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Friday, December 16, 2016

Tear-jerking moment dad 'marries' critically ill daughter so she can have fairy tale wedding of her dreams

 
A doting dad 'married' his critically-ill little girl so she could have her very own fairy tale wedding.
Dad Shi Xinzhan said his 6-year-old daughter Shi Haiqing had always dreamt of marrying her Prince Charming, so he played the part himself.
Donning a white outfit Xinzhan walked 'down the aisle' hand-in-hand with his daughter, who had put on her favourite Snow White dress.
They walked into her hospital ward to the tune of Felix Mendelssohn’s "Wedding March".
Shi Haiqing and her dad
Dad Shi Xinzhan said his 6-year-old daughter Shi Haiqing had always dreamt of marrying her Prince Charming
Nurses, doctors and other patients acted as guests for the hospital 'wedding' in Tai’an City, East China’s Shandong Province.
The symbolic ceremony also means that he will get to see his daughter get married - something he and his wife may never witness if she does not win her battle against nephrotic syndrome.
The kidney disease has seen the family’s life turned upside down since April this year, and in the eight months that followed Haiqing’s appearance has also changed dramatically, making her unrecognisable.
Shi Haiqing and her dad
Shi Haiqing and her dad walking through the hospital
The hormones she takes to counter the illness have caused her to put on 6 kilogrammes (13 lbs), which now sees her face swollen like a little balloon.
During the onset of the disease, Haiqing also suffered serious adrenal crises and her parents received two "critically ill" notices in the space of 10 days.
Besides the large amounts of money spent on Haiqing’s treatment - sometimes up to 10,000 RMB (£1,160) per day - there is very little the girl’s mum and dad can do.
But Haiqing has given her parents optimism, because she does not seem to fully grasp the severity of her disease and therefore seems to remain happy and cheerful every day.
Shi Haiqing with an older photo of herself from 8 months ago

Barack Obama warned against taking revenge on Russia for cyber attack

 

Britain's former top soldier has warned Barack Obama not to wage “tit-for-tat” cyber warfare against Russia.
The outgoing US president vowed to take revenge at a “time and place of our choosing” over the hacking of Democratic officials’ e-mails during this year’s bitter White House race.
Experts have blamed the Kremlin for the web attack saying Vladimir Putin wanted his pal Donald Trump to beat rival Hillary Clinton.
Britain’s former ambassador to Russia, Sir Andrew Wood, said the President-elect had a “case to answer”.
It is “almost impossible” he would not have known about Russian hacking during the election, the ex-diplomat claimed.
Mr Obama told NPR News he confronted Mr Putin over the allegations.
Whenever a foreign government tried to interfere in US elections, the nation must take action - “and we will”, Mr Obama revealed.
He added: “Some of it may be explicit and publicised, some of it may not be.
“But Mr Putin is well aware of my feelings about this, because I spoke to him directly about it.”

The Kremlin rejected suggestions President Putin was involved in the hacks.
Spokesman Dmitry Peskov claimed it was “laughable nonsense”.
Ex-Chief of the Defence Staff General Lord Richards cautioned Mr Obama against launching a revenge attack.
He told the BBC: “Taking President Obama at face value - and I assume he has good evidence to substantiate his claim - then I imagine they are going to have to think very carefully about getting into some tit-for-tat operation with the Russians.
“You never really quite know where it’s going to end up; are they going to start having a go at our financial system, electricity?
“You have got to be very, very careful and that is why he has been rather cagey, I think, in choosing his words the way he has.”
Mr Trump faced accusations he knew about the Kremlin targeting the Democratic campaign.

Hillary Clinton
Sir Andrew, who was Britain’s ambassador to Russia from 1995 to 2000, said: “I don’t see how Donald Trump could not have known something.
“I think that’s almost impossible. What he actually said to Hillary Clinton in the debates was, essentially, ‘You can’t prove it - you don’t know’.
“He never said ‘This is serious, it must be investigated’.
“He did have people around him who had quite a lot to do with Russia or Ukraine. So I think there is a case to answer.”
But the incoming President’s senior adviser, Kellyanne Conway, claimed it was “breathtaking” and irresponsible for the White House to suggest Mr Trump knew Russia was interfering to help his campaign.
In London, No 10 faces questions over whether Russians had used hacking to try and influence UK elections.
A Downing Street spokesman said: “There is no evidence that our elections have been interfered with in this way.
“Obviously, the reports from the US about allegations of cyber-activity by Russia are a concern.”

