Woman hospitalized after allegedly stabbing daughter to death at Fort MacArthur, California
Wednesday, July 14, 2010 On Friday, the Los Angeles Police Department arrested and charged a woman with murder, after she reportedly stabbed her ten-year-old daughter to death at the Air Force base Fort MacArthur residential facility in San Pedro, California. The girl’s father is a former member of the Navy. The 49-year-old mother, Bong Sook Chavez, allegedly slit her daughter’s wrists and neck. Chavez slit her own wrists after attacking her daughter. In a statement issued on Monday, investigators say Chavez likely stabbed her daughter while she was asleep in bed. Deputy Chief Pat Gannon told the Los Angeles Times Chavez has a history of mental health problems. According to Gannon, “The father was able to get the weapon away from her.” The father awoke at around 2:30 a.m. local time to find Chavez attacking her daughter. The daughter, Quesi Chavez, later died at the University of Southern California’s Medical…
NASA’s InSight Lander makes it to Mars
Thursday, November 29, 2018 On Monday shortly before noon US west coast time (2000 UTC), NASA’s InSight lander successfully touched down on Elysium Planitia on Mars. It sent a signal beep and image of the surface of Mars to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. The lander used aerobraking with a heat shield, then a parachute and finally rockets to achieve a soft landing on the surface. It used similar entry, descent, and landing sequence to the Phoenix spacecraft. Insight project manager Tom Hoffman said, “We hit the Martian atmosphere at 12,300 mph [miles per hour; 19,800 kilometres per hour], and the whole sequence to touching down on the surface took only [six and a half] minutes […] During that short span of time, InSight had to autonomously perform dozens of operations and do them flawlessly — and by all indications, that is exactly what our spacecraft did.” InSight stands…
U.S. tariffs on Chinese solar panels to be contested
Saturday, October 3, 2009 The United States continues to implement new trade barriers; the most recent tariffs emerged on Wednesday, targeting solar panels imported from China. The new tariff is a result of a query submitted in December 2008 by GES USA, an American solar company. The resultant inquiry sought to clarify tariffs levied on solar panels imported from China, imports which, for nearly two decades, were considered a duty-free commodity. In early January, U.S. Customs officials reportedly informed the company that the solar panels contained electronic devices that place the panels in the electric generator import category which is subject to a 2.5% import tariff. Specifically, the ruling cited the presence of diodes on the solar panels as evidence of electric generation and hence they must be treated as an electric generator. Small solar panels already incur a 3.9% tariff. The January decision was made by a U.S. trade…
An Overview Of The 5 Steps Of Medical Device Product Development
Click Here To Know More About: Passive Fire Protection Brisbane Passive Fire Protection Sydney bytimothyharvard Referred to as stages or steps, there are 5 different phases or aspects of medical device product development. As there are significant regulations and requirements for all devices based on their intended use and their classification, it is essential to work with a medical device production company with an understanding of both the regulations as well as the production processes. By choosing a company offering medical device product development as well as ISO 13485 certification, the original designer has the option to tap into the year of experience and expertise in the medical device development offered by the company. In most cases, the top manufacturers of injection molded parts also provide engineering services and full support for their customers throughout the process. Stage 1: Research It is essential for the inventor of the new medical…
Dell joins Microsoft-Nortel VoIP Team
Saturday, October 20, 2007 Dell Inc. announced on Tuesday that it will partner up with the Microsoft-Nortel Innovative communications alliance (ICA) team to sell Unified Communications and VoIP products. The announcement on Tuesday the 16th of October 2007 includes Dell selling VoIP, data and wireless networking products from Nortel and the Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 and other unified communications products. The partnership with both manufacturers should allow Dell to provide a pre-integrated solution. In March 2007, competitors IBM and Cisco announced they would join in the competition for developing unified communications applications and the development of open technologies around the unified communications and collaboration (UC2) client platform an application programming interfaces (APIs) offered by IBM as a subset of Lotus Sametime. “We want to make it simple for our customers to deploy unified communications so their end users can get access to all their messages in one place –…
Solar-powered plane completes 26-hour flight
Thursday, July 8, 2010 The Solar Impulse, an experimental solar-powered airplane, landed in Switzerland on Thursday after completing a successful 26-hour test flight. The flight was a proof-of-concept displaying that a solar-powered aircraft can accumulate enough power from the sun during the day to power it through the night. The team that designed and built the aircraft believes that, in theory, the plane could fly indefinitely, given that there is enough sunlight to power it. The flight is the longest and highest flight by a piloted solar-powered aircraft, with an average altitude of about 28,000 feet, and an average speed of around 25 miles per hour. Pilot Andre Borschberg, a former fighter pilot in the Swiss air force, said “I’ve been a pilot for forty years now, but this flight has been the most incredible of my flying career. Just sitting there and watching the battery charge level rise and…
Why Is The Pathway To Mortgage Approval Tightening?
