(Reuters) - St. Jude Medical Inc said its longest-serving board member Thomas Garrett died of multiple myeloma, a type of blood cancer. Garrett, who joined the company in 1979, was an independent director on the board for 34 years. Garrett advised St. Jude through a number of leadership transitions and legal matters, the company said in a statement. The company did not say when he died. The medical device maker faced a setback last week when its heart defibrillators were called for surveillance studies by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration after reports of defects. Shares of the Saint Paul, Minnesota-based company were down about 1 percent to $37.48 in morning trade on the New York Stock Exchange. (Reporting By Pallavi Ail in Bangalore; Editing by Roshni Menon)
This relates to the Frontline Video on Dying because in the video John suffered from myeloma as well.
(CNN) -- Gambia plans to execute all death row prisoners by September, the president said this week, sparking condemnation from human rights groups worldwide. The tiny West African nation last executed an inmate about 30 years ago. It is unclear what prompted the change in stance. By the end of last year, Gambia had 44 people on death row, including two women, according to human rights activists. Death row convicts will be executed by mid-September, President Yahya Jammeh said in a speech on state media Sunday that was rebroadcast Monday. "All those guilty of serious crimes and are condemned will face the full force of the law," he said. "All punishments prescribed by law will be maintained in the country to ensure that criminals get what they deserve: that is, that those who kill are killed ... By the middle of next month, all the death sentences would have been carried out to the letter." The nation imposes capital punishment for various crimes, including murder and treason, the latter commonly used to stifle dissent in some African nations. In 2010, British human rights group Reprieve said Gambia had introduced the death penalty for those found with more than 250 grams of cocaine or heroin. It's unclear whether the law still stands. Amnesty International, the French government and other rights groups condemned the execution order. "President Jammeh's comments are deeply troubling and will undoubtedly cause severe anguish to those on death row and their families," said Audrey Gaughran, the Africa director for Amnesty. "Any attempt to carry out this threat would be both deeply shocking and a major setback for human rights in Gambia." International standards on fair trials are not followed in the country, according to Gaughran. "Death sentences are known to be used as a tool against the political opposition," she said. "The number of grossly unfair trials is shocking and an especially serious concern in cases where the death penalty is handed down." In 2009, Jammeh made a similar threat to resume executions, but did not act on it, Amnesty said. Nonetheless, the new threat raises concern in the nation, the group said. The former British colony is surrounded by Senegal and has a population of 1.3 million. Jammeh took power in a military coup in 1994, and was elected president two years later. The government represses political opposition groups, and the president has won all elections since he came to power. Most of the polls are tainted by allegations of fraud. Gambia's human rights record has drawn steady criticism since his election, but the president has won supporters by building new hospitals, schools and other infrastructure.
This relates to the course and to the Frontline video. Both the video and this article show the power of decision making and can raise questions about human freedom, whether that freedom be in life or death.
RAWDON, Que. - A recently married bride wanted to be photographed one more time in her wedding dress.The photo shoot on Friday wound up killing her.A Montreal-area woman, married just under three months ago, dipped her toes into a river northeast of the city near the town of Rawdon. The water wasn't particularly deep or turbulent. But it began to seep into the dress, making it heavy. Eventually, the 30-year-old woman slipped from the rocks and was carried away by the Ouareau River. The photographer put down his equipment and tried to save her. He grabbed her with his hands," said provincial police spokesman, Sgt. Ronald McInnis. "(One witness) tried to help, but they couldn't save her. "The dress was too heavy."Two police officers arrived on the scene, took off their uniforms and jumped into the water to find her, McInnis said.He said the woman had been carried toward a more stagnant pool of water and disappeared there.Eventually an avid scuba diver, who had heard the news about the accident, arrived with his gear.He quickly found the woman's body."She had sunk to the bottom," McInnis said. The Laval, Que., woman had been married June 9.Police initially reported that the woman was on the verge of being married, and that the accident had occurred nearby at the better-known and notoriously hazardous Dorwin Falls. In fact, police explained later, the scene of the tragedy was not especially dangerous. "There's not a very strong current there, and not much water," McInnis said. "Her dress became full of water. It became too heavy."As for why the woman was being photographed in the river, in her bridal dress, months after the wedding, McInnis referred to a common practice known as "trash the dress" photo shoots."But I don't know," he said. "The investigation will tell us."Trash the dress is a form of wedding photography that involves taking photos of people in elegant clothing with an environment in which it is out of place.