Porn model admits smuggling £18m of cocaine on cruise ship - and she put the whole trip on Instagram

 
An ex-porn model has admitted trying to smuggle more than £18 million of cocaine from Britain to Australia.
Canadian Isabelle Lagace, 28, took the class A drug on board the £11,000-per-head Sea Princess cruise ship that sailed into Sydney.
She documented her journey with dozens of social media posts taken at stunning locations including the US, South America and Pacific.
But Australian Border Force officers were waiting when the ship docked in Sydney on the 51st day of the 68-day cruise.
Isabelle Lagacé
Isabelle Lagace has appeared in many racy photoshoots

Roberce and Lagace were arrested in Sydney
Police alleged Lagace, her travelling companion Melina Roberce, 23, and and 64-year-old fellow passenger Andre Tamine were part of a "very well-organised syndicate" to smuggle drugs.
Australian federal police said the illegal shipment was one of the largest ever of its kind, reports the Sydney Morning Herald .
The former porn model's lawyer Louis Ialenti entered the guilty plea at a courthouse in Sydney on her behalf.
Melina Roberge, 22, and Isabelle Lagacé, 28, were on the Sea Princess cruise, which started in Britain and visited Canada, USA, Colombia, Peru and Auckland all before arriving in Australia on Sunday
The action-packed cruise took them across the world
Melina Roberge, 22, and Isabelle Lagacé, 28, were on the Sea Princess cruise, which started in Britain and visited Canada, USA, Colombia, Peru and Auckland all before arriving in Australia on Sunday
They posed in bikinis in many stunning locations
Roberce and Lagace were arrested 51 days into the 68-day cruise
The 95kg of drugs were worth $31 million in Australian dollars and were spread across four suitcases.
The cruise began in Southampton and the social media posts show Lagace and Roberce at locations including New York, Bermuda, Ecuador, Tahiti, Colombia, Peru and New Zealand.
The maximum penalty for smuggling cocaine in Australia is life imprisonment.
Roberce and Tamine have not entered pleas yet.
Melina Roberge, 22, and Isabelle Lagacé, 28, were on the Sea Princess cruise, which started in Britain and visited Canada, USA, Colombia, Peru and Auckland all before arriving in Australia on Sunday
Melina Roberge, 22, and Isabelle Lagacé, 28, were on the Sea Princess cruise, which started in Britain and visited Canada, USA, Colombia, Peru and Auckland all before arriving in Australia on Sunday
Melina Roberge, 22, and Isabelle Lagacé, 28, were on the Sea Princess cruise, which started in Britain and visited Canada, USA, Colombia, Peru and Auckland all before arriving in Australia on Sunday

Couple fed pills to four-year-old daughter so she would not disturb their sex

 
Little Poppy
Little Poppy Widdison died on the sofa of the flat in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, after ingesting a variety of drugs in the lead up to her death.

Pyke and Rytting encouraged Poppy to eat sedatives because they felt she was getting in the way of their relationship, the trial at Hull Crown Court heard.

She died in June 2013 after suffering a cardiac arrest at drug dealer Rytting's "squalid" home in Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire.

Tests carried out after she died found that Poppy had ingested a variety of drugs for a period of up to six months before her death, including sedatives, heroin, methadone and ketamine.

Text messages between Pyke and Rytting talked about Poppy having a "blue Smartie" - believed to be a reference to the sedative diazepam in the form of a blue tablet - and going to sleep.

David Gordon, prosecuting, told the jury earlier in the three-week trial:
 "We say Pyke and Rytting, the defendants, are just wanting to get on with their love life, wanting to enjoy each other's company and it may be this young girl was something of an encumbrance.

"It's apparent from the text messages that Miss Pyke viewed Poppy as an inconvenience, who she felt was in the way with regards her relationship with Mr Rytting."

