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On 2/2/2023 at 9:35 AM, Longboard Horn said:

https://rivercitypost.org/student-puts-laxatives-in-drinks-and-sends-the-entire-school-into-a-frenzy/

The dude who pulled that prank is going to have book thrown at him. Definitely see prison time in his future.

This dude is facing up to 19 years for poisoning 8 homeless people. The student poisoned an entire school. He going away for much longer methinks.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53017919

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I hate cyclist as much as anyone but this seems a little excessive.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/california-cyclist-dies-after-hit-car-stabbed-driver/story?id=96870529

 California cyclist died on Thursday after being struck by a car and then stabbed to death by the driver, authorities said.

The alleged attack occurred at around 3 p.m. PT near the intersection of the Pacific Coast Highway and Crown Valley Parkway in Dana Point, a cliffside beach town located in Southern California's Orange County, some 60 miles southwest of Los Angeles. Deputies arrived at the scene to find a cyclist -- identified as 58-year-old Michael John Mammone -- "lying in the intersection suffering from severe injuries," the Orange County Sheriff's Department said in a press release.

Mammone was transported to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead, according to the sheriff's department. He worked as an emergency room physician at Providence Mission Hospital in Laguna Beach, according to Los Angeles ABC station KABC.

Investigators learned that Mammone had been riding his bicycle northbound on the scenic Pacific Coast Highway when he was hit from behind by a vehicle. The driver -- identified as 39-year-old Vanroy Evan Smith, of Long Beach -- then got out of the car and "assaulted Mammone with a knife," the sheriff's department said.

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MIT doing research on the important things in life.

MIT Scientists Twist Apart More Than 1,000 Oreos in Search for Perfect Method

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It’s safe to say many people eat Oreos the same way. They twist them apart, then consume the cookie as two separate creme-covered wafers.

Yet more than a century after the Oreo’s inception, many connoisseurs haven’t solved a frustrating problem: how to twist it so both wafers end up with filling on them.

 

Michelle Deignan, vice president of Oreo in the U.S., said there’s no secret method. That, it seems, made it a worthy challenge for some scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

“I’ve always been annoyed that I have to twist them apart and then push creme from one side onto the other,” said Crystal Owens, a Ph.D. candidate in MIT’s mechanical engineering department.

She led a group of researchers on a quest to figure out if there was a trick to getting the creme to glom onto both halves.

Usually, Ms. Owens studies materials that could be used as ink for 3-D printing, squishing them between two counter-rotating metal plates in a device known as a rheometer to study how the fluids deform and respond to torsion, or twisting forces.

One day during the Covid-19 lockdown in 2021, she said, “we just kind of realized that this is a perfect analogy for what happens when you try to twist open an Oreo.” 

So she and her colleagues set out to discover if there was a solution to the cookie conundrum. 

In a recent study, they glued Oreos of various flavors to the rheometer, then twisted them at different speeds. Materials with similar mechanical properties to Oreo creme—toothpaste, yogurt, ice cream—split down the middle when subjected to enough torsion, Ms. Owens said.

After putting more than 1,000 Oreos to the test, the researchers discovered that the fickle filling stuck to just one wafer about 80% of the time.

And the speed of the twisting didn’t matter. Even at the rheometer’s slowest twisting speed, which took about five minutes to separate the halves, the creme stayed on one side. At the maximum speed—about 100 times faster than a person can twist—the creme flew off both halves, Ms. Owens said.

“We also tested the cookies by hand—twisting, peeling, pressing, sliding and doing other basic motions to get an Oreo apart,” she said. “There was no combination of anything that we could do by hand or in the rheometer that changed anything in our results.”

That suggests the creme is stronger than it is sticky, so is more likely to stay together than adhere to the wafer. 

She and her colleagues published their findings last April in the peer-reviewed journal Physics of Fluids. In their paper, they shared suggestions on how Oreo, which is owned by one of the world’s largest snacks companies, Mondelēz International, could tweak production to address the issue. 

