape of a 23-year-old woman on a moving bus in New Delhi that triggered nationwide protests.
The outrage spurred the government to adopt more stringent laws that doubled prison terms for rape to 20 years and criminalized voyeurism, stalking, acid attacks and the trafficking of women. Fast-track courts have been created for rape cases.
Four attackers in the New Delhi case were sentenced to death and a juvenile was sent to a reform center for three years.[Full story]


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We're at work on a project chronicling that since the early 1990s American working-class youth face declining chances of equal opportunity .
We were thus intrigued by a 8/20/12 PBS NewsHour story – "In Rhode Island, Reinventing Summer School to Prevent Kids' Learning Loss" — concerning efforts to combat summertime achievement gaps.
But the visuals were highly troubling. While the intro to the story correctly reported that this was about poverty, not race, the pictures were virtually all of African American kids, giving the impression that most if not all of the poor in America are black.
We brought this to their attention and the education correspondent for the NewsHour, John Merrow. [He graciously admitted that the story could have been edited better and his take on the whole episode is on his "Learning Matters" blog.]
There are three things worth amplifying beyond Merrow's blog post:
1) Just how off Americans (including well-educated Americans) are on the colors of poverty;
2) how the continued misportrayal of American poor as "non-white" helps continue the trope of poverty equaling race and makes poor whites more invisible; and
3) How mis-coloring "poverty" undermines a public response to the problem.
Point #1: The national expert on this issue is Princeton scholar Martin Gilens. Here is Gilens' summary of his findings in a landmark 1996 article (cited below):
Over the past decades, the black urban poor have come to dominate public images of poverty. Surveys show that the American public dramatically exaggerates the proportion of African Americans among the poor and that such misperceptions are associated with greater opposition to welfare. In this article I examine the relationship between news media portrayals and public images of poverty. I find that network TV news and weekly newsmagazines portray the poor as substantially more black than is really the case.
More recent studies have fully confirmed Gilens' original findings. In fact, according to a 2000 CBS News poll, only 18% of Americans know that most poor people are white!
Moreover, our own analysis suggests that the misperception may be slightly greater among college-educated whites than among less educated whites, perhaps because the less-educated whites are actually more likely to know poor folks.
Well-educated whites (college graduates) think blacks make up over half of folks on poverty! (According to the 1991 National Race and Politics Survey).
The right number? Blacks comprise only 23% of folks in poverty in the US (according to 2010 Census estimates, Table 4 in the above link).
Point #2: The invisibility of the poor whites in media accounts and hence (according to Gilens) in the resulting public image of American poverty hurts poor whites (by undermining any potential impetus to respond to their plight) and perpetuates the trope that poverty equals poor non-whites. Politicians and concerned citizens can't effectively talk about and think about responding to the problem of American poverty if they can't picture what American poverty looks like.
Point #3: The progressive NewsHour surely aims to encourage viewers to take policy or direct action to thwart the poverty-based educational gaps the story describes. Ironically, Gilens' book shows in great detail that support for help to the poor is dramatically undermined by this media distortion in who is poor. Namely, the fact that Americans misperceive that most of the American poor are black, makes them less inclined to respond. With visuals that accurately show the whiteness of poverty in America, media outlets could help overcome this crucial, irrational impediment to effective action against class disadvantage in America.
For more detail on Gilens' findings, see:
– Martin Gilens, "Race and Poverty in America: Public Misperceptions and the American News Media," Public Opinion Quarterly (1996) 60:515-541
– Martin Gillen's 1999 book Why Americans Hate Welfare: Race, Media, and the Politics of Anti-Poverty Policy. University of Chicago Press.
More recent citations: van Doorn, Bas W. "Media Portrayals of Poverty and Race in Pre- and Post-Welfare Reform America." Portland, OR: Western Political Science Association Annual Meetings, 2012.
Clawson, Rosalee A., and Rakyua Trice. 2000. "Poverty as We Know It – Media Portrayals of the Poor." Public Opinion Quarterly 64(1), no. 1: 53-64.
See NewsHour story "In Rhode Island, Reinventing Summer School to Prevent Kids' Learning Loss" [Note: the NewsHour has vowed to repost video that attempts to correct their incorrect portrayal so what you see may not be the original version that aired, but instead their attempt to correct the original misrepresentation of American poverty.]


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Romsey's MP, Caroline Nokes, was among the Hampshire Tories voting against the Government's plans to legalise gay marriage this week.
