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[Louis XIV]

What about in one hundred years...12/13/2114?

Thanks, 'Rain Man'. :clapping:

 

[Wanker]

Highest-paid athletes of 2014





https://www.torontosun.com/2014/12/16/interactive-highest-paid-athletes-of-2014

 

[Blubber]

 

[Beef Jerky]

Cairns stabbing: Eight children dead after incident in Manoora home


Eight children have been killed in Cairns in far north Queensland.

The victims were aged from 18 months to 15 years and it was believed a number of them were stabbed.
Follow all the developments in our live blog.
A crime scene has been set up at an address in suburban Manoora.

A 34-year-old woman has been taken to hospital with a chest wound.
Detective Inspector Bruno Asnicar said she was helping police with their enquiries.

"As it stands at the moment, there's no need for the public to be concerned about this other than the fact that it's a tragic, tragic event," he said.
"The situation is well controlled at the moment.
"There shouldn't be any concern for anyone else out of this environment."

Emergency crews were called to the address in Murray Street around 11:20am (AEST).
ABC reporter Sharnie Kim says there are about a dozen police vehicles at the scene, as well as the region's most senior detective inspectors.

"Part of the road has been blocked off and a police paddy wagon with lights flashing is at the property as well," she said.
"The media are about 20 metres away from the property."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-12...-children-dead-after-manoora-stabbing/5979452

 

[Wanker]

Cairns stabbing: Eight children dead after incident in Manoora home


Eight children have been killed in Cairns in far north Queensland.

The victims were aged from 18 months to 15 years and it was believed a number of them were stabbed.
Follow all the developments in our live blog.
A crime scene has been set up at an address in suburban Manoora.

A 34-year-old woman has been taken to hospital with a chest wound.
Detective Inspector Bruno Asnicar said she was helping police with their enquiries.

"As it stands at the moment, there's no need for the public to be concerned about this other than the fact that it's a tragic, tragic event," he said.
"The situation is well controlled at the moment.
"There shouldn't be any concern for anyone else out of this environment."

Emergency crews were called to the address in Murray Street around 11:20am (AEST).
ABC reporter Sharnie Kim says there are about a dozen police vehicles at the scene, as well as the region's most senior detective inspectors.

"Part of the road has been blocked off and a police paddy wagon with lights flashing is at the property as well," she said.
"The media are about 20 metres away from the property."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-12...-children-dead-after-manoora-stabbing/5979452

A very sad day in Australia.

 

[Wise Guy]

WILLOW CREEK, Calif. (AP) — A California Highway Patrol officer shot and killed a 17-year-old who attacked him with a machete, and the officer was hospitalized with major injuries, officials said.

The officer had responded to a report of a car hitting a telephone pole Thursday in the Humboldt County community of Willow Creek, CHP Capt. Adam Jager told the Eureka Times-Standard (https://bit.ly/1DVeozS ).

The officer and the boy stepped to the rear of the damaged car when the teen attacked the officer, Jager said. The officer raised his left arm to defend himself, Jager said, and also was struck on the hand and face.

Jager said the officer shot the teen an undisclosed number of times before locking himself in his patrol car and calling for backup. The teenager returned to his car and was honking the horn, Jager said.

Another officer arrived about 10 minutes later and found the teen lying naked next to his car, Jager said. The boy did not respond to the officer's commands, and the officer used a stun gun to place the teen in handcuffs. Jager described the teen as "completely erratic and irrational."

Paramedics treated the boy, who died at the scene. Officials said they had no history with the teen and the motive for the attack was unclear.
Officials did not immediately release the name of the teen or the officer, who was in stable condition. He has been on the job for two years and recently transferred from the San Francisco Bay Area to Humboldt County, about 100 miles south of the Oregon state line.

Klamath-Trinity Joint Unified School District Superintendent Jon Ray told the newspaper that several area schools closed Friday in light of the incident.

"It has a large impact, especially with students and kids, when they know somebody and know them very well and see them every day at school," Ray said. "It is hard to get through something like that."