An ambulance was called to Rytting's home in Oliver Court on June 9, 2013 where Poppy was found to be "unresponsive, blue and not breathing".

Police found these in their home
She was taken to hospital but died the next day.

A post-mortem examination could not establish a cause of death but toxicology tests carried out on her blood and hair found various drugs and showed the young girl had been exposed to and had ingested significant amounts of heroin and methadone for a period of between two and six months before her death.

The drugs did not contribute to Poppy's death but experts agreed there was a "long period of ill-treatment and neglect by the grossly inappropriate administration of various drugs to the child by the defendants". 

The trial was told that Pyke was in the process of moving into Rytting's home, where prescription and controlled drugs were "left lying around".

Both defendants pleaded guilty to child cruelty by allowing Poppy to be accommodated in a house where prescribed and controlled drugs were unsecured and within reach of the child.

Pyke, 37, also pleaded guilty to child cruelty by emotional abuse after neighbours heard her shouting at Poppy, threatening her and calling her a "little bastard".

On Friday, a jury took just over two hours to find both defendants guilty of one count of child cruelty by encouraging Poppy to ingest prescription and or controlled drugs.

Rytting, 40, who admitted one count of importing drugs and two counts of supplying controlled drugs, was also convicted of possessing cannabis with intent to supply.


They will be sentenced next year.

A count of child cruelty by assault causing bruising against both defendants was dropped by the prosecution during the trial.


Speaking after the verdicts, Detective Superintendent Umberto Cuozzo, who led the investigation for Humberside Police, said:
"Poppy was betrayed by the very people who were entrusted to keep her safe from harm.

"They put their relationship, lifestyle and drugs before her and I hope they now come forward and tell the truth about the events that led to Poppy's death in June 2013."

Mr Cuozzo described the three-and-a-half year investigation as "meticulous" and "complex".

An NSPCC spokesman urged anyone concerned about a child's welfare to contact the charity.
On the Poppy case, he added:
"It defies belief that anyone would purposefully feed class A drugs to a young child who would have been looking to the adults in her life for love and attention.

"Their priority should have been keeping Poppy safe from harm but instead she was growing up in shockingly dangerous conditions.

"The distressing evidence from this trial paints a picture of a young girl who was tragically viewed as an inconvenience."

Thursday, December 1, 2016

Man charged with murder of driver who gave him THE MIDDLE FINGER while stuck In traffic!!!

 
A Denver man was arrested for allegedly shooting dead a motorist who flipped him off.
David Garcia, 28, is accused of stealing an Audi TT sports car and using a gun he found in it to shoot at the car of the motorist, Miguel Baray, whom he got into the road rage incident with.

Denver police say Garcia told them he thought the bullet would go over Baray’s Honda and had not aimed at him.

Garcia was arrested and held on suspicion of first-degree murder.

Teacher 'had sex with students and rated them on their performance'

 

A female teacher allegedly seduced two students - and it is claimed even rated them on their sexual performance.

Kelsey Leigh Gutierrez, 25, engaged in a variety of sex acts with the teenagers over 18 months, according to police .

She was sacked from her job as an English teacher at Santa Fe High School in Texas, USA, on November 18 after the claims emerged.

She now faces three charges of having an improper relationship with a student.

Local TV station KPRC 2 News said court documents alleged Gutierrez met with an 18-year-old Santa Fe High School student at about midnight on November 12 in the car park of the male student's residence.

It is claimed they kissed in the front seat of her car before climbing into the back seat to have sex.

Four days later Gutierrez went to the student's residence and they had sex in his bedroom, court records allege.

Investigators said the teacher admitted to having a sexual relationship with the student, adding they had found evidence on both of their phones about meeting times and the student's sexual performance.

The court documents also detail a 2015 relationship with another school student.

In May last year, the teacher is said to have picked up the second student in her car and they drove him to a petrol station car park, where they kissed.

A few weeks later Gutierrez picked up the teenager and parked on the side of the road, where they kissed in her car, it is claimed.

The two met again at the student's residence, investigators said.