The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill was passed with a majority of 225 (400-175), thanks to the overwhelming backing of Labour and the Liberal Democrats.
Other Tories joining Mrs Nokes in the "no" lobby were Julian Lewis (New Forest East), Steve Brine (Winchester), Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight) and Caroline Dinenage (Gosport).
Mrs Nokes protested that despite Government promises of a "quadruple lock" of legal protections, churches could face a court challenge if they refused to allow gay couples to marry there.
She said: "The vast majority of my constituents opposed gay marriage," adding: "I am not convinced the safeguards sought by the Church of England have been guaranteed."
John Denham (Southampton Itchen) and Alan Whitehead (Southampton Test) were among the vast majority of Labour MPs who voted for the bill.
Mr Denham said: "I'm in favour. I believe that gay couples should be able to celebrate their long-term love and commitment to each other as straight couples can do."


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The second annual "Billiards for Books" benefit for Friends of the Youngstown Free Library took place last Saturday at Brennan's Irish Pub on Main Street in the village.
"All went very well, excellent. Everyone had a wonderful time and all matches went smoothly. No going out to the alley to settle things was required," said organizer Angelo Sarkees. "We had a total of 13 teams, slightly less than last year. We did manage to raise about the same amount, around $600. The money goes to the Friends of the Youngstown Free Library. Again, thanks for your help and support." (photos by Wayne Peters)


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Fall Foliage Finds for Columbus Day weekend
Just in time for the Columbus Day weekend, most of central and southern New Hampshire foliage is in its glory.
Cued up for New Hampshire's tourism economy, the foliage is stepping on stage in spectacular form, with the reds and oranges of maples and the golds against green capturing the eye.
From just about the town line in Plymouth south on Route 93 and on Route 89 when you enter the state in Lebanon from Vermont, the foliage is peaking.
It is past peak in almost all areas of the Great North Woods and much of the White Mountains, but the Lakes Region and Dartmouth Lake Sunapee Region are a different matter.
They are peaking and also in the Monadnock Region, folks are impressed by the sharp color. Visitors from around the country and the world are here and we are giving them a good show.
Below is the state fall foliage report for Oct. 10, 2013. Get out there and have fun!
Great North Woods
Percentage peak: Past peak in almost all areas.
All that remains is some residual browns and yellows on all the hardwood trees. A great photo opportunity is the Androscoggin River from Main Street in Gorham. Although not as colorful as last week, the drive up Route 3 is still worth a trip to view the beautiful landscape and scenery of the North Country.
White Mountains
Percentage peak: 80-100 percent in Gorham, Shelburne. 100 percent in North Conway, Jackson.
The North Conway and Jackson areas are at peak, or just past, Try Jefferson Notch Road in Jefferson. The higher elevation still has some color and beautiful views along the winding road. And on Cherry Mountain Road you'll climb to stunning views and higher-elevation colors. As you drive along Routes 2, 115, and 116, there are still patches of color to be found in yellows and light orange. A recommended driving loop from the Gorham area is Route 16 south to Route 302 west, to Bear Notch Road, to the Kanc west, to I-93 and then back north along Route 3 to Route 115 and finally Rte 2 back into Gorham.
Percentage peak: 80 percent in Winchester, Fitzwilliam, Swanzey and Richmond.
Peak foliage in the Monadnock region was cut a bit short by Monday's rain and wind, but the good news is that the leaves that remain have great color and show every sign of sticking around. Hardest hit areas were the low, wet areas where the foliage was most mature, but the upland areas retain the best color with sugar maples in beautiful shades of bright yellow and orange. Yellow seems to be the prominent color in many areas throughout the region, covering the hillsides in a golden hue. In Troy, views of Mount Monadnock are stunning right now, with a variety of colors showing in the lower elevations.
Also Route 119 from Winchester through Fitzwilliam is beautiful any time of day with pops of color everywhere you look! Route 32 through Swanzey and Richmond has quite a bit of color right now as well with many different photo opportunities to hop out of the car and take advantage of along the way. Route 12 from Keene south to Fitzwilliam provides opportunities to see many shades of yellow right now.
Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee
Percentage peak: 100 percent in Sunapee, Newbury, Warner, Lebanon and Bradford.
Think patchwork quilts, and that is what the hills look like around here. In spite of the heavy rain and wind this week there are still plenty of leaves on the trees for this long weekend of viewing.
