Folded airplanes made from paper products comes from an unknown origin with most experts theorizing the art is based from either Japanese origami or the Chinese practice of folding paper gliders.  Wherever paper airplanes were first made, there is clear documentation that proves they have been in existence for more than 1,000 years.

Many notable people and inventors who actively worked to pioneer aircraft flight have utilized the airplanes models crafted from paper as a guide to building large-scale flying machines.  Leonardo Da Vinci recorded his various experiences with parchment paper airplanes and in the 19th century, a British engineer named Sir George Cayley explored some of his aviation ideas through paper plane models.  

Even the Wright Brothers, fondly known as the “founding fathers of flight,” constructed numerous paper airplanes that they would put to the test in their Wright Flyer, which was wind tunnel they used in order to conclude how various forces could be manipulated to control an airplane during flight.

Over time, several other designers have found ways to improve upon the basic paper airplane to utilize it as an effective tool for modern aviation.  In 1930, Jack Northrop, Lockheed Corporation’s co-founder, used paper airplanes as test models for future, larger aircrafts.

Crafting Your Notebook Paper Airplane

Begin by placing a smooth sheet of notebook paper down on a hard, flat surface such as a coffee table or kitchen counter.  Then, the notebook paper will need to be folded in half, making the crease fall long-ways in the center of the paper.  Once you have made a nice crease, unfold the notebook paper.

Now, take the right corner and fold it so that the edge meets the center of the notebook paper.  Follow this step for the paper’s left side also.  This will cause the paper to become arrow-shaped.  Once this two-part step is complete, you will once again take the right side of your notebook paper and fold it to meet the center crease.  Repeat this step on the left as well.  The semi-finished product will give the paper a triangle tip.

You will now rotate the notebook paper sideways and fold it in half where the previous crease already exists.  Take the bottom right of the notebook paper and fold it going towards the top in order to construct the wing.  Flip over the almost-made airplane and repeat this instruction to fashion the other wing.

You now have a paper airplane crafted from a simple sheet of notebook paper that when folded correctly, will fly an impressive distance.  If you want to extend its flying distance and happen to have a paper clip laying around, you can provide your plane with added weight, stability, and flying power by attaching it to the airplane’s front end.

Following the Rules Has Failed You

Do not feel guilty about enacting revenge on those pesky little devils in disguise as humans.  You, like many other consumers, have probably tried the recommended cease and desist methods of asking them to stop calling, joining the National Do Not Call Registry that bans telemarketers, and blocking their phone number only to have them worm their way back into your caller id by using an alternate phone number.

Fun Tips to Becoming a Telemarketer’s Worst Nightmare

If you have done everything right yet everything seems to be going wrong, it is time to turn the tides and have a little fun at their expense.  Here are some great tips to get you started; however, you are only limited by your imagination so feel free to pull out all of the stops.

Please Hold–Take a page out of the customer service handbook of virtually any business and make that annoyingly persistent telemarketer shut-up by saying, “can I put you on hold for a moment.”  Do not give him or her time to answer but instead put the receiver down and walk away for a few minutes.  

Even better, play your kid’s Barney music CD and put the phone up to the stereo speakers so they can enjoy a heartwarming rendition of Barney’s “I Love You” theme song.  Make sure you choose the “Repeat Song” option.  On the off chance the moron is still waiting on the line, express interest in whatever it is he or she is selling and once they get into their sales spiel, put them back on hold.  Repeat as often as you deem necessary.

Feign Deafness–If you really want to test a telemarketer’s patience, and you know you do, every time they make a statement or ask a question, pleasantly request for them to repeat the last comment they made.  It will not be long before they give up and actually hang up on you.

A Friendly Voice–When you get a sales call, be insistent upon the fact that you believe the telemarketer is really your best friend playing a prank on you.  You can make comments such as “Jason, I know its really you” or “come on, enough is enough so stop fooling around.”

Get Personal–As soon as your telemarketing victim inquires as to how your day was, use every dramatic acting skill you possess and pour your heart out.  Turn on the waterworks and begin lamenting over how much you hate your life and that you desperately wish you can get just one lucky break to turn it all back around.  Your depressing life story will produce stunned silence on the other end.

