Skowhegan student protest yields dozens of suspensions
The demonstrators say another group’s taunting inspired a class boycott.
Does he realize that acknowledging that he has a gang and that it’s called The Carnival Killers isn’t a great start?
That’s awesome that they boycott that, I know no one at my school would have the huevos.
Apparently your friend Emily has two dicks. That’s enough huevos right there…
How do you like them apples?
clete should also know that six balls. But I still don’t have the guts to protest.
This thread doesn’t make any sense.
Wait… what?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3235934.stm
Stroke gives woman British accent
An American woman has been left with a British accent after having a stroke.
This is despite the fact that Tiffany Roberts, 61, has never been to Britain. Her accent is a mixture of English cockney and West Country.
Doctors say Mrs Roberts, who was born and bred in Indiana, has a condition called foreign accent syndrome.
This rare condition occurs when part of the brain becomes damaged. This can follow a stroke or head injury. There have only been a few documented cases.
British accent
Mrs Roberts discovered she had a British accent after recovering her voice following a stroke in 1999.
“When people first started asking me where in England I was from and a family member asked why am I talking that way, that is when I became very conscious that a part of me had died during the stroke,” she said.
Four years on, she still struggles to convince people that she is a born and bred American.
"People in America accuse me of lying when I say I was born in Indiana.
"They would say ‘What are you saying that for? Where in England are you from?’
“I would insist that I am not.”
A tape recording of her voice before the stroke shows Mrs Roberts used to speak with a broad and relatively deep accent. She now speaks in a much higher pitch.
Doctors are still trying to find out exactly why foreign accent syndrome occurs.
But Dr Jack Ryalls of the University of Central Florida, said it is a real medical condition, which can occur after a patient has a brain injury.
“They recover to various degrees. When they don’t recover or when they only have very, very residual effects left its heard as an accent. Its a real phenomenon. It just hasn’t been documented very often.”
Scientists at Oxford University are among those trying to get to the bottom of the syndrome.
Last year, they confirmed that patients can develop a foreign accent without ever having been exposed to the accent.
This is because they haven’t really picked up the accent. Their speech patterns have changed. Injury to their brain causes them to lengthen syllables, alter their pitch or mispronounce sounds. These changes make it sound like they have picked up an accent. They may lengthen syllables.
The first case of foreign accent syndrome was reported in 1941 in Norway, after a young Norwegian woman suffered shrapnel injury to the brain during an air raid.
Initially, she had severe language problems from which she eventually recovered. However, she was left with what sounded like a strong German accent and was ostracized by her community.
wait…what???
can u put up a link to that article?? i wanna sow that to some firends.
http://www.kpho.com/news/13397618/detail.html
Crews Watch Home Burn, Family Forced To Pay
MESA, Ariz. – A Gilbert family whose home burned to the ground while town firefighters refused to douse the flames will get a bill from the private fire company that eventually responded.
The double-wide mobile home in an unincorporated county area on South Higley Road was destroyed Wednesday night.
Gilbert firefighters responded to the blaze and made sure no life was at risk, but did not fight the fire under a town policy because it is in an unincorporated area.
Instead, the Rural/Metro Fire Department went to the fire as a courtesy, but they came too late to save the home.
Rural/Metro officials said they’ll bill the family about $10,000 dollars anyway.
The county island fire protection issue has simmered for more than a year.
Rural/Metro ended subscription service, and county island residents voted against joining Gilbert to get protection. So for now, Gilbert officials say they will not get fire protection.
weak.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUKL3051670020070601?rpc=92
Dutch try to grow enviro-friendly meat in lab
UTRECHT, The Netherlands (Reuters) - Dutch researchers are trying to grow pork meat in a laboratory with the goal of feeding millions without the need to raise and slaughter animals.
“We’re trying to make meat without having to kill animals,” Bernard Roelen, a veterinary science professor at Utrecht University, said in an interview.
Although it is in its early stages, the idea is to replace harvesting meat from livestock with a process that eliminates the need for animal feed, transport, land use and the methane expelled by animals, which all hurt the environment, he said.
“Keeping animals just to eat them is in fact not so good for the environment,” said Roelen. “Animals need to grow, and animals produce many things that you do not eat.”
Developed nations are expected to consume an average of 43 kg per capita of poultry, beef, pork and other meats this year, an amount that rises around 2 percent annually, data from the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation shows.
Asked whether people would be repulsed by lab-grown meat, Roelen said he believed there would be enough demand, as much of what people eat today is already extensively processed, from the feed that animals consume to the conditions under which they are raised and the preparation of meat after slaughter.
“I can imagine that some people will have problems with it,” he said. “People might think it is artificial. But some people might not realize that some part of the meat they eat is artificial.”
Research is also under way in the United States, including one experiment funded by U.S. space agency NASA to see whether meat can be grown for astronauts during long space missions.
But it will take years before meat grown in labs and eventually factories reaches supermarket shelves. And so far, Roelen and his team have managed to grow only thin layers of cells that bear no resemblance to pork chops.
Under the process, researchers first isolate muscle stem cells, which have the ability to grow and multiply into muscle cells. Then they stimulate the cells to develop, give them nutrients and exercise them with electric current to build bulk.
After perfecting that process, scientists will then need to figure out how to layer tissues to add more bulk, since meat grown in petri dishes lacks the blood vessels needed to deliver nutrients through thick muscle fibers.
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a stop to animal cruelty would be nice though and eating a lot of meat isn’t very healthy. But you’ve got to wonder if frankenstein meat would be any better for the world.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6720177.stm
Doomed Mt Everest climb retraced
An international team of mountaineers is trying to climb Mount Everest using equipment designed in the 1920s.
They are retracing the steps of two British climbers who disappeared just short of the summit in 1924.
The climbers are hoping to recreate all but the last moments of George Mallory and Andrew Irvine’s famous climb.
They want to discover whether the two were actually able to reach the summit, nearly 30 years before Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay.
Mallory and Irvine were last sighted a few hundred metres short of the summit before bad weather closed in.
Iceman
The latter-day mountaineers will be using replica equipment - so instead of modern Gore-Tex waterproofs, they are braving the extreme conditions of the world’s highest mountain wearing clothes made from wool, silk and cotton.
The most dangerous part of the climb will come just before they reach the summit.
There, they will have to scale a 40m-high, near-vertical rock face called the Second Step.
It is so dangerous that permanent ladders have been fixed to the rock to help exhausted climbers.
But for this expedition, the ladders will be removed, so the climbers will have to go up using hemp ropes.
This is the last attempted climb of Everest before the monsoon rains hit Nepal.
A record number of climbers - 514 - have scaled the mountain this year.
They include a Nepali, who climbed the peak for a record-breaking 17th time, a 71-one-year-old Japanese teacher and a British man who made the first mobile phone call from the summit.
Many others tried but failed to reach the top.
They included a Dutchman, nicknamed the Iceman, who attempted the climb half-naked.