The teacher started working at the school at the beginning of the 2014 school year.

She was held in custody in lieu of payment of a $45,000 (£36,000) bail but has since been released.



In a statement, the school said: "Santa Fe Independent School District became aware that a former high school teacher was arrested Monday, Nov. 28, 2016, in connection with allegations that she may have engaged in an improper relationship with a student.

"As soon as the District learned of the allegations, an internal investigation began including campus administrators and the District police department, and the teacher's employment with the District ended.

"We want you to know that we take very seriously any concerns that relate to the well-being of each of our students and our first priority is the safety and education of our students in our district.

"We will continue to work in cooperation with law enforcement and the District Attorney's office. Inappropriate actions by teachers will never be acceptable in this district."

The allegations against Gutierrez emerged following a tip-off to authorities.

Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Syria conflict: US admits mistakes led to strike on state forces

 

The US has admitted carrying out an attack in eastern Syria that killed dozens of Syrian forces fighting so-called Islamic State (IS).

The US-led coalition said the "mistake" on 17 September was intended to target IS positions.

Coalition aircraft from the UK, US, Denmark and Australia were involved in the attack near Deir al-Zour.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has maintained that the deadly airstrikes were intentional.

The attack, which the Russian army says killed at least 62 Syrian troops, were halted when Russia informed the US it was hitting Syrian forces.

"In this instance, we did not rise to the high standard we hold ourselves to, and we must do better than this," said US Lieutenant-General Jeff Harrigian.

A spokesman for US Central Command (Centcom), the wing of the American military in charge of all its Middle East forces, said the mistake was "regrettable", adding that it was not the intent to target Syrian troops.

However, President Assad said he did not believe the US military's account that the attack was a mistake.

"It was four aeroplanes that kept attacking the position of the Syrian troops for nearly one hour, or a little bit more than one hour," President Assad told the AP news agency.

A spokesman for the UK Ministry of Defence said Tuesday's report showed that the decision to carry out strikes near Deir al-Zour was "made in good faith".

"We welcome the coalition's report and its conclusion that the decision to identify the targets as Daesh (IS) fighters was reasonable," he said.

"We would not and did not intentionally strike known Syrian Regime military units," he added.

Thursday, November 17, 2016

Checkout The $5.3Million House President Obama Will Be Moving Into After They Leave The White House

 

The United States’ current first family, after the administration of Barack at the White House ends, will be moving into a lavish $5.3 million residence in a desirable gated neighbourhood in Washington, DC. The house was built in 1928, with 8,200 square feet and nine bedrooms.

A report by businessinsider.com, states that the Obamas will lease the home from Joe Lockhart, who served as press secretary in President Bill Clinton’s White House, until their younger daughter, Sasha, finishes high school.

See more photos from the interior of the house below:



Friday, November 11, 2016

Zuckerberg defends Facebook over Trump

 

Facing criticism that fake news on Facebook aided the rise of Donald Trump, founder Mark Zuckerberg
has strongly defended his network.
Speaking on stage at Techonomy, a technology conference in California, Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook should not be held responsible.
"The idea that fake news on Facebook influenced the election in any way is a pretty crazy idea," he said.
"If you believe that then I don't think you have internalised the message Trump supporters are trying to send in this election."
Some data has shown that fake stories were being far more widely shared on the platform than follow up stories debunking the claims.


Can social media predict election results?

For an increasing number of people, particularly Americans, Facebook is becoming the primary source of news coverage.
The site's News Feed is specifically designed to show users content it thinks will be of most interest, creating what some describe as a "filter bubble" that reinforces a person's view without injecting differences in opinion.


Earlier this year, Facebook was accused of being antiTrump after it was alleged its human moderators were favouring liberal stories appearing in people's "trending stories" box.
While denying that claim, the site did sack its human team, instead relying solely on an algorithm to determine which stories were shown to be most popular.
As a consequence, stories which were later proved entirely false appeared on the timelines of a large number of users.
When asked about checks and balances needed to keep a company like Facebook in line, Mr Mark Zuckerberg said it was about "listening to what people want".
"My goal, and what I care about, is giving people the power to share so we can make the world more open and connected. That requires building a good version of News Feed. We still have work to do on that. We’re going to keep improving it.
"On the community guidelines, I think as norms change and people want to see more news, I think we'll have to continue to evolve the guidelines to reflect the value that the community holds."
At the same event, Mark Zuckerberg offered an optimistic view of Donald Trump's presidency, saying that his goals of improving global healthcare and connectivity did not necessarily require the co-operation of government.

