| SCRAM Bracelets Monitor Alcohol Use | | Posted Thursday, November 02, 2006 11:16:11 PM by Blog57 Team | | DuPage County, Ill., is the latest community to use alcohol-detecting ankle bracelets to monitor offenders prohibited from drinking, the Chicago Tribune reported Oct. 31. The Secure Continuous Remote Alcohol Monitoring (SCRAM) bracelet works by sampling the wearer's perspiration for ethanol vapor. Data from the device is transmitted 24 hours a day to law-enforcement officials via the Internet. If DuPage adopts the device, Illinois will become the 39th state where SCRAM bracelets are in use. DuPage County State's Attorney Joe Birkett said the cost of the bracelet would be comparable to the county's home-monitoring program and would keep low-level alcohol offenders out of jail. "If we can curb behavior without locking people up, we should explore that," Birkett said. .... | |
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| | | It's a sign of the times: what we wear can trigger an unholy row | | Posted Tuesday, October 17, 2006 3:01:27 AM by Blog57 Team | | MEMBERS of the NSW Police force need to make special applications to wear religious garb, it has not been an issue for teachers, and local airline employees can do as they like. The debate about religious clothing and jewellery has been reignited after British Airways banned a Heathrow check-in worker from displaying a silver cross the size of a five-cent coin. The airline has been threatened with boycotts and strikes, and nearly 400 staff have signed a petition of support for Nadia Eweida, 55, who says she has been forced to take unpaid leave for wearing the cross necklace. British Airways does not permit a cross to be visible, but allows Muslims and Sikhs to wear turbans, the hijab and religious bangles because, it says, they cannot be concealed.... | |
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| | | Bracelets make you stand out | | Posted Sunday, October 01, 2006 7:03:42 AM by Blog57 Team | | Cool rubber bracelets are hot in the dark, whether you're going to a concert or trick-or-treating: For $1.25, Jan's Hallmark stores are selling glow-in-the-dark Halloween bracelets. Pick from a couple of colors. I got mine at the Shiloh store. ... ... With utilities on the rise again this winter, stop by your local hardware store and check out the programmable thermostats you can easily install in your home. The Home Depot in O'Fallon has about six or seven varieties. All have digital readouts and can be programmed to alter the temperature in your house to suit your lifestyle each day of the week. The less expensive ones can be set for weekday changes and then for Saturday and Sunday. Prices start at about $29 and go up to about $80. ... ... I'm still trying to figure out how to reach the very tall wall above our staircase to the second floor.... | |
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| | | Environmental group sues EPA over lead in toy jewelry | | Posted Friday, September 15, 2006 3:05:07 AM by Blog57 Team | | SAN FRANCISCO The Sierra Club has sued the U-S Environmental Protection Agency to force the federal government to protect young children from toy jewelry made with lead. The San Francisco-based environmental group wants the agency to find ways to stop the sale or production of toy necklaces, bracelets and rings that contain lead, which is known to harm brain development in children. The E-P-A did not immediately respond to calls seeking comment on the lawsuit, which was filed today in federal court in San Francisco. The attorneys general in California and Illinois sent letters to the E-P-A supporting the Sierra Club complaint. Copyright 2006 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.... | |
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| | | Katrina refugees struggle on the road | | Posted Monday, September 11, 2006 5:02:57 PM by Blog57 Team | | GYPSUM - You might have seen Roy Gleiter resting on a cot tilted against his wagon of belongings on the west Interstate 70 on-ramp in Gypsum. The Hurricane Katrina refugee, his 68-year-old mother Debra Cowden and dog Poofer have been there a week, awaiting a ride to wherever. They don't panhandle or ask for food. More likely, Gleiter will offer strangers who sit with him a soda, bottled water or bracelets he wove. If you accept the bracelets, Gleiter doesn't want money in return. Instead, he asks for a promise: Help the homeless and hand out the other bracelets for others to do the same. "I'm putting a seed in the ground," Gleiter says, squinting in the harsh afternoon sun. "I can either become the evil or fight against it." Gleiter's sunburned face is marked by streaks of white skin around his eyes where wrinkles prevent the Colorado sun from penetrating.... | |