I think this article shows us that we can go at any time and sometimes freak accidents occur. My parents always said to me growing up, "If not for the grace of God, there I go." It's scary to think that any one day could be your last,especially when it's such a happy occasion, but you cannot reason with death. It comes as a thief in the night.
* A man who shot his wife to death in an I.C.U. in Akron has been charged with murder, but friends say he was acting out of compassion. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/24/us/ohio-shooting-raises-questions-about-mercy-killings.html
* The photographer Nichole Sobecki went to South Sudan, where refugees pour into camps to escape bombardment. There, the mortality rate for children dying of malnutrition is double the established emergency threshold. http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/24/malnutrition-and-mourning-in-south-sudan/
Accepting a sentence that could keep him imprisoned for life, Anders Behring Breivik regretted not killing more people in a bomb and gun massacre that left 77 people dead.
Breivik's gruesome and defiant statement Friday marked the end of a legal process that has haunted Norway for 13 months.
Prosecutors said they, too, would not appeal the ruling by Oslo's district court, which declared the right-wing extremist sane enough to be held criminally responsible for attacks "unparalleled in Norwegian history."
"Since I don't recognize the authority of the court I cannot legitimize the Oslo district court by accepting the verdict," Breivik said. "At the same time I cannot appeal the verdict, because by appealing it I would legitimize the court."
Then, Breivik said he wanted to issue an apology, but it wasn't for the victims, most of them teenagers gunned down in one of the worst peacetime shooting massacres in modern history.
"I wish to apologize to all militant nationalists that I wasn't able to execute more," he said.
CRITTENDEN, Ky. - A suspected robber is dead after breaking in to a Boone County home early Monday morning.
Three men broke into 92-year-old Earl Jones' home in the 15000 block of Violet Road in Verona at about 2:40 a.m. and Jones shot one of the men as he was coming up the stairs of his basement, according to Boone County spokesperson, Tom Scheben. Jones used his .22 caliber rifle to shoot one of the robbers, 24-year-old Lloyd Maxwell of Richmond, in the chest.
Maxwell fled the scene with the two other men allegedly involved in the robbery. The two men took their injured friend to a 2001 Chevrolet Impala on Courtney Road and called police. The pair fabricated a story about the man's injury to try and get Maxwell medical attention, Scheben said.
Maxwell later died from his injuries.
Police identified the other men as 22-year-old Ryan Dalton and 20-year-old Donnie Inabnit-- both of Dry Ridge. Both are charged with second degree burglary and tampering with physical evidence. Dalton and Inabnit were charged in July with receiving stolen property, according to the Kenton County Police Department.
Jones is not facing charges for the shooting. Jones told officials that Monday morning's incident was the third time his home has been robbed.
"Somebody got into the basement, this is a full basement and I was on the bed fixing to go to bed," Jones said. "And I'm very sensitive, I was in the military, you have to have good ears. And I heard something just as I sat down, 'clonk, clonk, clonk,' and I said well somebody is in the basement and he's going to come upstairs. So I heard him when he was coming up the steps, I had the gun so I was sitting there when he opened the door."
Jones told 9 News he got the gun from Walmart for $500. He said this incident should send a message to would-be robbers.
"I've been robbed so much in the past five weeks, I said it's going to have to be a message to the people. The only way you going to stop this is you [going to] have to leave one laying in the grass. That's the only way you're [going to] stop it," Jones said.
I find this funny, young people robbing an old man they probably thought was close to death and he justly shoots and kills one.
Died September 3, 2012 Serving During Operation Enduring Freedom 21, of Dubois, Ind.; assigned to 1st Combat Engineer Battalion, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif. His parent command was Inspector/Instructor Staff, 4th Tank Battalion, 4th Marine Division, Marine Forces Reserve, Fort Knox, Ky.; died Sept. 3 in Helmand province, Afghanistan, while conducting combat operations.
http://news.yahoo.com/st-jude-medical-board-member-dies-cancer-155155478--finance.html
ReplyDeleteSt. Jude Medical board member dies of cancer
(Reuters) - St. Jude Medical Inc said its longest-serving board member Thomas Garrett died of multiple myeloma, a type of blood cancer.
Garrett, who joined the company in 1979, was an independent director on the board for 34 years.
Garrett advised St. Jude through a number of leadership transitions and legal matters, the company said in a statement.