SEE HOW DONALD TRUMP REACTED TO PROTESTS AGAINST HIS VICTORY

 

U.S President elect, Donald Trump has reacted to protests against his victory, saying the media incited them.

All hopes not lost! Hillary Clinton Can Still Become President on This One Scenario Before Trump is Sworn-In

 
It has been revealed that Hillary Clinton can still become the President of the United States of America if this one thing happens before Donald Trump is sworn-in.


Hillary Clinton

For die hard Democrats holding out hope that they won’t have to live through a Trump presidency, there is a last, incredibly long shot for them latch on to a surprise twist in the Electoral College.

Though Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by 200,000, Trump has won the minimum of 270 electoral votes necessary to be elected president. As of late Wednesday, he had 290 to Hillary Clinton's 228.

According to the Constitution, chosen electors of the Electoral College are the real people who will vote for president, when they meet on Dec. 19 in their respective state capitals.

However, there is technically nothing stopping any of the electors from voting their conscience and refusing to support the candidate to whom they were bound, or from abstaining from voting altogether.
There’s even a name for it: becoming a “faithless elector.”

The idea of electors reversing their vote is rarely discussed and was most recently bandied about after the incredibly close 2000 election in which George Bush narrowly beat Al Gore. And electors going “faithless” is exceedingly rare.

Well over 99 percent of electors throughout American history have voted as pledged, according to an analysis done by the New York Times.
It does happen, though.

The last faithless elector reared his roguish head back in 2004, when a lone anonymous voter in Minnesota declined to vote for Democrat John Kerry and instead voted for Kerry’s running mate, John Edwards.
The rogue’s vote was purely ceremonial, as Bush already had 286 electoral votes, more than enough to ensure his reelection.
Faithless electors are technically barred in only 29 states from ignoring the will of the voters, though the penalties are light. And a faithless elector has never swung an election.

But given the high dissatisfaction with Trump among Republicans, a few faithless GOP electors could well go rogue next month.
One Texas GOP elector, Chris Suprun of Texas, a firefighter, told Politico in August that he finds Trump so unpalatable he’d consider voting for Clinton when he gets to Georgia’s capital on Dec. 19th.

Baoky Vu, a Decatur businessman, told the Atlanta-based news site AJC.com in August that he couldn’t stomach voting for Donald Trump either, and was quietly convinced by local GOP leaders to resign as an elector.
Clinton would need more than 20 GOP electors to go rogue and vote instead for her a mighty tall order.

Even then, the new, Republican-controlled Congress meets Jan. 6 to approve the electoral college vote, and would certainly vote to void any roguery, handing the victory firmly back to Trump.

The Founding Fathers created the electoral college because the were “afraid of direct Democracy,” according to FactCheck.org.
In fact, Alexander Hamilton thought the electors would make sure “the office of President will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications.”

It remains to be seen, given Tuesday’s surprise election result, whether Democrats and even some Republicans who question the “requisite qualifications” of president elect Donald Trump will push to revisit the Electoral College system.

Culled from the New York Post

Wednesday, November 9, 2016

Live: Trump winning as President. US election results so far

 

Donald Trump scored major victories over Hillary Clinton on Tuesday night in Florida, Ohio and North Carolina, showing remarkable strength in three of the nation's most fiercely fought battleground states in an unexpectedly tight race for the presidency.

Mrs Clinton carried Virginia and Colorado, as well as California, the nation's largest prize. With a handful of other states still undecided, neither candidate had cleared the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the White House.

Michigan and Wisconsin, two Midwestern powerhouses that haven't voted for a Republican presidential candidate since the 1980s, took on unexpected importance. Mrs Clinton's campaign had largely taken both for granted, but made a late push in Michigan in the race's final days.
 