The hills in Claremont are a beautiful display of burnt orange, dark red, and yellow and should be at peak or just past this weekend. The small towns like Cornish and Charlestown that sit alongside the Connecticut River are picturesque and the foliage in the surrounding valleys is quite a sight.
Drive along the Connecticut River. It is quite scenic right now. Try Route 10 north of Hanover for beautiful foliage viewing. Or head south on Route 12a for more magnificent views of the river.
Merrimack Valley
Percentage peak: 50 percent in Goffstown, New Boston, Dunbarton. 75 percent in Northwood, Epsom, Concord. 80 percent in Derry, Manchester, Allenstown, Pembroke.
In the Goffstown area, look for yellows and bronzes with reds and oranges sprinkled into the mix. Traveling from Northwood through Epsom toward Concord, you can see reds, oranges and yellows on the trees, with a fair number of leaves on the ground now too. Color has muted a bit in Derry, but there are still lots of yellows and oranges to be seen.
Route 3 north from Nashua to Bedford/Manchester is showing a nice mix of all colors- reds, yellows, oranges, light greens, and browns. On Route 13 in Dunbarton, there are spectacular views of the Monadnock region to the west, displaying a beautiful mix of colors off on the horizon.
On Route 13 between Goffstown and New Boston, dark green is hanging in there, but bursts of colors along the river make for incredible photo opportunities.
Route 4 around Northwood and Epsom will take you past trees showing burnt orange and gold, with some red mixed in as well. Route 28 between Derry and Manchester has yellow and orange trees, along with some reds by the streams, and Route 102 in Derry and Chester has nice color on the higher hills.
Percentage peak: 100 percent in Madison, Freedom and Ossipee. 80 percent in Plymouth.
Foliage is at peak in many parts of this region and the scenery is pure New Hampshire. Although some leaves washed away in the big storm on Monday, most of the orange and gold still shows well in contrast to the dark evergreens. The coming weekend should hit peak color in the greater Plymouth area. There seems to be more color closer to roads, rivers and swamps, with green still persisting in the hills. Poplars and birches are now hitting their peak colors, while ash and a few other hardwoods are fairly done for the season.
Drive Route 153 in East Madison and Freedom and Route 16 through Ossipee. A drive around Newfound Lake is pretty right now. Fall colors can also be seen driving through Hebron, Alexandria and Bristol.
If you are not going to the Sandwich Fair, avoid that route as it will be crowded.
Cummings Beach parking area in Bristol looking north up the length of Newfound Lake is a great photo opportunity. A real adventurous route for a great payoff of back road sightseeing is Sandwich Notch Road. This does turn into a dirt road, but is very drivable and well-traveled.
Route 28 toward the Lakes has some good color, close to the road, between Barnstead and Alton. In general, most roads in the Lakes Region will provide some notable foliage for the Columbus Day weekend.
Percentage peak: 80 percent Portsmouth, Dover. 75 percent in Durham, Lee, Madbury
Still a few days from peak, the leaves remain in the Seacoast will be great viewing for Columbus Day weekend. Individual maples in downtown Portsmouth are nice as is the garden of the John Paul Jones House.
A nice area route is heading east in Northwood, take a right onto Rte 152 and travel across the North River, to Rte 125. Return to Rte 4 by turning left on Rte 125 to the circle and then east past UNH in Durham to the Great Bay.


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5 Steps to Perfect Portion Control
By A.J. Jacobs
Author of Drop Dead Healthy
My kids and I recently watched the movie Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. This is the one where giant steaks, ice cream scoops, pancakes and, of course, meatballs plummet from the sky and terrorize a town. It was funny. But it with a few tweaks, it could be turned into a terrifying documentary. OK, a lot of tweaks. Food isn't falling from the sky. But food is getting bigger and bigger and terrorizing America.
In recent years, portions have experienced a puberty-like growth spurt. Consider: In 1916, a bottle of Coca-cola was 6.5 ounces. Today, it's 20 ounces. A hamburger used to be about 300 calories. Now you can enjoy Hardees's Monster Thickburger with 1,420 calories. (The average man should eat about 2,500 calories a day).
This portion inflation is why nutritionists offer the following sage counsel to Americans: Stop eating so much damn food. Below are the five best ways I found to tame the portion while writing Drop Dead Healthy.