The company did not say when he died.
The medical device maker faced a setback last week when its heart defibrillators were called for surveillance studies by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration after reports of defects.
Shares of the Saint Paul, Minnesota-based company were down about 1 percent to $37.48 in morning trade on the New York Stock Exchange.
(Reporting By Pallavi Ail in Bangalore; Editing by Roshni Menon)
This relates to the Frontline Video on Dying because in the video John suffered from myeloma as well.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/23/world/africa/gambia-inmates-execution/index.html
ReplyDelete(CNN) -- Gambia plans to execute all death row prisoners by September, the president said this week, sparking condemnation from human rights groups worldwide.
The tiny West African nation last executed an inmate about 30 years ago.
It is unclear what prompted the change in stance.
By the end of last year, Gambia had 44 people on death row, including two women, according to human rights activists.
Death row convicts will be executed by mid-September, President Yahya Jammeh said in a speech on state media Sunday that was rebroadcast Monday.
"All those guilty of serious crimes and are condemned will face the full force of the law," he said. "All punishments prescribed by law will be maintained in the country to ensure that criminals get what they deserve: that is, that those who kill are killed ... By the middle of next month, all the death sentences would have been carried out to the letter."
The nation imposes capital punishment for various crimes, including murder and treason, the latter commonly used to stifle dissent in some African nations.
In 2010, British human rights group Reprieve said Gambia had introduced the death penalty for those found with more than 250 grams of cocaine or heroin. It's unclear whether the law still stands.
Amnesty International, the French government and other rights groups condemned the execution order.
"President Jammeh's comments are deeply troubling and will undoubtedly cause severe anguish to those on death row and their families," said Audrey Gaughran, the Africa director for Amnesty. "Any attempt to carry out this threat would be both deeply shocking and a major setback for human rights in Gambia."
International standards on fair trials are not followed in the country, according to Gaughran.
"Death sentences are known to be used as a tool against the political opposition," she said. "The number of grossly unfair trials is shocking and an especially serious concern in cases where the death penalty is handed down."
In 2009, Jammeh made a similar threat to resume executions, but did not act on it, Amnesty said. Nonetheless, the new threat raises concern in the nation, the group said.
The former British colony is surrounded by Senegal and has a population of 1.3 million.
Jammeh took power in a military coup in 1994, and was elected president two years later. The government represses political opposition groups, and the president has won all elections since he came to power. Most of the polls are tainted by allegations of fraud.
Gambia's human rights record has drawn steady criticism since his election, but the president has won supporters by building new hospitals, schools and other infrastructure.
This relates to the course and to the Frontline video. Both the video and this article show the power of decision making and can raise questions about human freedom, whether that freedom be in life or death.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/08/24/new-bride-quebec-drowning_n_1828839.html?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmaing6%7Cdl1%7Csec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D197021
ReplyDeleteRAWDON, Que. - A recently married bride wanted to be photographed one more time in her wedding dress.The photo shoot on Friday wound up killing her.A Montreal-area woman, married just under three months ago, dipped her toes into a river northeast of the city near the town of Rawdon.
The water wasn't particularly deep or turbulent. But it began to seep into the dress, making it heavy.
Eventually, the 30-year-old woman slipped from the rocks and was carried away by the Ouareau River. The photographer put down his equipment and tried to save her. He grabbed her with his hands," said provincial police spokesman, Sgt. Ronald McInnis. "(One witness) tried to help, but they couldn't save her. "The dress was too heavy."Two police officers arrived on the scene, took off their uniforms and jumped into the water to find her, McInnis said.He said the woman had been carried toward a more stagnant pool of water and disappeared there.Eventually an avid scuba diver, who had heard the news about the accident, arrived with his gear.He quickly found the woman's body."She had sunk to the bottom," McInnis said. The Laval, Que., woman had been married June 9.Police initially reported that the woman was on the verge of being married, and that the accident had occurred nearby at the better-known and notoriously hazardous Dorwin Falls.
In fact, police explained later, the scene of the tragedy was not especially dangerous.
"There's not a very strong current there, and not much water," McInnis said.
"Her dress became full of water. It became too heavy."As for why the woman was being photographed in the river, in her bridal dress, months after the wedding, McInnis referred to a common practice known as "trash the dress" photo shoots."But I don't know," he said. "The investigation will tell us."Trash the dress is a form of wedding photography that involves taking photos of people in elegant clothing with an environment in which it is out of place.
