The accident took place in the country’s western Bandundu province on Wednesday.
“I can confirm the accident. We are currently in a crisis meeting,” a source in the Bandundu province governor’s office, who did not want to be named, told the Reuters news agency.
Putri Munawaroh was arrested after police raided her house in Central Java, sparking a gunbattle that killed Noordin Top, the alleged head of the al-Qaida-linked network Jemaah Islamiyah, and three other suspects, including her husband.
The 21-year-old Munawaroh, then pregnant, was wounded in the September 2009 shootout. She later gave birth to a son, who lives with her in prison.
The South Jakarta District Court found her guilty of violating the country’s Anti-Terror Law by providing assistance to wanted militants, said presiding judge Ida Bagus Widyantara.
Noordin, a Malaysian national, was wanted in connection with a spate of bombings in Indonesia, including the 2002 attack on two Bali nightclubs that killed 202 people, many of them foreign tourists.
I smell rats - firing IG Gerald Walpin.
It seems that there is much more to this story than the firing of one man.
By now, anyone who follows the news or politics even peripherally is aware of the circumstances of the firing of Inspector General Gerald Walpin but, for the sake of thoroughness, I will recap the story.
Gerald Walpin was the Inspector General who was investigating Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson for possible misuse of funds at AmeriCorps, which is run by the Corporation for National and Community Service. Johnson and his program, known as St. Hope, received $850,000 in federal grant money. In the course of his investigation, Walpin learned that Johnson was using the money for things other than it was intended for, such as paying AmeriCorps staff for driving [Johnson] to personal appointments, washing his car, and running personal errands.
This was during the Sacramento Mayoral campaign, and Walpin concluded that Johnson and St. HOPE should be subject to suspension and debarment, but he only had the authority to suggest it.
And this:
Vast portions of Madagascar’s unique biodiversity could be lost - possibly forever, and at incalculable cost to ordinary Malagasy and the world - by the continued suspension of environmental funding in response to an ongoing political crisis, says a new report by the US Agency for International Development (USAID), the main environmental donor.
“In spite of numerous project successes, Madagascar’s environment is in significantly worse shape now than it was 25 years ago,” warned Paradise Lost?, an International Resources Group (IRG) report commissioned by the USAID.
No one likes to hear a crying toddler on an airplane—or anywhere for that matter. Some of us feel bad for the toddler (and her parents) and hope everything is okay. Others feel bad for themselves, call it bad luck, and pop on the headphones or take a sleeping pill.
American tourist Jean Barnard, 67, was boarding a Qantas airplane in Australia when a toddler leaned across the aisle and screamed in her ear as she was finding her seat. Barnard says her ears started bleeding and she became “stone cold deaf.” She was helped off the plane and taken to the hospital.
The day after the incident, she allegedly sent this email to a friend:
“I guess we are simply fortunate that my eardrum was exploding and I was swallowing blood. Had it not been for that, I would have dragged that kid out of his mother’s arms and stomped him to death. Then we would have an international incident.”
People who fake symptoms of mental illness can convince themselves that they genuinely have those symptoms, a new study suggests. People will also adopt and justify signs of illness that they never reported themselves when presented with manipulated answers, according to the study published online July 9 in the Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology. Not only do the findings demonstrate that deliberately feigning illness can evolve into an unconscious embellishment of symptoms, they indicate that self-perception of mental health is susceptible to suggestion. The study has particularly serious implications for cases in which people fake mental illness to take advantage of the legal system.
... you’ll have to pass the bill to find what’s in it.
Thirteen senators wrote a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius Wednesday urging her to “act immediately” to bar states operating the high-risk pools from covering elective abortions.
One of the major myths attached to the new health reform law is that it will lead to fewer emergency room visits. Instead of having to go to the ER, the claim goes, more efficient care will be administered to the newly insured in doctors offices by primary care physicians like me. ...
... Now we know better.
It’s not terribly surprising that real data from Massachusetts, which has had universal health coverage since 2006, show otherwise. From 2004 to 2008, ER visits in the Bay State rose by 9%, with no discernable improvement after 2006. Why? At least part of the reason has been the inability of patients to find primary care physicians for last-minute visits. Let’s face it: The ER won’t turn you away, but individual and overburdened doctors can and will. The Massachusetts Medical Society has reported that new patients wait for a primary care doctor visit up to two months.
And if tools define our species, then it’s our hands we have to thank.
It took millions of years for our hands to go from grasping tree limbs to writing poetry. And scientists believe that making stone tools helped propel that evolution.
At George Washington University, anthropologist Erin Marie Williams is trying to find out how that evolution took place. How did tool-making help shape our hands and wrists? She studies flint-knapping — the art of making stone tools the way our ancestors did.
“Everything that made us human was arguably given this big push by using stone tools,” Williams says, “and so I’m trying to see what it is about our anatomy that allowed us to be good at it compared to other species that weren’t good at it.”
A few years ago I took a cooking class from the executive chef at a very nice Denver hotel.
This was one of the dishes we prepared. It also contained 1/3 beef, 1/3 pork, and 1/3 lamb.
Click on the pict to see 49 others. (Clorado is at pict #3.)
For more than two decades the heirs of a world-renowned Jewish collector have been petitioning the Hungarian government to return more than $100 million worth of art, most of which has been hanging in Hungarian museums, where it was left for safekeeping during World War II or placed after being stolen by the Nazis and later returned to Hungary.
The requests have been rebuffed, as have appeals to the government from current and former United States senators, including the Democrats Christopher J. Dodd, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Edward M. Kennedy. Finally, in 2008, a Hungarian court ruled that the government was not required to return the art.
A 90-year-old retired civil servant has been charged with participating in the murder of 430,000 Jews in a Nazi death camp. The former guard came under the radar of the prosecutors during their investigation into John Demjanjuk.
Many had predicted that the Demjanjuk trial, currently underway in Munich, would be the last big Nazi war crimes trial in Germany. But public prosecutors have now indicted another elderly man on charges relating to the Holocaust.
Samuel K. has been charged with participating in the murder of 434,000 Jews at the Belzec camp in occupied Poland. He is also charged with shooting dead 10 Jewish prisoners, according to the testimony of another former guard who has since died.
Geez ...
Under a little-noticed provision of the recently passed financial-reform legislation, the Securities and Exchange Commission no longer has to comply with virtually all requests for information releases from the public, including those filed under the Freedom of Information Act.
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