Small plates, small forks, small everything. Pretend you are a Smurf, or a hobbit or Tom Cruise. What I'm saying is, someone tiny. Studies show that smaller plates mean smaller portions. I'm a fan of my sons' Finding Nemo plates. I took it a step further and now eat with small forks and spoons. It slows my eating down and I am less likely to overgorge. (In other plate news, one recent study showed that colored plates often led to smaller portions, especially if the color contrasts with the food, which makes the food stand out visually.)
VIDEO: A.J. Jacobs Shares 3 Quick Tips to Improve Your Health
Practice Chewdaism. We are a nation of underchewers. Studies show that thorough chewing is healthier for two reasons. First, you get more nutrients from your meal. Second, and more important, you can't eat as quickly, which allows time for stomach to send the "I'm full" message to the brain. (Which takes an absurd 20 minutes). You end up eating less.
You can find radical pro-chewing activists on the Internet (they're the ones who coined the term Chewdaism, not me) who recommend up to 100 chews. Which is insane. It takes a day and a half to eat a sandwich. But I strive for 15.
An apple a day keeps the hunger away. A Penn State study showed that those who ate an apple before lunch consumed 187 fewer calories at lunch than those who ate applesauce. Also, soup and cayenne pepper have been shown to lower appetite. So have a cayenne soup with apple chunks. Good eatin'.
Never eat out of the container. The Cornell psychologist Brian Wansink wrote a book called Mindless Eating, which, as the title suggests, is about our tendency to trowel food thoughtlessly into our always-open mouths. To battle this, he says it's important to create "pause points"—visual cues that slow us down. It's why I repackage those monster bags of tortilla chips from Costco into little plastic Ziploc bags. I finish my seven-chip bag, and my brain figures, "Well, that was a portion. I might as well stop." My brain is a sucker.
Don't multitask. Studies show that we eat up to 71 percent more when we're watching TV. Interestingly, that number varies depending on what show we're watching; one study found that subjects who watched Letterman ate more than those who watched Leno. Depending on your interpretation, this is good for Letterman (his shows are so interesting, we forget to stop eating) or bad for Letterman (his audience is fatter and will soon die).


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There is a need to step back and think strategically about your social customer service offering before you leap in and do it.
By now, most brands realise that they can't ignore it. They will probably have seen the case studies of people getting social customer service right and feel a slight sense of panic about getting it wrong as barely a week goes past without a social customer service failure going viral.
But as Luke Brynley-Jones outlines in the previous link, though they know it's important, so many companies are a long way off developing a coherent approach here, and for a multitude of reasons.
There is of course a need to step back and think strategically about your social customer service offering before you leap in and do it. Easier said than done, of course; and you'll need to make sure that you have an interim offering of basic monitoring and response (even if that response is a request to call or email) in the interim.
It's not a comprehensive list, but we've been thinking about some of the things you need to consider before you put a social customer service strategy in place. It would be great to hear any other suggestions below.
1. How you'll listen
And where you'll listen, and by what means. Searching for brand terms is a given, but how far you want your related terms to cover? At a certain point, you'll have more information than you can usefully interpret and act on within a reasonable time period.
Doing some research into these tolerances is necessary to understand how many staff you'll need, how they'll need to be trained and how your response times will work. This will also help you work out what software you'll need to get the information in the first place.
2. The means of engagement
Once you know how you're going to listen, you need to know how to respond. Of course you'll want to deal with customers in the channel in which they instigated conversation and establish a tone of voice.
But how much will you take offline? What about the community support model, where users and fans can help each other? (The model that giffgaff has built its entire business on, and one that BT uses – giving community members the chance to respond before replying in an official capacity.)
You also need to consider how to weight and prioritise responses. Twitter uses may shout loudly but does that mean customers calling in deserve lower priority?
3. How you empower your team
It's about more than simply putting a social team into a call centre or training your call centre staff on social. It's also about levels of autonomy and approval that staff engaging with customers on social media will be permitted.
Will you develop a Twelpforce, will your team have the power to make offers of compensation, or are you imagining having legal teams sign off all tweets?
4. How you'll measure it
There are many methods you can use to measure the effectiveness of your activities – cost per resolution, speed of resolution, positive tweets/discussions about resolution and more, depending on what matters to you.
However, it's really important to benchmark social customer services against other customer service channels and evaluate it on a level playing field.
5. Global or local
Global accounts present many challenges: languages, local market take-up of different social channels (Sina Weibo in China, anyone?) and different ways that social is used.
