Key Facts in Ashley Smith case

Canadian prison authorities on Thursday rejected core recommendations made by the inquest into the horrific choking death of troubled teen Ashley Smith. Here are some facts:

Childhood: Ashley Smith, of Moncton, N.B., was born Jan. 29, 1988, and adopted a few days later.

Youth: By age 15, she had several encounters with the law, ending up in secure youth custody in New Brunswick for throwing crab apples at a postal worker Oct. 21, 2003. Her initial 30-day sentence increased dramatically through in-custody incidents and self-harming behaviour. She spent most of her time in segregation.

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E-cigarettes are 'less harmful than ordinary cigarettes'

Around 1.3million Britons use battery-powered e-cigarettes. The devices work by converting liquid nicotine into a mist, allowing users to inhale the drug while avoiding the harm caused by tobacco smoke (File photo)

E-cigarettes are 'less harmful than ordinary cigarettes': Healthcare professionals may recommend smokers use them instead of cigarettes

• Long-term health effects are unknown for e-cigarettes
• Current evidence does not justify regulating them more strictly than conventional cigarettes
• Around 1.3million Britons use battery-powered e-cigarettes 
• The devices work by converting liquid nicotine into a mist 
• E-cigarettes thought healthier than normal smoking because they do not contain tobacco and carcinogens found in cigarettes

E-cigarettes cause less harm than smoking tobacco to users and bystanders, a major scientific review has concluded.

 Although the long-term health effects are unknown, current evidence does not justify regulating them more strictly than conventional cigarettes – or even as strictly.

What not to study: The 20 university degrees with the highest unemployment rates

This is according to The Wall Street Journal, which  looked at how 173 college majors fare on the job market in terms of employment and pay, based on 2010 US census data

20 HIGHEST UNEMPLOYMENT RATES BY DEGREE:

1. CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY – 19.5%

2. MISCELLANEOUS FINE ARTS – 16.2%

3. UNITED STATES HISTORY – 15.1%
4. LIBRARY SCIENCE – 15.0%
5. EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY & MILITARY TECHNOLOGIES, TIE – 10.9%
6. ARCHITECTURE – 10.6%
7. INDUSTRIAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY – 10.4%
8. MISCELLANEOUS PSYCHOLOGY – 10.3%
9. LINGUISTICS AND COMPARATIVE LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE – 10.2%

80 Mind-Blowing Facts That Sound Stranger Than Fiction But Are Completely True

Some say that facts are often stranger than fiction. Did you know that there’s an animal that produces pink milk, or that it is almost with certainty that the water you are drinking right now once passed through a dinosaur?

 

Here is a collection of 80 fascinating facts to enrich your knowledge. So read on, and get ready to have your mind blown into a different timezone.

 

1. Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire.

 

2. Harvard University was founded before calculus was derived.

Harvard is the oldest higher education institution in the US, founded in 1636. Calculus wasn’t derived until later in the 17th century, with the work of Gottfried Leibniz and Isaac Newton.

 

3. France was still executing people with a guillotine when the first Star Wars film came out.

Star Wars premiered in theaters in May 1977. The last execution by guillotine took place September 10th of the same year.

 

4. Anne Frank, Martin Luther King Jr., and Barbara Walters were born in the same year, 1929.

 

5. The name Jessica was created by Shakespeare in the play Merchant of Venice.

 

6. Not once in the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme does it mention that he’s an egg.

 

7. In the span of 66 years, we went from taking flight to landing on the moon.