 

[Anto]

How love works.

 

[Wanker]

Cairns stabbing: Eight children dead after incident in Manoora home


Eight children have been killed in Cairns in far north Queensland.

The victims were aged from 18 months to 15 years and it was believed a number of them were stabbed.
Follow all the developments in our live blog.
A crime scene has been set up at an address in suburban Manoora.

A 34-year-old woman has been taken to hospital with a chest wound.
Detective Inspector Bruno Asnicar said she was helping police with their enquiries.

"As it stands at the moment, there's no need for the public to be concerned about this other than the fact that it's a tragic, tragic event," he said.
"The situation is well controlled at the moment.
"There shouldn't be any concern for anyone else out of this environment."

Emergency crews were called to the address in Murray Street around 11:20am (AEST).
ABC reporter Sharnie Kim says there are about a dozen police vehicles at the scene, as well as the region's most senior detective inspectors.

"Part of the road has been blocked off and a police paddy wagon with lights flashing is at the property as well," she said.
"The media are about 20 metres away from the property."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-12...-children-dead-after-manoora-stabbing/5979452

[h=1]Woman charged with eight counts of murder in Cairns, Australia[/h] [h=2]Australian authorities have charged a woman suspected to be the mother of seven children and the aunt of another child who were all stabbed to death.[/h]
An Australian woman was charged with murder on Sunday in the deaths of seven of her children and her niece, whose bodies were found inside her home, police said.

Mersane Warria, 37, was charged with eight counts of murder in a bedside hearing at a hospital in the northern city of Cairns where she is recovering from stab wounds, Queensland state police said.

Police were called to the home in the Cairns suburb of Manoora on Friday morning after receiving a report of a woman with serious injuries. When they got to the house, they found the bodies, along with Warria, who was suffering from stab wounds to the chest.

Police haven't said how the children died, but Queensland Police Detective Inspector Bruno Asnicar said they're examining several knives in the home that may have been the weapon used to kill them. Suffocation was also a possible cause of death, he said.

"We are considering that and that's why it's taking a bit of time," he said. "It could be a range of things, from suffocation to 1,000 other things."

A coroner was conducting autopsies to officially determine the causes of death.

The children, four girls and four boys, ranged in age from 2 to 14, Asnicar said. Warria is the mother of seven of them; the eighth is her niece.

Police were not looking for any other suspects, Asnicar said.

Dozens of weeping mourners visited a makeshift memorial of flowers, stuffed animals and candles set up in a park next to the family's home. "My babies, my babies," one man wailed.

A church service was held on Sunday morning to honour the children and a candlelight vigil was scheduled for the evening.

The tragedy comes as Australia is still reeling from the shock of a deadly siege in a Sydney cafe. A gunman burst into the cafe in the heart of the city last week and took 18 hostages, two of whom were killed along with the gunman after police stormed in 16 hours later in a bid to end the standoff. Police had earlier said there were 17 hostages in the cafe, but revised the number after a new count.

"The news out of Cairns is heartbreaking," Prime Minister Tony Abbott said in a statement. "All parents would feel a gut-wrenching sadness at what has happened. This is an unspeakable crime. These are trying days for our country."

https://www.thestar.com/news/world/...ht_counts_of_murder_in_cairns_australia.html#

 

[Chloe Croft]

Whta about in one hundred years...12/13/2114?

That's what I was thinking. lol

 

[blackram]

Looks like whatever amount of oil might be under the Australian sands, it might now be uneconomical to drill it out, as the Saudis seem to be playing hardball with the rest of the world. The rest of the world may have more oil than the Saudis now, but the Saudis still have most cheap-to-drill oil. They can drive down the prices of oil, like they are now, and kill these babies before they're even born!

 

[papasmerf]

Looks like whatever amount of oil might be under the Australian sands, it might now be uneconomical to drill it out, as the Saudis seem to be playing hardball with the rest of the world. The rest of the world may have more oil than the Saudis now, but the Saudis still have most cheap-to-drill oil. They can drive down the prices of oil, like they are now, and kill these babies before they're even born!