Multiple local accounts will probably need to show some degree of similarity and co-ordination of operation, but a single global account will need to be able to handle these nuances.
6. Single or multiple channels?
Will your main brand presence on Twitter be used to handle customer service queries (like Vodafone here), or will you separate the channels for marketing messages and customer service? What about different business divisions? How many Twitter handles can you handle?
7. 24/7 or working hours?
Do you have the facility or inclination to open your customer service channels 24/7? There's not necessarily a right or wrong answer here. KLM's oft-quoted social customer service channels are open all hours, but not all brands have the resources for this.
ASB Bank in New Zealand has a 'virtual branch' on Facebook that clearly states its 'opening hours'. If you visit the virtual branch outside these hours, you'll see a friendly explanation video and a 'closed' sign, with details of how to resolve your query when the 'branch' opens again.
8. Turnaround times
Realistic turnaround times will depend on resources and on taking all of the above points into consideration.
You'll need to assess likely levels of demand and resources, and though best practice is to respond within minutes or within an hour, this way you can at least launch your social customer services offering with a realistic, transparent and publicised turnaround time.
Knowing the factors that influence this mean you'll also be able to amend resolution times when crises occur. Going into this with your eyes open and letting customers do the same is key.
What else do brands need to consider as they set up their social customer service offerings?


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Travel advice for Aberdeen fans going to the Scottish Cup Final
ScotRail has confirmed it is adding extra carriages to key trains to help Aberdeen fans get to the Aberdeen V Celtic Scottish Cup final at Hampden Park on 21 May.
Extra carriages will be added on what are predicted to be eight of the busiest services between Aberdeen and Glasgow. To avoid disappointment, the ScotRail Alliance is advising customers to book ahead and reserve seats for their journeys now, as queueing systems will be in operation and only fans with train reservations will be guaranteed boarding.
Those wishing to avoid the crowds may want to travel on the 0526 and 0634 departures from Aberdeen, although these are also expected to be much busier than usual.
As with all special event trains, alcohol bans will be in place and extra staff will be at key locations across the network to assist.
A ScotRail Alliance spokesperson said: "We're doing everything we can to make sure the Dons are well represented at Hampden. Please be on the ball and get to the station early, as trains will be extremely busy.
"To help things go smoothly, please plan ahead and follow instructions from staff."
A spokesperson for Aberdeen Football Club said: "We're delighted to be working in partnership again with ScotRail in ensuring that as many of the Red Army as possible have a choice of transport mode that can get them to and from Hampden on the 27th May to enhance what is always a special day out for all the family and one that we have not been in a position to enjoy for 17 years."
A queuing system will be in place at Aberdeen, Glasgow Central, Mount Florida and Glasgow Queen Street stations and all customers are asked to allow themselves plenty of time to catch their trains.
The following trains will have additional carriages.
From Aberdeen:
- 0739 (arrives Glasgow 1015)
- 0842 (arrives Glasgow 1115)
- 0935 (arrives Glasgow 1216)
- 1038 (arrives Glasgow 1315)
From Glasgow Queen Street:
- 1841 (arrives Aberdeen 2122)
- 1941 (arrives Aberdeen 2215)
- 2041 (arrives Aberdeen 2322)
- 2142 (arrives Aberdeen 0025)


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Governor continues to urge residents to stay off the roads
Governor Dannel P. Malloy today announced that his request for a presidential emergency declaration in the wake of Friday's historic winter storm has been approved. In addition, he is urging residents to continue staying off the roads today unless absolutely necessary.
"This declaration will provide much needed assistance to the state and our towns and cities as we continue to recover from this historic winter storm," said Governor Malloy. "While the ban on travel has been lifted, we are continuing to urge residents to stay off the roads, if at all possible. This is particularly true for tractor trailers. Every time someone gets stuck, it is preventing plows from doing their jobs."
This emergency declaration provides for direct federal assistance, including possible snow removal equipment and personnel, power generation, and other commodities. The declaration also provides federal disaster funding for 75 percent of the cost of emergency protective measures incurred by municipalities, state agencies, and eligible non profits for a 48 hour period.
Governor Malloy also stressed the following:
- Due to road conditions and limited parking availability, residents should begin making plans to carpool to work Monday morning, particularly with state employees.
- Clean snow off the roofs of buildings, especially if they are flat tops. Also, make sure drainage areas are clear. With precipitation predicted for Monday, this is an especially important issue to address today.