A candidate needs to secure 270 out of 538 electoral college votes in order to win the presidency. They claim these by winning individual states that each award a certain number of votes. States with more people have more electoral college votes.

The popular vote can be less important to the overall result, as a candidate can gain a majority of electoral votes without performing as well at a national level. In the 2000 election, Al Gore gained more votes than George Bush, but the Republican managed to scrape 271 electoral votes and claim the presidency.

Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Video: Check out President Obama’s epic reply to Donald Trump’s ‘mean’ tweet

 

After reading a mean tweet from the Republican nominee, Donald Trump that said, “President Obama will go down as the worst president in the history of the United States!” He replied;


“Really? Well, @realDonaldTrump, at least I will go down as a President.” He then threw down the phone he was reading from.
Watch the video below (1:25mins for his reply to Trump)

Trump: Hillary Clinton's plan would start World War III

 
The Republican standard-bearer struck an apocalyptic tone when criticising his Democratic rival's plan to control Syrian air space.

"You're going to end up in World War Three over Syria if we listen to Hillary Clinton," Mr Trump said.
"You're not fighting Syria any more, you're fighting Syria, Russia and Iran, all right?


"Russia is a nuclear country, but a country where the nukes work as opposed to other countries that talk."

Mr Trump suggested there should be a refocus away from the long-held US position of trying to remove Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, saying: "What we should do is focus on IS. We should not be focusing on Syria."

He also suggested Mrs Clinton would be unable to talk with Russian President Vladimir Putin after her sharp criticism of him.

Mr Trump questioned "how she is going to go back and negotiate with this man who she has made to be so evil" if she is elected president on 8 November.

The Clinton campaign dismissed the criticism, saying both Republican and Democratic national security experts have denounced Mr Trump as unfit to be commander-in-chief.
"Once again, he is parroting Putin's talking points and playing to Americans' fears, all while refusing to lay out any plans of his own for defeating ISIS or alleviating humanitarian suffering in Syria," Clinton spokesman Jesse Lehrich said in a statement.

Mr Trump's warning of confrontation with Russia echoes concerns raised last month at a congressional hearing by the highest-ranking military officer in the US armed forces.
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Marine Gen Joseph Dunford told lawmakers a "no-fly zone" in Syria could spell war with Russia.
"Right now, senator, for us to control all of the airspace in Syria it would require us to go to war, against Syria and Russia," Gen Dunford told the Senate Arms Services Committee.

America's highest-ranking military officer has warned against a US-imposed no-fly zone in Syria
"That's a pretty fundamental decision that certainly I'm not going to make."
At the final presidential debate in Nevada on 20 October, Mrs Clinton outlined her support for the measure.
"A no-fly zone can save lives and hasten the end of the conflict," she said on stage.
But in a 2013 speech to Wall Street firm Goldman Sachs, Mrs Clinton said establishing a no-fly zone would "kill a lot of Syrians", according to a transcript disclosed by Wikileaks.

Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Pakistan militants attack police college, over 29 injured

 

A major security operation is under way after armed militants attacked a police training college in Pakistan's western city of Quetta, officials say.
At least 20 people, including police recruits, were injured after the attackers entered the building and began firing, media reports say.
The officials believe at least five militants stormed the college.
Pakistani troops - backed by Frontier Corps - are taking part in the security operation.
The attackers are believed to have entered the college through the front gate late on Monday before storming the college's hostel.
Hundreds of police recruits are believed to be in the building.
Gunfire and explosions could be heard later on, local media reports say.
"Our security forces have the capability to combat such attacks and threats," Balochistan's Home Minister Mir Sarfaraz Ahmed Bugti was quoted as saying by Pakistan's Dawn newspaper.
No group has so far claimed responsibility for Monday's attack.
In August, 88 people were killed in separate bomb attacks targeting a hospital and lawyers in Quetta.
The Pakistani military has been conducting military operations against militants in volatile tribal areas near the Afghan border.



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PLANE CARRYING EUROPEAN UNION OFFICIALS CRASHES IN MALTA, NO SURVIORS.