Pop the Question–Are you tired of being lonely?  Propose marriage to the telemarketer.  They will become so caught off-guard, chances are they will end their telemarketing reign of terror currently directed toward you.

Sound Effects–Use a sound effects device to mess with the next telemarketer who dares to call your house.  Toy stores and novelty shops usually carry inexpensive devices that make a variety of sounds such as fart noises, burps, booing, and interesting phrases.  There are even machines that let you record your own message and disguise it with voice over options.

You can usually purchase one of these handy gizmos for $10-$20 that will perfectly suit your needs.  Another acceptable alternative to the sound effects device is an air horn, which costs about the same as a sound device.  However, if you can not justify the cost, you can always produce burp and fart noises of your own or simply scream at the top of your lungs into the phone.  Let your imagination soar, get your revenge and most importantly, have a blast while doing it.

Post Replies in a Timely Fashion

If someone sends you a card in the mail, would you wait several months to respond or worse, never respond at all?  Of course not.  This etiquette rule is no different on Facebook.  If someone posts on your wall or writes you a private message, reply in a timely manner.  This keeps your friend from feeling ignored or slighted and prevents you from coming across as an ill-mannered jerk.

Skip the Applications

Even if you have a strong desire to use countless Facebook applications, avoid sending every app invite to all of your friends.  Nobody wants to get yet another Farmville or Mafia Wars requests.  The more applications you sign up for, the more clutter will appear on your homepage.  It is one thing to have fun but an entirely different matter to solicit 50-100 apps to your friends each month.  

Do Not Publicly Post Private Events

Are you are planning a private event for a select group of Facebook friends?  If so, do not publicly post the event for every single person on your friends list to see.  Make sure you keep the event private so you will not risk offending your other, uninvited friends.

Keep Quiet

Although you may find your comment hilarious, if it is embarrassing to your friend, do not post it on their wall.  Remember, despite Facebook’s optional privacy settings, it is still a social network, which means many people will be able to read what you have to say whether it is positive or negative.

Only Delete Friends as a Last Resort

Unless that person is stalking you or you were in a relationship and decided to call it quits, try your best not to delete their profile.  Even if you could care less about hurting their feelings, if you run across this person in the future, it will make for one awkward situation.

Limit Your Status Updates

Facebook is not Twitter so limit your daily status updates to 1-2 time per day.  Your friends do not need to know every time you visit the bathroom, your baby’s feeding schedule, or what you had to eat for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Do Not Tag Your Friends in Unflattering Photos

Do you have a picture of your friend and in that picture, he or she is looking at their worst or doing something extremely embarrassing?  While you may think it is funny, they certainly will not if you tag them and post the photo for the entire Facebook community to gawk at.

While on the Subject of Photos

Never under any circumstances post a picture of someone else’s child without getting the parent’s approval beforehand.  Many parents are fearful of putting their child’s picture online and rightfully so, considering all of the perverts lurking around in the cloak of anonymity that is the internet.  Ask before you post; it is a matter of safety.

When you consume alcohol, the substance is first absorbed via your small intestine and stomach.  And if your stomach is empty, the alcohol will be absorbed at a faster rate.  After the alcohol exits the small intestine, it moves to the liver, then the heart, the brain, the muscles, and the body tissue.  This process occurs at a quick pace, lasting only several minutes.  In most cases, the person who is drinking alcohol will experience pleasant, relaxing physical side effects.

However, the human body is not built to store alcohol, which means the liver will instead break the substance down.  First, the liver will transform alcohol into a toxic, organic, chemical compound known as acetaldehyde as well as a non-toxic sodium salt called acetate.  Both of these chemicals are further broken down to make water and carbon dioxide.

Typically, the liver will break down 90-95% of consumed alcohol while the rest is excreted through sweat, breath, and urine.  The rate in which your body will break down alcohol depends on several factors such as your gender, weight, and age.  However, the average alcohol break down time is one beverage every hour.

Tips to Controlling Yourself While Under the Influence of Alcohol

Nobody wants to be known as the guy who can not control himself when drinking.  The kind of guy who gets into bar fights, vomits in the parking lot, and generally makes a fool of himself.  Eventually, this guy will stop getting invites to places where alcohol will be served.  Prevent alcohol from killing your social life by following these tips.