- Truckers are urged to delay travel until the evening hours, if at all possible, so that crews can continue road clearance efforts.
- Calling 2-1-1 should be used to find locations of shelters and warming stations only. 2-1-1 does not have information on when streets will be plowed. Please do not call 2-1-1 for plowing information.
- Residents should please remember that our state and city public works personnel are working very hard to get our roads clear. This was a historic storm, and the recovery effort is going to take some time.


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STRANGE BUT TRUE- Drop dead: Hanging not a happy way to go
Q. Over the centuries, prisoners condemned to be hanged by the neck have had plenty to worry about. Have the hangmen/executioners had anything to worry about? –G. Gilmore
A. Old-fashioned "short drop" executions caused death by strangulation as the rope pressed on the windpipe and arteries to the brain, a 10-second demise, says New Scientist magazine. Alas, that was only if the noose was correctly applied. Witnesses of public hangings often reported victims "dancing" in pain at the end of the rope, struggling violently for many minutes as they asphyxiated. In some cases strugglers were cut down and resuscitated, even after 15 minutes!
When public hangings were outlawed in Britain in 1868, the "long-drop" method took over with a lengthy rope to build up greater speed to assure a more "merciful" breaking of the neck. Here the length had to be tailored to the victim's weight, as too great a force "could rip the head clean off, a professionally embarrassing outcome for the hangman."
Yet an analysis as late as 1992 of the remains of 34 prisoners found that only in about half of cases was the cause of death at least partially spinal trauma, with a fifth showing the classic "hangman's fracture." The rest died in part from asphyxiation. But, adds Canadian anthropologist Michael Spence, who studied U.S. victims, the trauma of the drop would have rapidly rendered all of them unconscious anyway. "What the hangmen were looking for was quick cessation of activity, and they knew enough about their craft to ensure that happened. The thing they feared most was decapitation."
Q. Why is the letter 'W' called a double-U instead of a double-V? It sure looks like a double-V. Who mixed up these two letters in the first place? –H. Spencer
A. Norman scribes in the 11th century introduced the "w" to replace the runic symbol "wynn" from Old English, says David Crystal in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language. It got the name "double-U" because in Middle English "v" and "u" were interchangeable forms, with scribes writing "uu" for the /w/ sound. This old double-identity is still evident in cognate pairs such as flour/flower and suede/Swede (from askoxford.com).
Oddly, the "w" is the only English letter name with more than one syllable, says Wikipedia.org, giving the Web's ubiquitous nine-syllable initialism "www" the irony of being an abbreviation with three times as many syllables as the unabbreviated form World Wide Web.
Q. Don't even think about trying to top this one, but what's the record for skid marks on a public road? –G. Davis
A. Set in 1960 by a Jaguar driver on England's M1 highway, the marks were 290 meters (950 ft) long, says Jearl Walker in The Flying Circus of Physics. In court, the speed at wheellock was alleged to be 160 kilometers per hour (100 mph), though later calculations put it at more like 225 kph (140 mph).
Yet these skid marks pale next to those left by Craig Breedlove in October 1964 at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats, who drove his rocket-powered "Spirit of America" through a measured mile at about 540 mph. To slow, he released a parachute, but its cord snapped; his second chute also failed. His brakes did little more than leave 6-mile-long skid marks before burning out. Still traveling at 500 mph, the vehicle rode up and over an embankment and plummeted nose down at 160 mph into a pool of brine five meters deep. Firmly strapped into his seat, Breedlove nearly drowned. Yet he had broken the 500-mile-per-hour barrier with an average speed of 526 mph, inadvertently setting the skid-mark record as well.
Q. Are there truly people who never swear? –M. Stuart
A. Dang unlikely! All the world swears; it's just that people swear in highly different ways, says David Crystal in Words, Words, Words. As a natural response to an emotional state, "swearing is not so much a 'use' of language as an outburst, an explosion, which gives relief to a surge of energy." As such it can be a substitute for an aggressive bodily response and thus ironically may help avert a fight.
It's wrong to look for much meaning in swear words, which can be as simple as "gosh" or "golly." If we're politely brought up, we'll moderate our choice of words, perhaps using "Oh, shucks" or "Oh, sugar" instead of "Oh, God" or something stronger.
