[Iran Press TV] A rape trial in Britannia has collapsed following claims that the judge fell asleep while an alleged child abuse victim was presenting evidence.
Barristers complained Judge Philip Cattan fell asleep as an under-age alleged victim was giving evidence via videolink in the trial of John Quigley at the Manchester crown court in England.
Following concerns that Cattan had missed vital evidence, the Crown Prosecution Service said "The jury has been discharged in the trial of R v John Quigley at Manchester crown court following an issue that arose at court during the cross-examination of the first complainant in the case. The trial will be relisted as soon as possible. The complainants and other witnesses have been kept informed."
Quigley is on trial for charges of rape of a child under 13, sexually assaulting a child under 13 and various other counts. The case, which has already cost the British taxpayers 10,000, is relisted for next month before a different judge.
Newly released figures have shown a 20 percent rise in sexual offences recorded by the police in England and Wales in the 12 months to the end of March 2014.
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[Chicago Tribune] At least 13 people have been shot in Chicago since Friday afternoon, including a 13-year-old boy fatally shot on the West Side and a 3-year-old boy critically maimed on the Southwest Side, authorities said.
The 3-year-old was shot about 10:15 p.m.in the 4400 block of South Sacramento Avenue in the Brighton Park neighborhood, authorities said. Charges are pending against three people in the attack, Police News Affairs Officer Jose Estrada said Saturday afternoon.
A shooting victim was taken from that area to Mount Sinai Hospital at death's door, according to a Chicago Fire Department front man.
The boy was outside with his mother and another man when two men and two women walked past and exchanged words with the boy's mother and the man she was with, police said. Someone among the group opened fire from down the block after walking by, police said, hitting only the boy.
The area is one coping with an ongoing gang conflict but it's not clear if the conflict is related to this particular shooting.
Earlier, the 13-year-old was one of seven people, most of them teenagers, shot about 6 p.m. in the 700 block of South Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Avenue in the Lawndale neighborhood, police said.
Also this evening, a 24-year-old man was shot in the right leg, left foot and buttocks about 9 p.m. in the 1800 block of East 79th Street in the South Shore neighborhood and taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in good condition. Someone opened fire from a dark sedan, police said.
Fifteen minutes later, a 17-year-old boy was shot in the city's Washington Heights neighborhood, said police. That shooting happened on the 1100 block of West Aberdeen Street. The boy was standing with a group of people when a dark-colored sedan drove up and someone inside the vehicle fired shots, said police.
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They oughta ban guns in Chica .... waitaminute - isn't the Big Chi a gun-free zone?
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A 13-year-old boy was killed and six others were wounded in a drive-by shooting Friday evening in the West Side East Garfield Park neighborhood, according to fire authorities.
[...] One person was dead at the scene, according to a Chicago Fire Department spokesman. Relatives identified the fatally shot victim as Samuel Walker, 13.
Walker’s aunt, Maribell Ruiz, says the teen would have been 14 next month. She described him as a studious teen and called his death senseless.
Studious? He was in summer school, which kind of belies an "un-studious-ness" about this supposed scholar.
And at the advanced age of 13, he already had 5 arrests, 3 of them for felonies. PCS, PCS with Intent, PCS/Manufacturing along with misdemeanors for Battery and Assault.....this kid was obviously a dope dealer and most likely the intended target along with one or more of his hooligan friends.
Far from being a "senseless" death, this one makes perfect sense to the individuals who want that corner.
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[An Nahar] Some 70 million years ago, three tyrannosaurs stalked together across a mud flat in Canada, possibly searching for prey.
The new insight comes from several parallel tyrannosaur tracks unearthed in Canada. The dinosaur tracks provide stronger evidence for a controversial theory: That the fearsome mega-predators hunted in packs.
The ferocious beasts may have "stuck together as a pack to increase their chances of bringing down prey and individually surviving," said study co-author Richard McCrea, a curator at the Peace Region Palaeontology Center in Canada.
