Superbus

Super-fast 'Superbus' could transform your commute

The superbus could be your new way of getting places. It's 15 meters long(50 feet) and it's capable of holding 23 passengers with a top speed of 155 mph. So, it's kind of like a subway.. but a lot faster. It's like a normal bus it can drive anywhere at anytime. They had a protype in 2011 but they have been working on it since 2004. I'm not exactly sure about it being an actual thing in the US but we will just have to find out. So, this is what the 21st centrury looks like no flying cars yet, just superbuses.

Student killed as friend watches via webcam

Quian Liu, a 23-yearold exchange student from Beijing, was attacked in her Toronto apartment on Friday. She was talking to a friend on her laptop webcam when a man knocked on her door and asked to use her phone. The man then attacked her as her friend watched helplessly from Beijing. Police arrived ten hours later and found her dead, naked from the waist down, and her laptop was missing. There were no obvious signs of sexual assault or severe trauma, but police are still investigating.

This story makes me sick. I feel for the friend who had to watch his friend being attacked, without being able to help. I also feel so bad for the girl because she was unexpectedly attacked, so far away from home! She had no one to help her! I really want to know if she knew the man who attacked her, and that guy better get caught!
article

Knit Your Own!

http://www.philly.com/philly/wires/ap/news/world/20110419_ap_royalknittingbookhaswillsandkateinstitches.html?c=r

It's pretty awesome that you can knit your very own Royal Wedding. You can knit William and Kate, Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip, Prince Harry, the Archbishop Canterbury and even one of the queen's corgi dogs :) I think it's a really unique idea for creating a stitch by stitch guide that creates a royal wedding. The book has sold over 50,000 copies so far. Also, if you can't knit, they have coloring books, paper dolls and a "William and Kate Dress-Up Dolly Book" available.

Did you guys hear that that Abe Lincoln guy was shot?!

Click

The Conspirator, directed by Robert Redford, is a movie detailing the trials of the accused assassins of President Lincoln. The movie focuses on one particular assassin though: Mary Surratt who [SPOILER ALERT] is the first woman that he US ever awarded the death penalty.

I saw this movie on Sunday night. Overall it was just an okay movie. Professionally it was very good; the film's script told the facts very well and the cinematography is the best I've seen all year, but it was missing something. In historical movies, it's difficult to get the audience to relate to the characters, which is really what watching a movie is all about. You want to feel emotionally attached to the main character somehow. This is really where the movie struggled. Overall, I think the reviewer of this article is being a little too harsh though. At the end, he criticizes the film's dialogue, calling it "ham-handed" (whatever that means). The dialogue was one of the strong points if you ask me. It's difficult to make character conversations interesting when the story takes place almost 150 years ago, and I was really never bored watching the movie.

Jawn Head... Babies?

Studies have shown that the widely used in the 80's term "crack babies" is now morphing into a new term "opiate babies". These kids are the babies of parents who use drugs while pregnant, and this is blowing up into  a very large concern throughout the United States. Personally, this makes me want to scream at these "parents" for doing this to a baby. They have them addicted before they even have a chance to live life any other way! They have to ween these babies off drugs, which I'm sure is torturous to them, and even after that I'm sure they go right back to the parents that harmed them in the first place! These babies should be ripped away from their parents from the instant that they find out the parents used while they were pregnant. It is completely ridiculous for this to become a trend in parents and I hope that we will take extreme action to stop it.
http://healthland.time.com/2011/04/11/are-oxycontin-babies-the-new-crack-babies/?xid=rss-topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+time%2Ftopstories+%28TIME%3A+Top+Stories%29

Flyers Win Game 3 in Buffalo

http://www.nhl.com/ice/recap.htm?id=2010030123

Even as the Philadelphia Flyers were in Buffalo to face the Sabres in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference Quarterfinals, chants of "Boosh" could be heard all the way back to Philly. Flyers coach, Peter Laviolette decided to put the veteran, Brian Boucher in net for Game 3. He relieved rookie, Sergei Bobrovsky after he let in 3 goals on 7 shots in the first period of Game 2. The decision proved to be a great one, as Boucher stopped 35 of 37 to help the Flyers defeat the Sabres, 4 to 2.

The Flyers entered a hostile Buffalo crowd on Monday night with the series tied at one game a piece. Jeff Carter got a lucky bounce off of a Buffalo defender to open the scoring in the first period. It was his first tally of the post-season. This goal was an important one for two reasons. One, it came on the power-play, an area of concern for the Flyers as they entered the play-offs. And two, it is always good for the road team to get the first goal of the game to take the home crowd out of it. Later in the period, Drew Stafford of the Sabres, shot one past Brian Boucher to knot the game at one. The game was tied at one at the end of the first period.

Danny Briere opened the scoring in the second period by firing a rocket past Buffalo goalie, Ryan Miller. It was a huge goal for Briere because he spent four seasons with the Sabres, before signing a contract with Philadelphia. Later in the frame, Kris Versteeg of Philadelphia sent a pass to Flyers captain Mike Richards, who faked a shot and fed a pass to Nikolay Zherdev to tip it home for a 3 1 Flyers lead. With two minutes left in the second, Buffalo's Nathan Gerbe netted a goal to cut the Flyer lead to 3 to 2.

Brian Boucher took over the game in the third period. He stopped all 11 shots from the Sabres and as time winded down, Kimmo Timonen iced the game with an empty net goal.

Game 4 is Wednesday night in Buffalo at 7:30.

In Honor of the Day of Silence. . .

Around the US gays and lesbians are coming out of the closet in intensely religious schools. Most of these schools are homophobic, and think that homosexuality is a sin. They are suggesting therapy for kids that have homosexual tendencies! Most of these kids have been repressed their whole lives, because they lived in a intensely christian homes. It was only when they went to college that they developed their feelings. They're all worried that scholarships will be taken away or they could be expelled but they want their voices to be heard in places where they need voices the most.

I think that anyone should be anything they want to, and I'm sure that God never said, "Hey, no gays." That's a erroneous assumption and is just homophobic people using the bible as an excuse to voice their opinions.



article here