Eat First–If you eat a healthy-sized meal before drinking alcohol, the partially digested food will assist the body with the alcohol absorption process and reduce the negative side effects caused by alcohol.  It is also recommended to nibble on light snacks periodically to continue slowing your body’s consumption of alcohol.

Beer Is Better–Beer has a lower alcohol content than hard liquors found in mixed drinks, meaning less side effects.  Plus, many mixed drinks contain high levels of sweeteners from added juice and soft drinks and sugar tends to not only cause you to be sick, but also doubles your hangover nightmare.

Pick One and Stick with It–Make a choice to drink either wine, liquor, or beer and stick with it for the rest of the night.  If you feel you want to play with fire, you are better of downing shots of liquor before popping the top of your beer.

Monitor Your Physical Feelings–If you have that “fuzzy” sensation in your head or feel generally buzzed, slow down your drinking until the feeling subsides.  You must be able to monitor your alcohol intake or you will never be able to keep yourself under control.

Know When to Call It Quits–Once you feel enough is enough, its time to start drinking soda or water instead.  Alcohol poisoning and terrible hangovers are not worth pushing your body’s alcohol intake limit in order to act like the big shot of the evening.

Do Not Drive–This is no-brainer but unfortunately, drinking while driving is an all too common occurrence.  Do not become a statistic.

Skip the Alcohol if You Take Medication–Quite a few prescription drugs interact with alcohol in dangerous ways.  Discuss with your doctor the potential dangerous of taking your medication while drinking alcohol.

Boris Simonov was being chased by federal agents because him and his boss, Roman Postnikov had been accused of taking bribes and they wanted to capture and arrest them. They both work for Federal Fisheries Agency and it has been alleged that they took bribes from businessmen to allow them to get hold of an illegally back-dated contract to allow them to charge fishermen to use certain reservoirs on the outskirts of Moscow, to catch fish.

When the two officials were pursued by the police in Moscow along a very busy road, Boris Sominov crashed the Cadillac they were travelling in, reported to be worth seven million roubles, and then flung £200,000 worth of roubles, in large bundles, out of the window where it was blown around by the wind. He was trying to throw away the money, which presumably was the payment he had received for allowing the illegal contract through. It seemed that they were returning from a meeting with some businessmen when the federal security service agents chased and then arrested them.

The chase was televised and the state-run television First channel also showed footage of police collecting the rouble notes and dropping them in a cardboard from around the Moscow highway where the crash took place. Members of the public had also helped out and they had handed notes in that they had collected to the police. The notes were all of very high denominations and they were scattered alongside the thoroughfare where the crash had taken place. It also showed pictures of the two officials hand cuffed and lying on the road after the police arrested them. The car was shown, all smashed up, beside them.

The blonde woman, Vanessa Joy Long, who is 39 years old, was wearing her blonde hair in a ponytail when she was found asleep on the bed in the house in Christchurch, New Zealand. The home owner called the police as soon as they discovered that she was there. She had entered the house through the unlocked back door and drank alcohol and ate food from the fridge and then tried on some of the home owners clothes in the bedroom before falling asleep on the bed.

Afterwards she said that she could not remember doing anything in the house as she blacked out when she entered the building. She pleaded guilty at her hearing and has been bailed and will be sentenced on the first of September. The home owner is hoping to get £720 in damages to cover the cost of the food and drink that the blonde burglar consumed, as well as to cover damage that she did to the bedding and mattress.

The incident was paralleled to the story of ‘Goldilocks and The Three Bears’ where a blonde girl enters the unlocked bears house, eats food and then falls asleep, to later be discovered by the owners. In the story the police were not called but the bears chased her away and maybe this lady would have been better off had she been chased away as she stands to have to pay out quite a hefty amount of money in damages, should the court decide that she should cover the costs of the damage that she caused. This was certainly no fairytale ending for her.

The film was called ’stolen bus solstice 2010 hoodies Amesbury’ and has now been viewed over 20,000 times by interested Internet users. It shows the end of the joyride where a girl was driving the bus with another boy and girl standing nearby. They were headed along the A435 in Amesbury and the bus then crashes in to some parked cars after hitting a tree. Their conversation made it very clear that they were driving a double decker bus and the guy filming then turns the camera on himself, making all of them clearly identifiable. Once the bus stopped they panicked and abandoned it, running down the road screaming and shouting.