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| | | Bracelets back mayor, aid group | | Posted Thursday, August 24, 2006 4:59:29 PM by Blog57 Team | | The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's regional chapter on Thursday began selling black bracelets with gold lettering that read, "Everybody's mayor ... Bob O'Connor" in select locations throughout the city. Proceeds from the sale of the bracelets, which cost $2, will benefit the society, spokeswoman Maureen Durkin said. O'Connor, 61, was diagnosed last month with primary central nervous system lymphoma -- a rare brain cancer. .... | |
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| | | Caregivers Prepare For Hurricane | | Posted Monday, August 21, 2006 7:22:59 AM by Blog57 Team | | TAMPA - Say your mother suffers from Alzheimer's disease. A hurricane is approaching, and she must evacuate. But she refuses to leave. She's confused. Explaining why she would be safe just makes matters worse. Now she is confused and afraid. So instead of arguing, local social worker Nancy Teten suggests a little "therapeutic fibbing." In other words, lie. We're going to get some ice cream. We're going to get your hair done. We're going to see Aunt Susie. "It's OK to do this," said Teten, who works for the Johnnie B. Byrd Sr. Alzheimer's Center and Research Institute at the University of South Florida. People suffering from Alzheimer's or dementia cannot understand the danger they face from a hurricane, Teten said.... | |
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| | | Bracelets Help a Noble Cause | | Posted Wednesday, August 09, 2006 1:33:04 AM by Blog57 Team | | A new foundation kicks off Friday at the Green Bay Blizzard's final game of the regular season -- a foundation to help families of kids with cancer. It's called "A Noble Cause," founded by Brian Noble, part-owner of the Blizzard, and his wife Cindy. They found out firsthand what kids with cancer really need. During the past month, Brian and Cindy Nobles' kitchen has transformed into a mini craft store. Containers of tiny, colored beads, each representing a different type of cancer, line the table. The gold ones -- for childhood cancer -- stand out the most. "Our daughter Amanda was diagnosed with cancer last year, March of 2005, and we are happy to say that she is a survivor," says Cindy. When doctors found a tumor the size of a football on Amanda's hip, she began chemotherapy right away.... | |
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| | | Beads take fashion circles by storm | | Posted Saturday, August 05, 2006 3:00:22 AM by Blog57 Team | | JINGLE jangle is certainly a buzz phrase in the fashion circles this season. I am talking about chains, beads or anything that hangs, clangs, flips, flops, twists or twirls is pretty much in vogue. Whether in the form of bracelets, or even embroidered onto clothes, they can now be found on everyone from college girls in the city to professional women at workplaces. Beads have, indeed, become a fairly popular fashion statement and today almost every fashion boutique and retail shop now has a wide array of them. They are either found in the form of neck beads, bracelets, necklaces, chokers, pendants or earrings. The look is chunky crafts of inspired ethnic arts and almost what one might imagine every woman to don. In addition to tribal beads, look out for Middle Eastern and Indian art and crafts inspired coin jewellery pieces where strings of coins create an ethnic look.... | |
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| | | Lonely hearts wear bracelets to find love | | Posted Monday, July 24, 2006 12:59:49 AM by Blog57 Team | | SHANGHAI: Still struggling to find partners despite the glut of websites, clubs and events aimed at pushing them together, Shanghai's lonely hearts are being given yet more help in tracking down that special someone. Arriving in the form of a bracelet that identifies wearers, both male and female, as 'single and looking,' the new accessory is designed to help singletons pick each other out in the crowd. Mr. Sun and Ms. Zhang, both white-collar workers in Shanghai, fell in love at first sight after glimpsing each others' bracelets on the subway. "I saw a young man next to me wearing the same bracelet as me and I noticed that he was looking at me too. When our eyes met, we both felt something between us," said Zhang. She had picked up the bracelet, which is black with a red letter M, just moments before from outside Hengshan Road subway station, where they were being handed out.... | |
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