Click Here To Know More About: Granny Flats Lake Macquarie Backspace Living Why Is The Pathway To Mortgage Approval Tightening? by Frank Collins The mortgage credit tightening has affect lots of people nationwide. Many people last year decided to finally build their dream home when they were approved for construction financing. Once the credit guidelines tightened by lenders, many lenders who approved loans last year have backed out of their decision leaving the borrower with tough options. The tightening credit market is not just a problem for newbie buyers with bad credit. It is also affecting people who have great credit, reserves and stable employment. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tc2pDzfFJ4c[/youtube] For some who did not begin construction, they are lucky. Others who have almost completed their homes are left with a large loan that is coming due while a large portion of lenders will not touch it as a construction to permanent loan. The…
Texas representative proposes to outlaw ‘sexy’ cheerleading
Saturday, March 19, 2005 Houston, Texas representative Al Edwards proposed a bill last week to ban “sexually suggestive” cheerleading in Texas high schools, middle schools, and elementary schools. The movements typical to cheerleading are sexual, said Edwards, and send out the wrong message, especially as youth should be encouraged to be more reserved where sex is concerned. The penalty for schools that continue to allow the activity would be a cut in state funding. Edwards filed the bill after witnessing several performances in his district. Several others agree with Edwards’ proposal. “Anything that promotes family-oriented behaviour is a good thing,” said Rhonda Roberts, a director for the United Spirit Association. “I don’t think this law would really shake the industry at all. In fact, it would give parents a better feeling, mostly dads and boyfriends, too,” said J.M. Farias, who owns Austin Cheer Factory. He pointed out that cheering competitions…
William Salice, creator of Kinder Surprise eggs, dies at 83
Sunday, January 1, 2017 On Thursday, William Salice, credited with creating Kinder Surprise eggs, died at age 83 in Pavia, Italy because of a stroke, according to his foundation “Color Your Life Campus”. Salice had worked with the businessman Michele Ferrero in the 1960s, the creator of the Nutella cream and owner of Ferrero Rocher. Ferrero died in 2015. In 1974, Kinder Surprise was launched with plastic toys, which are sold within the eggs to surprise children. Due to this, the sale of Kinder eggs is prohibited in the US. A 1938 US law prohibits the sale of food containing objects in its interior. It is also prohibited in Chile, due to an obesity-reduction law brought in last year. Last year a three-year-old girl died in France, swallowing the plastic toy. In 2007, after his retirement, Salice founded Color Your Life Campus from his retirement bonus of €400,000 in Italy.…
Foreclosure Pets: Throwing The Puppy Out With The Mortgage}
Click Here To Know More About: Marc Ching Foreclosure Pets: Throwing the Puppy out With the Mortgage by Karrie Rose The six-bedroom, four-bath home in South Florida looked much like the other expensive homes emptied because of foreclosure, with one difference. A Labrador Retriever was left in the large, fully fenced backyard, pawing an empty water bowl. Luckily, neighbors heard “Buddy” whining and called the SPCA, saving him from the slow starvation that had already dropped him to 55 pounds from his former 70. Buddy was just one victim of a silent wave of cruelty sweeping the nation as spiking interest rates have ousted people from their homes. All over the nation, people who have had their houses taken by the bank are relocating. The problem that rescuers see is that they are relocating without taking their pets or, at the very least, surrendering them to a local shelter.”It’s horrific”,…