I think this article shows us that we can go at any time and sometimes freak accidents occur. My parents always said to me growing up, "If not for the grace of God, there I go." It's scary to think that any one day could be your last,especially when it's such a happy occasion, but you cannot reason with death. It comes as a thief in the night.
Multiple news stories related to class:
ReplyDelete* A man who shot his wife to death in an I.C.U. in Akron has been charged with murder, but friends say he was acting out of compassion. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/24/us/ohio-shooting-raises-questions-about-mercy-killings.html
* The photographer Nichole Sobecki went to South Sudan, where refugees pour into camps to escape bombardment. There, the mortality rate for children dying of malnutrition is double the established emergency threshold. http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/24/malnutrition-and-mourning-in-south-sudan/
* http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/features/a-good-death/index.html
Accepting a sentence that could keep him imprisoned for life, Anders Behring Breivik regretted not killing more people in a bomb and gun massacre that left 77 people dead.
ReplyDeleteBreivik's gruesome and defiant statement Friday marked the end of a legal process that has haunted Norway for 13 months.
Prosecutors said they, too, would not appeal the ruling by Oslo's district court, which declared the right-wing extremist sane enough to be held criminally responsible for attacks "unparalleled in Norwegian history."
"Since I don't recognize the authority of the court I cannot legitimize the Oslo district court by accepting the verdict," Breivik said. "At the same time I cannot appeal the verdict, because by appealing it I would legitimize the court."
Then, Breivik said he wanted to issue an apology, but it wasn't for the victims, most of them teenagers gunned down in one of the worst peacetime shooting massacres in modern history.
"I wish to apologize to all militant nationalists that I wasn't able to execute more," he said.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/08/24/norway-anders-breivik-verdict.html
http://www.kypost.com/dpps/news/region_northern_kentucky/man-shot-in-chest-in-crittenden_7815899
ReplyDeleteCRITTENDEN, Ky. - A suspected robber is dead after breaking in to a Boone County home early Monday morning.
Three men broke into 92-year-old Earl Jones' home in the 15000 block of Violet Road in Verona at about 2:40 a.m. and Jones shot one of the men as he was coming up the stairs of his basement, according to Boone County spokesperson, Tom Scheben. Jones used his .22 caliber rifle to shoot one of the robbers, 24-year-old Lloyd Maxwell of Richmond, in the chest.
Maxwell fled the scene with the two other men allegedly involved in the robbery. The two men took their injured friend to a 2001 Chevrolet Impala on Courtney Road and called police. The pair fabricated a story about the man's injury to try and get Maxwell medical attention, Scheben said.
Maxwell later died from his injuries.
Police identified the other men as 22-year-old Ryan Dalton and 20-year-old Donnie Inabnit-- both of Dry Ridge. Both are charged with second degree burglary and tampering with physical evidence. Dalton and Inabnit were charged in July with receiving stolen property, according to the Kenton County Police Department.
Jones is not facing charges for the shooting. Jones told officials that Monday morning's incident was the third time his home has been robbed.
"Somebody got into the basement, this is a full basement and I was on the bed fixing to go to bed," Jones said. "And I'm very sensitive, I was in the military, you have to have good ears. And I heard something just as I sat down, 'clonk, clonk, clonk,' and I said well somebody is in the basement and he's going to come upstairs. So I heard him when he was coming up the steps, I had the gun so I was sitting there when he opened the door."
Jones told 9 News he got the gun from Walmart for $500. He said this incident should send a message to would-be robbers.
"I've been robbed so much in the past five weeks, I said it's going to have to be a message to the people. The only way you going to stop this is you [going to] have to leave one laying in the grass. That's the only way you're [going to] stop it," Jones said.
I find this funny, young people robbing an old man they probably thought was close to death and he justly shoots and kills one.
http://militarytimes.com/valor/marine-lance-cpl-alec-r-terwiske/6568334
ReplyDeleteMarine Lance Cpl. Alec R. Terwiske
Died September 3, 2012 Serving During Operation Enduring Freedom
21, of Dubois, Ind.; assigned to 1st Combat Engineer Battalion, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif. His parent command was Inspector/Instructor Staff, 4th Tank Battalion, 4th Marine Division, Marine Forces Reserve, Fort Knox, Ky.; died Sept. 3 in Helmand province, Afghanistan, while conducting combat operations.