The bus crash caused £30,000 pounds worth of damage during its 12 mile journey to both the bus, other buses at the depot and parked cars including a Volkswagon and a Honda.

Having clear pictures of all of the youths enabled the police to identify the culprits and they soon arrested the two 16 year old girls and 21 year old man who had taken the bus. The youths have all been bailed pending a later court date. The police later said that it was a reckless thing to do and could have ended up causing a lot more damage or even the loss of lives. Adding that it is a great skill to be able to drive such a big vehicle and it was likely that it was only the time of day that they decided to take it, that prevented a fatality.

Colin Hall, who has been the Lord Mayor of Leicester since being elected on the 27th May 2010, was obliged to apologise after the event which occurred when he was on the visit to Southfields library and his trousers became loose and fell down. The forty six year old, whose Mother was the mayoress of the area from 1999-2000 and whose father also served on the city council, was visiting the library summer showcase which had been organised locally by Global Education Leicester and Shire Organisation, when the very unfortunate incident took place. The event was organised to bring together teachers and educational facilities to help widen the understanding of global perspectives.

A spokes man for the city council apologised on behalf of the new mayor explaining that he was unaware that his trousers were loose until they fell down when he stood up to make the vote of thanks. He was not wearing a belt and so they were unable to stay up and provide the coverage he needed. The Lord mayor, who is using his first year of office to promote health and well being in the county and using Rosemary Conley to help him to lose weight, was worried that this incident may have caused offence to some of the people attending  the summer showcase, which included pupils from three local schools and wanted to assure them that he was very sorry and it certainly not something that he wanted to do again.

It was obviously not something that he wanted to happen and he was very humiliated by the unfortunate accident at the library. The spokesman passed on his deepest apologies to anyone who was offended by the incident.

Rob Spence, who is a 36 year old documentary maker from Toronto, has noticed that when you are having conversations with people, they change significantly when they know that they are being filmed. He is hoping that by using the hidden camera, it will not only allow him to film from a great angle but he can do it in secret. He realises that this could be a problem, but is happy to reveal to people afterwards that they were being filmed and then ask them to sign a consent form. He would obviously not use any material that people would not agree to being shown as he is very aware of the ethics of doing it. It is likely that some of his material will be wasted but it is likely that the material that he gets will be much better quality than that which other film makers mange to get hold of.

The film maker lost his right eye when he was a teenager, in a shooting accident at his Grandfathers farm and now sees his disability as a great advantage. He now likes to call himself ‘eyeborg guy’ and feels like he is upgrading himself by using his camera eye. He is proud that he is able to update his body, something which most other people are not able to do. He built the camera partly himself and it is placed inside a false eye so cannot easily be detected. It is a wireless device which contains a tiny three volt battery and he was helped by Steve Mann who is a professor at MIT and an expert in this type of technology.

In the past it was found that playing classical music to cows made them more relaxed and that they produced more milk, which was felt to be a result of this relaxed state. It now seems like allowing them to watch plays by William Shakespeare might have the same calming effect as it increased milk production by 4%.

The Changeling Theatre group are a quirky Kent based company and they decided to perform for a dairy herd of Freesian cows near Maidstone. They performed some scenes from ‘the Merry Wives of Windsor’ in a bizarre experiment to find out if the cows enjoyed it. They decided that using the fields would save them renting a hall for their rehearsals and when it had such a good effect on the cows and milk production, the farmer was more than happy to let them continue rehearsing there.

It was felt that the Shakespeare comedy was relaxing enough to help to cows to produce more milk in the same way that classical music had been found to be. The theatre group said that they would not have tried it, had the play been one of Shakespeare’s tragedies as they would be worried that it might have the reverse effect and they would not like to upset the animals. However, as it was having such a positive effect they were likely to continue with rehearsing near to the field in order to entertain the cows.

They do not know whether it is the language in the Shakespeare plays or quite what it is that relaxes the cows, but whatever it is, the farm workers were very happy about the increase in the milk yield, even though it was not by a massive amount.