 

Five people have died after a plane believed to be carrying EU border officials crashed and exploded into a ball of flames in Malta. The light aircraft crashed shortly after taking-off from the runway at Malta Airport in Luqa at around 5.30am on Monday.
No one aboard the flight, which was heading for Misrata in Libya, is thought to have survived.

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One witness told the Times of Malta how they saw the plane take-off and rise before it tipped onto its right side ‘and went straight down into the ground.’
Emergency services are on the scene and rescuers are searching the burning wreckage for any survivors.

Baby girl 'born twice' after surgery

 

A baby girl from Lewisville, Texas, has been "born" twice after she was taken out of her mother's womb for 20 minutes for life-saving surgery.
At 16 weeks pregnant, Margaret Hawkins Boemer discovered her daughter, Lynlee Hope, had a tumour on her spine.
The mass, known as a sacrococcygeal teratoma, was diverting blood from the foetus - raising the risk of fatal heart failure.
Baby Lynlee weighed just 1lb 3oz (0.53kg) when surgeons opened the womb.
Mrs Boemer had originally been expecting twins, but lost one of her babies before the second trimester. She was initially advised to terminate her pregnancy entirely before doctors at Texas Children's Fetal Center suggested the risky surgery.
The tumour and the unborn baby were almost the same size by the time the operation was performed. Lynlee was given a 50% chance of survival.

Mrs Boemer told CNN: "At 23 weeks, the tumour was shutting her heart down and causing her to go into cardiac failure, so it was a choice of allowing the tumour to take over her body or giving her a chance at life.
"It was an easy decision for us: We wanted to give her life."
'Her heart stopped'
Doctor Darrell Cass of Texas Children's Fetal Centre was one of the team who carried out the surgery. He said the tumour had been so large that a "huge" incision was required to reach it, leaving the baby "hanging out in the air".
Lynlee's heart virtually stopped during the procedure but a heart specialist kept her alive while most of the tumour was removed, he added. The team then placed her back in her mother's womb and sewed her uterus up.

Mrs Boemer spent the next 12 weeks on bedrest, and Lynlee entered the world for the second time on 6 June. She was born via Caesarean at almost full term, weighing 5Ib and 5oz, and named after both of her grandmothers.
When Lynlee was eight days old, a further operation helped remove the rest of the tumour from her tailbone.
Dr Cass said the baby girl was now home and thriving. "Baby Boemer is still an infant but is doing beautiful," he confirmed.
Sacrococcygeal teratoma is a rare form of tumour seen in one out of 30,000-70,000 live births. Its cause is unknown but baby girls are affected four times more often than boys.



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Saturday, October 22, 2016

First woman to climb Everest, Junko Tabei dies at 77

 

The first woman to ascend Everest, Japanese climber Junko Tabei, has died aged 77, her family say.
Tabei conquered Everest in May 1975, aged 35, before climbing all of the world's seven highest peaks by 1992.
She was diagnosed with cancer of the abdomen four years ago, and died in hospital in the city of Saitama.
Her last ascent was of Mount Fuji in July, alongside high school students affected by the 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami.
Tabei was originally from Fukushima prefecture, that was badly affected by the disaster.

In 2012, Tabei told the Japan Times she was proud of how her ascent was viewed.
"Back in 1970s Japan, it was still widely considered that men were the ones to work outside and women would stay at home.
"Even women who had jobs - they were asked just to serve tea. So it was unthinkable for them to be promoted in their workplaces."
Her ascent of Everest came 12 days after she was swept away in an avalanche on the mountain. She was dug out by a guide and continued the expedition.

Graphic Photos: Mexican Gang Cut-Off the Hands of Seven Thieves in Warning to Others

 

A video clip reportedly filmed in the Mexican state of Jalisco, have shown how local vigilantes severed the hands of seven suspected thieves, as two of the terrified men and one woman were seen bound and gagged as they roll around on the floor.
According to Dailymail, a person can be heard in the background of the video saying: ‘An ambulance is coming, an ambulance is coming, you have to stay here.’

