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POPSIn defense of jaywalking More: today the word jaywalking is often used as a sort of blanket justification for the dominating presence of cars on city streets. It also reflects a social bias against those people not in cars. (Note this comment in a Federal Highway Administration report: "Still, almost no one can avoid occasional pedestrian status," as if they were discussing exposure to a venereal disease.) …the Netherlands, which has essentially legalized jaywalking, has an enviable pedestrian safety record. …Finally, read newspapers very carefully. A number of studies have documented that media coverage of traffic crashes is selective, framed in certain predictable ways, and often misrepresents the true frequency or nature of actual risk. Jaywalking makes better copy for columnists than actually probing the complex nature of traffic safety.
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POPSTRAFFIC DEATHS STATISTICS According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration there are about 43,000 people killed in deadly car accidents each year in the United States. Approximately, 40 percent of the fatal crashes are alcohol-related. In addition to fatal accidents, about 2.9 million people are injured each year.
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POPSSleep facts and statistics We spend about a third of our life sleeping. The average adult sleeps 7 to 8.6 hours a day. Children statistics-292x300 Sleep facts and statisticssleep more than adults; they spent about 10 hours a day sleeping. Newborns, however, may sleep for nearly two-thirds of their day. There is an age-related difference in average time spent sleeping.
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POPSGraco My Ride 65: The First Convertible Car Seat to Rear-Face to 40 Pounds! According to car-safety.org, rear-facing is safest because it spreads “frontal crash forces over the whole area of a baby’s back, head and neck; they also prevent the head from snapping relative to the body in a frontal crash.” Additionally, the risk of broken legs due to bent knees or feet that touch the car’s seat is much lower than the risk of fatal injury. Crashtest.com cites these statistics for occurrence of crashes: frontal and frontal offset represent 72% of severe crashes, side impact 24% and rear and rear offset only account for 4%.
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POPSJudy L. Mandel’s Blog The lurking nature of grief| I came to grief late in life, protected and coddled in my own death-free existence. Save for a poisoned rabbit and a disappeared gold fish, death avoided me for many years
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POPSReplacement Child About The Book In a great act of hope, the parents give birth to a “replacement child,” born to heal wounds and provide a “salve for the burns.” The child unwittingly plays her role throughout childhood, riding the deep and hidden currents of the family tragedy.
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POPSJudy L. Mandel Author Bio My writing life began as a reporter, which I actually loved. Then, I added a public relations stint at a hospital, a short time in advertising and somehow found myself in corporate communications at various insurance companies
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POPSA Riveting Memoir by Judy Mandel Judy Mandel's memoir, Replacement Child, begins before she was even born.Her 7-year-old sister, Donna,was killed,and her other sister,Linda was burned nearly to death,when American Airlines Flight No 6780 crashed into their house in 1952 in Elizabeth, New Jersey.
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