Of course, swearing fashions change, and what might raise eyebrows for one generation won't for another. For example, the British "bloody"– as in "not bloody likely"– was regarded as "not fit for decent society" 100 years ago, but by the late 20th century Prince Charles himself was using the word publicly. Hence, some TV stations offer commentator guidelines, such as rating a word like "God" as "fine, but be careful of context," or cautioning that words of bigotry are "generally unuseable unless cleared with senior management."
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I loved the little monster treat boxes, those are so adorable. I am sad that you don't offer the clear treat boxes by themselves.
This is fantastic! Ordered the kit & some of the extra supplies too! Can't wait to get started! Hope you can do this every year!
loved your halloween cards ty for shareing,
I love that you use so many different elements!
Loved this webisode!!! I have looked at it at least 4 times now. You all are the best!!!!
Paper Wishes always goes the extra mile, and you did it again with a wonderfully fun webisode full of creative ideas!! Thank you Paulette and Gail for great ideas and wonderful supplies. Paper Wishes offers SO much for their customers, great products, AND great customer service!!
Well ladies, you did it again. Another GREAT webisode. My eyes lit up when I saw that witch card. WOW!!! I've said it before, and I'll say it again, if you want great ideas, go to Paper Wishes.
Gail, that Wicked Witch card is THE coolest card I've ever seen! Quite expensive to make, but worth it for the right person (Wizard of Oz fan = me!). I'm going to try to make it with Halloween dazzles (no encrusted jewels, stamps or washi tape, which I don't have). It will still be dynamite! LOVE your website and products, and thanks for the spooky bonus webisode! Great customer service today too!
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Great job you two! And by the way, Gail, HAPPY ANNIVERSARY! Since last year's Halloween webisode until now, you have really done a great job. Keep it up!
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Gail, you do such awesome projects.
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I write this as our policymakers are bickering about taxes and pending cuts in spending, dragging us perilously closer to that yawning "fiscal cliff" (nerve wracking enough for me, as I'm afraid of heights). Possible self-inflicted economic injury aside, we don't need a crystal ball or Magic Eight Ball to get an idea of how things are looking for 2013. We don't need these things because we asked you, and you told us.
Every summer, under our parent company, Cincinnati-based Gardner Business Media, we survey our readers about what they plan to buy in the way of capital equipment for the upcoming year. We call this our Plastics Processing Capital Spending Survey & Forecast. We mailed it to 5000 of our subscribers and received more than 500 replies.
The survey delves into equipment of virtually all types, but let me bottom-line it for you: According to the projections we're making based on your input, investment in primary processing equipment in 2013 will increase by more than 2% from 2012. While that might not seem to be anything to get too excited about, consider that in 2012 you invested more money in primary processing than you did at any time since 2008.
Plastics Technology economic columnist Bill Wood of Mountaintop Economics and Research has more insights to share that support what we found out from you. In a recent blog that appeared on the website of our sister publication, MoldMaking Technology magazine (moldmakingtechnology.com), Wood reported that the Census Bureau's data on the value of plastics product shipments through the third quarter of 2012 was up 4% from the year before. "The total volume of plastics products manufactured in the U.S. is still about two years away from the pre-recession levels, but the total dollar value of shipments of plastics products is near the all-time high," Wood wrote.
He expects 2012 to finish 3% above 2011 in volume of plastics products processed. As for 2013, Wood writes that "the industry's capacity utilization rate will hold mostly steady at current levels through the first quarter, and it will then rise. In 2013, the total volume of plastics products manufactured in the U.S. will grow by 5% and the capacity utilization rate will exceed 80% by year's end (it was at about 78% in 2012)." Capacity utilization of 80-85% usually triggers investment in new equipment.
Wood writes our monthly "Wood on Plastics" column, in which he analyzes trends in major end-markets for plastics. He is basing his projections for 2013 in large part on growth in the housing market. "The end-markets related to the housing sector (appliances and retail sales) are past their cyclical bottoms and are both expected to rebound in 2013," he states. Besides which, he notes, packaging, automotive, medical, and electronic products will continue to grow this year.
Processors should expect the cost of energy and plastics resins to increase as the overall economy rebounds, Wood states. But this could have a positive impact on machinery sales, as builders of all types of equipment continue to roll out new designs that are more energy efficient while developing processing technologies that permit more judicious use of material.
During 2012 my colleagues and I visited more than 20 plastics processing plants and spoke to dozens more. Those that are thriving have shrewdly invested in new technology that gives their products an edge in the marketplace—either by increasing quality or throughput or both—and have increased their bottom line to boot. I think there is a lesson to be learned there.


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