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Almost any predator will hunt in a group if (1) the prey is physically large or (2) the prey is smaller but numerous. It's when the prey density thins out that single hunting begins.
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...so, sort of like bars on Friday and Saturday night?
[An Nahar] Giant anteaters in Brazil have killed two hunters in separate incidents, raising concerns about the animals' loss of habitat and the growing risk of dangerous encounters with people, researchers said. Important safety tip here. Keep a sharp eye out.
The long-nosed, hairy mammals are not typically aggressive toward people and are considered a vulnerable species by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), largely due to deforestation and human settlements that encroach on their territory.
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Dang it, Commodore Frank, you stole my thunder again! Got to get up earlier on Sunday morning.......
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But then, I will never get up as early as Commodore Frank, so I think upon that great Scottish song, and I know I yam blessed.....
Breakfast in My Bed on Sunday Morning
I never, never worry, worry, and I never, never grieve.
I take things nice and easy - what I canna take, I leave.
I work the whole week round, frae early morn till late at nicht.
On Saturday, I eagerly look forword wae delicht to....
Chorus
Beautiful Sunday! I wish it would never come Monday!
For I lie between the sheets my bed adornin'!
O, it's very nice, yes it's very very nice
To get yer breakfast in yer bed on Sunday morning.
What joy, what great delicht it is, to hear the kirk bells ring!
I wouldn't miss their welcome sound, no not for anythin'
When they commence to ring, I rise, but if it looks like rain,
I fill my pipe, then licht it, and go back to bed again on...
Chorus (twice)
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on weekends I sleep in til 4:30
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Ultra PC UCI will probably change their murderous, racist mascot now.
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they have poor vision and if frightened, they may defend themselves with front claws that are as long as pocketknives.
[An Nahar] A vast crater discovered in a remote region of Siberia known to locals as "the end of the world" is causing a sensation in Russia, with a group of scientists being sent to investigate.
The giant hole in the remote energy-rich Yamalo-Nenetsky region first came to light in a video uploaded to YouTube that has since been viewed more than seven million times.
"The crater is enormous in size -- you could fly down into it in several Mi-8s (helicopters) without being afraid of hitting anything," the person who posted the video, named only as Bulka, wrote.
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Yet another TESLA experiment gone awry? Tunguska redux?
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No 'dig marks' or 'heat signatures' on the slope below the surface.
Surface 'Domes' up. Dome 'Pops'. Most of previously domed surface falls into cavern below. Does leave some excess soil around the edges.
Ground there is usually frozen so could possibly contain underground pressure (from whatever) for some time. Perhaps enough that the pressure built up to a level creating this interesting anomaly.
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If it wasn't for the mounds of earth on the rim I'd say it looks like a sink hole.
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Itsa pingo whose ice core melted.
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Otto is right. We discussed this on WUWT a few days ago. "Pingos" are mounds where the underlying ice in the permafrost freezed in winter, and melts (some) in summer. The pingo builds up enough that the ice lens pushes the soil up around it, then melts, causing the dirt on top to collapse into the hole. There are tens of thousands of these all over the Arctic, from Scandinavia to eastern Canada. Some are much smaller, some in the Alaska northwest are twice this size, and elongated.
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D *** NG IT, there was supposed to be an Earth-shattering "Kaboom"!
We will hug it + love it + call the Crater "George".
Motherboard at Vice reports here the ebola outbreak is expected to last until October.
The Guardian reports here that Fort Worth doctor Kent Brantly has tested positively for ebola.
Worryingly the story states his family - wife and two kids - had been with him in Liberia earlier this year as he was wandering around infected people treating them.
They are back in the US. But the question in everyone's mind is - how long ago did they come back? Incubation is 2 to 21 days.
Are they being monitored/isolated or tested?
It's an important question because AllAfrica reports here that Patrick Sawyer, a Liberian finance ministry consultant who also worked with UNICEF, took ebola on a plane Tuesday from Liberia to Nigeria via Togo.
