24 24 24 WOOLWICH OBSERVER • TOWN&COUNTRY • JULY <strong>27</strong>, 20<strong>02</strong> Telling the age, height and weight of callers Q. How well can people tell your age from hearing your voice over the phone? What else are you broadcasting? A. Listeners can guess age accurately to within about a decade, says Indiana University speech and hearing scientist Moya L. Andrews. That is, they couldn’t peg a speaker at exactly 34, but between 30 and 40. But there are red herrings. For males, voice frequency starts high in youth and drops steadily until the late 40s, then swings back up in senescence, says David Crystal in “The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language.” For females, pitch is stable through middle age, then Individual life insurance • Business insurance Employee benefits programs • Disability coverage Nancy Koebel Savings and investment products Kitchener/Waterloo Retirement income programs 5 - 2480 Homer Watson Blvd., Kitchener Bus. 895-2044 Res. 747-4388 Elmira Elmira Truck ruck Ser Service Ser vice TTTTTruck ruck ruck ruck ruck & & & & & TT Trailer TT railer railer railer railer Maintenance Maintenance Maintenance Maintenance Maintenance Cardlock Cardlock Cardlock Cardlock Cardlock Fuel Fuel Fuel Fuel Fuel Management Management Management Management Management 669-5377 669-5377 669-5377 Shaklee... A name you can trust! 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Elmira Elmira 669-2884 669-2884 Robert Krauss, et al., that sampled auditors of live voices could guess speaker height to within 3 inches, and weight about as accurately as others could from a photo. Q. Ye Scrabble(R) savants, know what the following letter pairs have in common? aa ae ai ay ee fa fy gu io oe oi oo oy po ti yu zo... A. Right, they’re just a handful of the 100+ 2-letter words—along with ad ah am an as at etc.—in the board game’s official wordlists, published by Chambers, says “The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language.” Few players can say what they all mean, which of course is no bar to using these brief word linkers or REGIONBULLETIN <strong>July</strong> 30 Waterloo Regional Library TD “Read Around the World” reading club presents “Remarkable Russia” at the Elmira Library from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. For more information call Angie 575-4590. August 1 Elmira Lions Summer Band Concert – Pork Chop Review Thursday August 1 st , 20<strong>02</strong> - 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. in Gore Park in Elmira. Concert is FREE Waterloo Regional Library TD “Read Around the World” reading club presents “ Journey to Japan” at the Bloomingdale Library August 1 from 1:45 to 2:30 p.m. and the St. Jacobs Library August 1 from 3:30 to 4:15 p.m. For more information call Angie at 575-4590. August 3 Free Folk Music Festival! Civic holiday weekend, Saturday, August 3 (noon until midnight), the Mill Race Festival of Traditional Folk Music celebrates its 10 th anniversary, at Mill Race Park along Water Street, Cambridge. Numerous bands such as The Dixie Fliers, the Gypsy Jive Band, dancers, children’s performers and much more. Rain or shine. August 6 Waterloo Regional Library TD “Read Around the World” reading club presents “Kangaroos and Didgeridoos” at Elmira Library August 6 from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. For more information call Angie 575- 4590. <strong>July</strong> 25 - <strong>27</strong> Putting It Together Productions Grease 8:00 p.m., also 2:00 <strong>July</strong> <strong>27</strong> River Run Centre 519.763.3000 Aug. 14 - 17 Rod Beattie in WINGFIELD’S PROGRESS 8:00 p.m. (also 2:00 p.m. Thurs. & Sat.) Theatre On The Grand 519.787.1981 STRANGE&TRUE BY BILL & RICH SONES offshoot new- directionals for nabbing more points. If you’re ever scrabbling in earnest, with a 4-slot beckoning and a Q begging for use, keep in mind aqua, qadi, qats, quat, quep, quod, quop and suqs, plus at least 10 more before this little Quiz will Quit without so much as a Quip. Q. Numbers puzzle from the ‘Net: What was the first day ever with Can Can I I Be Be Be of of of Assistance? Assistance? Assistance? 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August 8 Waterloo Regional Library TD “Read Around the World” reading club presents “Kangaroos and Didgeridoos” at the Bloomingdale Library August 8 from 1:45 to 2:30 p.m. and the St. Jacobs Library August 8 from 3:30 to 4:15 p.m. For more information call Angie at 575-4590. August 9 Cancer Support Group: Has cnacer touched you or a family member? Find out what support is available at WCHC through partnership with Hope Spring. Call Lorraine at 664-3794 ext. 229 for information on the September meeting. August 11 Please join us aboard the “River Gambler” on Sunday August 11 for a sunset cruise of Toronto’s spectacular waterfront. Proceeds of the event go to the Child Witness Centre. Tickets are $60.00 ($75.00 with bus transportation). The ship will board at 4:30 p.m. and return to dock at 9:00 p.m. For more information call 744-0904. Aug. 14 - 17 JM Drama presents Wallis, A Musical Drama about The Duchess of Windsor 8:00 p.m. The Registry Theatre 519.578.1570 or 1.800.265.8977 seven even numerals in its date, assuming our 1/ 1/2001 system? A. A retired math teacher answered this as 2/20/2000 on the Mathforum.org site, then was challenged by someone saying 0 is not an even number. How could it be, the person asked, since if you try dividing 0 by 2, you get a result of 0, which is neither a positive nor a negative integer? But integers can be positive, negative or zero, with the even numbers being ..., -6, -4, -2, 0, 2, 4, 6, ... So there’s no problem on that score. Only if you stick with natural number quotients would 0 be ruled out—1, 2, 3, etc. Here you get into definitions. But an even number is defined simply as one that is divisible by 2, with eyeGO = $5 Who says culture is a status thing? Lynn Myers, M.P. ALLEN MORRISON INSURANCE INC. 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Cars with licence numbers ending in an even digit could get gas on Mon., Wed., or Fri., an odd digit on Tues., Thurs. or Sat. Then someone in the New South Wales parliament asserted this meant plates ending in zero could never get gas, because “zero is neither odd nor even. So the NSW parliament ruled that for purposes of gas rationing, zero is an even number!” Al Earl Cell 577-1518 Res 669-2033 It’s time to call your Welcome Wagon Hostess. She will bring congratulations and gifts for the family and the NEW BABY! Elmira & Surrounding area. If you are not long distance to Elmira , you are welcome to a visit. Michelle Reay 669-0495
CREEPINESS AT THE LIBRARY HOW DOES IT FEEL? (Above) Brandon Brutzki smiles as Charlotte the tarantula gets comfortable on his face. Brandon was given the chance to become better acquainted with the spider as part of the Creepy Creatures program brought to the Elmira Public Library on <strong>July</strong> 19 by the Guelph Lake Nature Centre. CREEPY (Right) Kyle Arsenault was the lucky volunteer who got to demonstrate the appropriate ways to stand while letting Julius Squeezer the ball python get to know you. The snake was at the Elmira Public Library on <strong>July</strong> 19 as part of the Creepy Creatures program delivered by the Guelph Lake Nature Centre. JULY <strong>27</strong>, 20<strong>02</strong> • TOWN&COUNTRY • WOOLWICH OBSERVER 25 25 PHOTOS:HUGO RODRIGUES
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