Death sentences in 2008 Chinese tainted milk scandal
Monday, January 26, 2009 On Thursday, the municipal intermediate people’s court in Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, China pronounced sentences for 21 defendants implicated in the 2008 Chinese milk scandal which killed at least six infants and sickened nearly 300,000 others. In the local court’s decision, 17 accused were indicted for the crimes of “producing, adding melamine-laced ‘protein powder’ to infant milk or selling tainted, fake and substandard milk to Sanlu Group or 21 other dairy companies, including six who were charged with the crime of endangering public security by dangerous means.” Four other courts in Wuji County, in Hebei, China had also tried cases on the milk scandal. Zhang Yujun, age 40, of Quzhou County (Hebei), who produced and sold melamine-laced “protein powder” in the milk scandal, was convicted of endangering public security and sentenced to death by the Shijiazhuang intermediate people’s court. The court also imposed the penalty of death…
Australia/2006
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The Laser Manufacturing Process Known As Dmls
Here’s An Opinion On: Visit Www.Synergypack.Com The Laser Manufacturing Process Known As DMLS by Chris Waldo If you ve read any of my articles, I ve traditionally talked about 3D printing, and the uses of 3D printing I typically cover how it can impact some kind of industry, demographic or other technologies. I haven t truly broken down each individual process within 3D printing, so in this article I m going to cover (DMLS) or direct metal laser sintering. If I had one sentence to explain what DMLS is, I would say the following: DMLS is essentially the layer by layer assembly through laser melting processes when using metal. Let me go into depth on this form of 3D printing. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSEmB_6W1WE[/youtube] First off, in ANY form of 3D printing, some form of product will have to be developed on the computer through various CAD 3D softwares. The 3D printer has…
Two British girls arrested for smuggling in Ghana
Thursday, July 12, 2007 Two 16-year-old British girls were arrested in Accra, Ghana earlier this month for apparently attempting to smuggle £300,000 worth of cocaine in laptop bags. Yasemin Vatansever, of Cypriot descent and Yatunde Diya of Nigerian descent were arrested as they attempted to board a British Airways flight from the Kotoka International Airport on July 2, 2007. The arrest was by the Ghanaian Narcotic Control Board. They were alleged to be carrying 6.5 kg of drugs. They are currently in Ghana police custody and have been visited by British High Commission staff. The girls who are both students from Islington, north London, had left home after informing their families they were making a school trip to France. They are expected to be charged with “possessing narcotic drugs and attempting to export drugs”, for which they could be jailed for up to ten years if found guilty. The arrest…
US freezes assets of suspected terrorist
Friday, July 16, 2010 The United States Department of the Treasury has frozen the assets of terror suspect Anwar al-Awlaki. He is wanted in Yemen for his alleged participation in the Christmas Day bombing of a Northwest Airlines flight. Al-Awlaki was denoted as a “key leader” of al-Qaeda. According to US Treasury Undersecretary Stuart Levey, al-Awlaki “…has sought to encourage his supporters to provide money for terrorist causes.” Al-Awlaki was jailed in 2006 in a Yemen prison for kidnapping for ransom. He was released in 2007 and afterwards went into hiding. This move by the Treasury placed al-Awlaki onto a list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists. This freezes his assets, prevents American citizens from sending him money, and disallows him from traveling to the United States. Retrieved from “https://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=US_freezes_assets_of_suspected_terrorist&oldid=3738561”
McCain and Obama face off in U.S. presidential candidate debate
Sunday, September 28, 2008 The two major party presidential candidates in the US, Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain, faced each other yesterday in the first TV debate. Despite that McCain had asked to postpone the debate, both were present at the University of Mississippi. The debate, which was moderated by PBS‘ Jim Lehrer, was planned to be focused on foreign policy, however due to concerns about the US financial crisis, the debate began focused on economy. McCain repeatedly referred to his experience, drawing on stories from the past. Often, he joked of his age and at one point seemed to mock his opponent. Obama spoke of mistakes and repeatedly laid out detailed plans. The debate was widely seen as a draw. A CBS poll conducted after the debate on independent voters found that 38% felt it was a draw, 40% felt Obama had won, and 22% thought that…
A Plumber In Allentown For A Clog
Here’s An Opinion On: Buy Recycled Plastic Online byAlma Abell On the bottle of drain cleaning liquid, it tells you to allow 15 minutes to see if the liquid has taken care of the clog in your drain. As you sit there, every second feels like an hour. You stare at the liquid in your tub and you wait for it to go down, like the bottle promised you that it would. One minute… you can’t take your eyes off the drain. Five minutes… you are praying to whomever for it to start looking. Ten minutes… you notice nothing and begin to get very worried. Fifteen minutes… no movement at all, just a tub full of water that isn’t going to go anywhere on its own. This is the type of situation that you need a Plumber in Allentown that you trust to come in and take care of the…
Scottish judge criticises medical care of murdered baby
Saturday, November 27, 2010 A judge in the High Court in Aberdeen, Scotland has criticised the care doctors gave to baby Alexis Matheson. Lord Uist made the comments while sentencing Mark Simpson, who was yesterday convicted of murdering the six-week-old girl. Simpson, 29, will serve at least twenty years of his life sentence after he attacked Alexis — the child of his then-girlfriend Ilona Sheach, who he blamed for Alexis’s wounds — over the course of a month. The child suffered broken ribs and brain damage. Lord Uist said staff at Woodside Medical Group might have been able to prevent the death but failed to realise the baby was being hurt deliberately. Whether the death of baby Alexis could have been prevented had she been so referred is a matter which, in my opinion, merits a very full inquiry Sheach had initially been unable to get an appointment at Aberdeen-based…
Viktor Schreckengost dies at 101
Sunday, January 27, 2008 Viktor Schreckengost, the father of industrial design and creator of the Jazz Bowl, an iconic piece of Jazz Age art designed for Eleanor Roosevelt during his association with Cowan Pottery died yesterday. He was 101. Schreckengost was born on June 26, 1906 in Sebring, Ohio, United States. Schreckengost’s peers included the far more famous designers Raymond Loewy and Norman Bel Geddes. In 2000, the Cleveland Museum of Art curated the first ever retrospective of Schreckengost’s work. Stunning in scope, the exhibition included sculpture, pottery, dinnerware, drawings, and paintings. Retrieved from “https://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Viktor_Schreckengost_dies_at_101&oldid=2584756”
How Are The Heart And Fat Related?
Here’s An Opinion On: Gastric Sleeve Revision HOW ARE THE HEART AND FAT RELATED? by Alisha Pinto Heart is an extremely vital organ of our body. It is the organ that plays a major role in all functioning of the body. All our organs, including the brain require blood to operate. This blood is circulated and provided to all the organs by the heart. Most people usually take care about not contracting any heart diseases. With age, the capacity of the heart to work goes on decreasing, but here age is a natural factor and simply cannot be avoided. Some day or the other, every one must go through it. How you handle it matters. But nowadays, surveys have shown that cardio- vascular diseases have increased among the younger age group too. One of the main reasons for this, either directly or indirectly is their diet and simultaneously the weight…