He was symptom free when he got on the flight, but by the time he reached Lagos he was vomiting and struck with diarrhoea.
By Friday he was dead.
Patrick's sister had ebola, and died three weeks ago. Patrick had said he had no contact with her, All Africa reports here.
So someone better be following up Kent Brantly's family to make sure they didn't fly ebola back to the US.
Meanwhile Britain is going to screen those flying in from the infected countries: Sierra Leone, Guinea, Liberia and Nigeria.
The Telegraph reports here security is to be stepped up around the Commonwealth Games.
In a new twist, superstitious ignorant rubes are attacking health workers after troublemakers spread rumours that ebola doesn't exist
Or worse, like this Muslim publication on a ramadan special, which printed journalist Abdul Fonti here spreading the rumour that western doctors are kidnapping and killing ebola patients.
This nasty Muslim rumour is what led to the family of an infected woman storming the hospital in Sierra Leone and kidnapping her as reported by ABC here. She later died - but not before infecting an unknown number of rubes.
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forgot to add: ebola is so deadly that in 2012 a ugandan man got it from an infected thumb print on a stolen mobile phone, as reported by NY daily news here and now it is potentially out in both the international air travel system and also the city of Lagos, Nigeria, home to 21 million people packed into 400sq km like a festering pit of sardines.
Well if it spreads that will be the end of those emails telling me I won the lotto...
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Here is the story from BBC on the woman who was busted out of hospital and later died. She was the first recorded case in the capital of Sierra Leone, Freetown.
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Stand by, let ISIS get one of their suicide jockeys to become infected, and then hit the mighty southern US border. by the time ebola is confirmed it has already been shipped all over the country.
[Dhaka Tribune] Prime Minister the loathesome Sheikh Hasina ...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums.. yesterday said her government would restore the provision of the original constitution to make the apex court judges accountable to the legislature, authorising the Jatiya Sangsad to impeach the judges for misconduct and violation of rules.
The 1972 constitution had the provision to make the judiciary accountable to parliament (subjected to vote of two-thirds majority), but military ruler General Ziaur Rahman changed the provision, changing Article 96 of the constitution.
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[Economist] The authors found that, on average, those who had East German roots cheated twice as much as those who had grown up in West Germany under capitalism. They also looked at how much time people had spent in East Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall. The longer the participants had been exposed to socialism, the greater the likelihood that they would claim improbable numbers of high rolls.
Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones said Friday that he sent a letter to Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, charging him for all the illegals in his jail.
What happened next? The Ohio sheriff told Dana Loesch: "The federal government sends me a letter and said I violated a treaty of like, 1790."
When Loesch asked for more information, Jones continued: "I sent him a bill for the prisoners that are in my jail. They came here illegally. I've not gotten any money from them, but I billed them so much. And I'll tell you what I got in return: my life was threatened."
Jones said he got a call from the FBI saying there were three sheriffs in the country that were going to be killed by the drug cartels, and he was one of the three. Hmmmm....Sheriff sends letter to Mexican pol who doesn't like the letter. Next, the Sheriff finds out he is on a cartel "Hit List." What a coinkidink!
We're more interesting than people expect, here in the middle of the American Midwest.
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Jones said the administration is making it “too easy” for those wishing to harm America to cross into the United States. That was the plan Sheriff all along, that is what the leftist community organizer Obama meant by a fundamental transformation of this country. Ohio was one of those states that went for Obama in 2008 and 2012. Perhaps, you should be thinking about his impeachment or ways to neuter him politically.
“They’re going to walk in with backpacks. They’re going to put some dirty bombs together, [and] they’re going to do something really terrible. Yup, that is going to happen.
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Since Butler County is Cong. Boehner's district, I'm sure we can expect a strong response from him to the Mex Embassy and a clarification of some bogus treaty scam. Not.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[An Nahar] Giant anteaters in Brazil have killed two hunters in separate incidents, raising concerns about the animals' loss of habitat and the growing risk of dangerous encounters with people, researchers said.
...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as 