One idea was to flip the wafers so that the more textured outside surface, which contains the word Oreo, would face inward, said Max Fan, an undergraduate in MIT’s department of mechanical engineering and co-author of the study. 

Another was to attach both wafers simultaneously to a blob of creme. Ms. Owens and her colleagues think that the wafer to which the filling is applied first has a tighter bond to the creme.

The company declined to share specifics on the Oreo manufacturing process, but Ms. Deignan said that Oreo “loved this data-informed creativity.”  

Thomas Schlathölter, a physicist at the Netherland’s University of Groningen who wasn’t involved in the study, had his university students try to replicate the MIT team’s results with Dutch Oreos. They twisted by hand, which may have affected the outcome, he said.

“To my surprise, many students observed a pretty even splitting of the filling,” Dr. Schlathölter said. “European Oreos seem to be different.” He thinks the difference is in the creme formula.

MIT’s Ms. Owens said she suspects the manufacturing process is different in Europe, not the recipe. Oreo’s Ms. Deignan had no explanation for the differing results.

Oreos are sold in more than 100 countries, and social media is filled with opinions about how best to eat them. One YouTube video with more than 13 million views, called “you’re eating Oreos WRONG”, shows a woman skewering the creme with a fork and drowning it in milk. Others involve using straws as pipettes to get the creme soggy.

Ms. Owens said she is looking to apply the same study concept to other snack foods, such as macarons, ice cream sandwiches and Nutter Butter cookies.

The Oreo research, she said, was a fun, easy way to make her regular physics and engineering work more accessible to the general public. She and Mr. Fan developed a simpler rheometer to test the cookies, which they dubbed an “Oreometer,” that people can 3D-print at home. It uses rubber bands and pennies to twist apart the cookie.

“For me this all started as a personal question,” Ms. Owens said. “But I guess everyone else was also thinking like, ‘Oh, let’s understand my Oreos better.’ ”

 

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According to the Washington Post, the "phantom cat shaver" — a nickname created for the mysterious culprit by British media — has been linked to shaving incidents involving at least 80 pets. Animals have been found with patches of their fur randomly shaved off in the Kent area since last year, per Animals Lost and Found in Kent Ltd.

https://people.com/pets/phantom-cat-shaver-in-england-cutting-cat-fur/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter

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Michigan man charged with assault for allegedly hitting clerk on head with frozen fish

https://abcnews.go.com/US/michigan-man-charged-assault-allegedly-hitting-clerk-head/story?id=98383371

"I never thought I'd have to say this, but if you assault someone with a fish in our county you will be prosecuted," Macomb County Prosecutor Peter Lucido said in a statement. "A frozen fish is dangerous if you use it to hit someone on the head."

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https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2023/04/03/brevard-man-wields-machete-at-bar-after-karaoke-request-denied-deputies-say/

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 A Brevard County man accused of pulling an 18-inch machete at a bar after being denied another karaoke song was arrested Sunday, according to the sheriff’s office.

Deputies responded to the bar shortly before 2 p.m. Sunday and found Jordan unsteady on his feet with bloodshot and glassy eyes, smelling strongly of alcohol, a probable cause affidavit shows.

Deputies spoke with a person who said Jordan pulled out the machete, which was concealed on his body, after someone denied his request to sing another karaoke song. The woman, afraid for the safety of others, coaxed the suspect into peacefully handing over the machete, the affidavit stated.

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https://www.fox43.com/article/news/crime/video-bus-drives-down-embankment-police-chase/521-65e90881-9c40-4ed5-a1d3-b58ccf19edbd

Police claim Saunders was completely nude at the time of his capture. Officers who searched the bus found the carcass of a deer in the back, according to police.

After being arrested, Saunders admitted to police he stole the bus earlier in the day, after crashing a BMW vehicle.

Saunders also said he had taken the vehicle and placed a deceased deer in the back. He told officers he was going to use the deer as fertilizer for his garden.

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