The attraction to oil sands is the fact profit can be made if the price of oil is up.

Now that it is down the cost of recovery outweighs the profits.

 

[bobistheowl]

If you were a native of London, England, what would you rather see?

Spoiled young monied Arabs driving Ferraris, or drunken young monied Australians on vacation?

 

[blackram]

If you were a native of London, England, what would you rather see?

Spoiled young monied Arabs driving Ferraris, or drunken young monied Australians on vacation?

Considering how quickly these high-priced supercars catch on fire, you'd rather want no one driving them:

 

[bobistheowl]

Considering how quickly these high-priced supercars catch on fire, you'd rather want no one driving them:

What makes you think the native Londoners don't want that?

 

[bobistheowl]

Well....you don't often hear about state sponsored Australian terrorists.....but they do have every deadly evil organism known to man in their arsenal.

It sounds to me like you have never before met Australian men on vacation, Prim0.

That other part you said is because they don't always wear prophylactics when traveling in the Outback. Their locals don't seem to mind.

Oh, you said arsenal. I must have read it too fast. Never mind about that previous paragraph.

 

[Madman]

What is happening with the price of oil is clear proof of the manipulation that has been going on for ages. Many blame unions for the plight of the economy but in reality it's always been the "MAN" controlling everything from oil to the price of a pair of socks.

 

[bobistheowl]

What is happening with the price of oil is clear proof of the manipulation that has been going on for ages. Many blame unions for the plight of the economy but in reality it's always been the "MAN" controlling everything from oil to the price of a pair of socks.

Quite true, and I have made a lot of money in so doing. I've got a pretty big market share in women's shoes, as well.

 

[Champy]

That's what I was thinking. lol

Me too once I read it.

 

[Beef Jerky]

The High Court in Dublin ruled on the case after doctors sought legal advice on switching off life-support

A judge in Dublin's High Court has ruled that a life-support machine may be switched off in the case of a brain-dead woman who is 18 weeks pregnant.

The woman's family had wanted her life-support machine to be turned off.
Doctors had not granted their wishes as they were unsure of the legal status of the unborn child under the constitution in the Republic of Ireland.
The woman in the case was declared brain-dead on 3 December.

The court had heard that the chances of her unborn child being born alive were small.
'Dignity in death'
Lawyers for the unborn child had told the court that it must be satisfied that there was no real possibility of the foetus surviving before allowing the machine to be turned off.

Lawyers for the Health Service Executive (HSE), the body which runs all public health services in the Republic of Ireland,had argued that it would be lawfulto withdraw life-support in this case.
The woman is in her late 20s and has two other children.

The judge said that to "maintain and continue" the present support would "deprive her of dignity in death".
"It would subject her father, her partner and her young children to unimaginable distress in a futile exercise which commenced only because of fears held by treating medical specialists of potential legal consequences," he said.
'Privacy'

Irish Health Minister Leo Varadkar said he would be carefully examining the ruling.
"I wish to convey my heartfelt sympathies to the family and partner of the woman at the centre of this case at this most difficult time - particularly given the season," he said.

"This case and the judgement will need to be carefully examined before I can make any further comment on it.
"In the meantime, I would ask that the privacy of this family is respected, at this so difficult and challenging time."

 

[oldguyzer]

That's a tough one. I am in favor of the right to die, and don't believe in artifically prolonging life for no reason, but when there's a pregnancy the issue becomes clouded. At 18 weeks, it's not really viable, but if the mother had been kept on life support until the baby was viable, then what? And would the baby have been born without defects? There's not enough information to make a good decision either way. Ignoring the right-to-life argument (which I don't support), this is a tough one. In the end, I think terminating was likely the wisest decision, but there's always the "what if...".

Life and death decisions tend to be fairly cut-and-dried for most medical professionals, but ones like this throw the rules out the window...