A police officer is also heard asking the men: ‘Where are you from?’ One of the alleged thieves then replies: ‘We haven’t eaten anything for four days.’


The man lying on the ground is asked why he was kidnapped, but he makes no reply. One of the victims reportedly died before he could get medical treatment and the other six were in critical condition in hospital.
Prosecutor Eduardo Almaguer Ramirez from Tlaquepaque, Jalisco, later confirmed that all of those attacked had criminal records for crimes including robbery and drug dealing.
Local media reported that the reason for the attach was ‘vigilante justice’, and the latest in a string of similar attacks on people accused of being involved in crime.
  



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Hillary Clinton Slammed for Her Description of Supreme Court Gun Ruling

 

Hillary Clinton's characterization of a landmark gun decision has Second Amendment advocates crying foul.

The topic arose at Wednesday night’s presidential debate during a discussion about issues the Supreme Court could tackle during the next administration, including the Second Amendment, which guarantees “the right of the people to keep and bear arms.”

Debate moderator Chris Wallace mentioned the Heller case, which was the high court’s 2008 ruling that residents of Washington, D.C., had the constitutional right to bear arms in their own home for self-defense, for instance, which negated a longtime firearm ban in the city.

Wallace also cited a 2015 audio recording of Clinton where she is heard saying "the Supreme Court is wrong on the Second Amendment," a reference to the Heller case.


During her remarks Wednesday night, Clinton touted her years spent in Arkansas and representing upstate New York as senator as proof of her support and "respect" for "the tradition of gun ownership," but then tuned to a specific aspect of the Heller decision.

"I disagreed with the way the court applied the Second Amendment in that case because what the District of Columbia was trying to do was to protect toddlers from guns. And so they wanted people with guns to safely store them. And the court didn't accept that reasonable regulation, but they’ve accepted many others," she said.

Protecting children from access to guns inside the home came up as a question in the Supreme Court's discussion of the D.C. law, but the word "child" was mentioned only six times in the 110 pages of transcript of the court’s closed-door session, according to a review of the transcript.

Bob Owens, the editor of Second Amendment news site Bearing Arms, said Clinton's description inaccurately reflected the crux of the case.

"It's kind of like saying that ‘Fatal Attraction’ was about a woman's hatred of rabbits," Owens told ABC News, referencing the film's infamous bunny-boiling moment.

"Yes, that is a tiny part of the overall story, but it completely missed the main point," he said.

The Clinton campaign did not immediately return ABC News' request for comment or clarification.

National Rifle Association spokeswoman Jennifer Baker said Clinton "was wrong" in her description of the Heller decision.

"I think she's trying to confuse voters and distract them from her position, which is that the Supreme Court got it wrong on the Second Amendment," Baker told ABC News.

As the debate unfolded Wednesday night, the NRA released a new TV ad that included the 2015 audio of Clinton’s saying, "the Supreme Court is wrong on the Second Amendment." The NRA made a $5 million ad buy for the commercial and will play it on national cable and broadcast stations in battleground states through Oct. 31.

The late justice Antonin Scalia held the deciding vote in the Heller case, so the prospect of the next president’s being in a position to appoint a replacement who could tip the balance against the Heller decision is a frightening possibility, should Clinton win, the NRA’s Baker said.

"If that is overturned, it paves the way for extreme gun control at all levels of government, including gun bans," she added.

For his part, Donald Trump didn’t comment on the specifics of the Heller decision at the debate, but rather about Clinton's reported reaction to the ruling.

"Well, the D.C. vs. Heller decision was very strongly -- and she was extremely angry about it. I watched. I mean, she was very, very angry when upheld. And Justice Scalia was so involved,” Trump said. “And it was a well-crafted decision. But Hillary was extremely upset, extremely angry.”

Owens, of news site Bearing Arms, said Trump’s answer made it "hard for me to get a sense of what he knows there."

"He has a pattern of being so general in his responses that it's really difficult to gauge his understanding," Owens added.

The NRA’s Baker said she is not concerned about Trump's understanding of the case or what it would mean for legal gun owners.

"He's been the most outspoken unabashed supporter of the Second Amendment that's run for president in decades," she said of Trump.



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