https://phys.org/news/2025-06-glass-bottles-microplastics-plastic.html
Glass bottles found to contain more microplastics than plastic bottles

Breaking news: Scientists paid to find a problem find the problem.

 

The Phillie pocket-knife fold.

 

The Phillie pocket-knife fold.

I've been having a harder time touching my toes as I've grown older.

Will this help?

 

The Phillie pocket-knife fold.

 

It doesn't matter how successful you are, or how much money you've made ... in the end, the same fate awaits us all:

Billionaire's death after swallowing bee raises questions about rare cardiac reaction


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Kapur was the chairman of Sona Comstar, an Indian automotive components manufacturer.

 

Drop in any time

 

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https://dnyuz.com/2025/07/01/brussels-atomium-closes-early-because-its-balls-are-too-hot/

 

In 2011, an 11-year-old girl in Brazil was diagnosed with extreme hyperdontia confirmed by panoramic X-ray. She had 18 baby teeth, 32 permanent teeth, and an astonishing 31 extra teeth. The non‑syndromic case involved a pericentric inversion on chromosome 9. A team of oral surgeons, orthodontists, periodontists, and prosthodontists staged extractions and orthodontic care to preserve jaw structure and restore normal bite alignment. This remains one of the rarest dental anomalies ever documented.

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In 2011, an 11-year-old girl in Brazil was diagnosed with extreme hyperdontia confirmed by panoramic X-ray. She had 18 baby teeth, 32 permanent teeth, and an astonishing 31 extra teeth. The non‑syndromic case involved a pericentric inversion on chromosome 9. A team of oral surgeons, orthodontists, periodontists, and prosthodontists staged extractions and orthodontic care to preserve jaw structure and restore normal bite alignment. This remains one of the rarest dental anomalies ever documented.

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I had hyperdontia, though it was of the more common variety involving two supernumerary teeth behind my upper wisdom teeth. All six (including the bottom wisdom teeth) were pulled at the same time. The worst part was that the Novocain didn't reach back to the extra teeth and we didn't know that until the dentist starting working on them. Almost as bad was the fact that my shop chief was the kind of person that wouldn't give me any time off except for the extractions themselves, so I had to report to the hospital first thing in the morning and, from there, go directly to the shop and finish my normal shift. Fortunately, the civilians in the shop took pity and told me to hide in the break room all day while they covered for me.

 

Fortunately, the civilians in the shop took pity and told me to hide in the break room all day while they covered for me.

That speaks well of you ... you had good friends at work ...

 

That speaks well of you ... you had good friends at work ...

The civilians we had (three of them) were all wonderful people. I got very close to two of them, one on a mostly-professional basis and one of them that took me under his wing and invited me to his family's house for major holidays (and occasional dinners for no reason).

 

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/oqlf-go-habs-go-ok-1.7576171

Using 'go' to cheer on sports teams is now OK, says Quebec language watchdog

OQLF maintains that 'allez' is the preferred term

 

 

https://localstories247.com/no-jail...-without-permission-to-use-as-frostbite-prop/
Spring Valley, WI – A Wisconsin nurse, Mary K. Brown, 40, pleaded no contest on July 10, 2025, to a misdemeanor charge of negligently abusing a patient after performing an unauthorized amputation of a 62-year-old man’s foot in 2022.

The disturbing incident, which took place at Spring Valley Senior Living and Healthcare Campus, led to the death of patient Doug McFarland days later and has sparked outrage over medical ethics and patient safety.

 

https://localstories247.com/no-jail...-without-permission-to-use-as-frostbite-prop/
Spring Valley, WI – A Wisconsin nurse, Mary K. Brown, 40, pleaded no contest on July 10, 2025, to a misdemeanor charge of negligently abusing a patient after performing an unauthorized amputation of a 62-year-old man’s foot in 2022.

The disturbing incident, which took place at Spring Valley Senior Living and Healthcare Campus, led to the death of patient Doug McFarland days later and has sparked outrage over medical ethics and patient safety.

It appears that she clearly had neither the authority or the training to perform the amputation. It would then seem to come down to her being able to make the claim that the situation was so dire that waiting for authorization and for someone properly trained to perform the amputation was not feasible. That seems like something that would be hard to claim in a care facility. About the only way to make the claim would be that multiple efforts to get the authorization and someone to do it were falling on deaf ears with no end in sight.

But, even then, it would seem that she had no excuse for doing it without the patient's consent. Was the patient comatose or so mentally impaired that they couldn't make informed decisions about their own care? If so, who had authority to make those decisions and why weren't they consulted.

Then there's the whole issue of taking the foot to create a display for her family's taxidermy business. At the very least, what right would she have had to the amputated foot even if the amputation itself had been done completely by the book?

Sure sounds to me like her motivation had very little to do with the patient's best interests and more to do with her seeing an opportunity and taking it.

 

I'll take that in twenties.
https://www.koin.com/news/crime/man...olen-excavator-in-clackamas-county-atm-heist/

 

https://apnews.com/article/thailand...kmail-arrest-3aa4563236232a2c4fa2b836527717fe
Thai police arrest woman who allegedly seduced and blackmailed Buddhist monks

At least nine abbots and senior monks involved in the scandal have been disrobed...
Wilawan’s bank accounts received around 385 million baht ($11.9 million) in the past three years, but most of the funds were spent on online gambling websites, police said.

At least the money was spent well this time instead of wasted.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-40678511

 

https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/how-did-a-broward-sheriffs-patrol-car-end-up-in-england-23626170

Are American cop cars a thing in Europe?

https://www.threads.com/@bungeeking/post/DL2o_1ABaCj

 

https://www.andrewwatters.com/investigations/alice-ku/
Missing person in Taiwan was the victim of spousal homicide on November 29, 2019.

July 20, 2025: Now that the case has gone to verdict, I'm releasing my report to the FBI, which was previously disclosed to the defense. Nothing has changed since late November 2020 except that we have more evidence and more certainty than before. I should update this with the trial testimony and transcripts, plus I have even more material to share in the near future. I'm intending to present a video-recorded masterclass on this case at some point.

July 18, 2025: Jury verdict for Plaintiffs for wrongful death for $23.2 million. I can now legally say that Dr. Herchen killed his wife in Taiwan on November 29, 2019. I spoke to about nine jurors after the trial and they were shocked to learn even more, like the fact that there is a whole online case study (this web page). I will be updating this in the near future with my analysis of the trial and some other information.
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Summary

This case started off as a missing person investigation, in which the victim disappeared in Taiwan on November 29, 2019. I was hired in mid-December 2019 and filed a petition for conservatorship of her estate, according to law. Investigation over the following year revealed that the prime suspect-- the victim's husband-- sent a "proof of life" email from the victim's email account from the hotel where he was staying by himself on the night of the disappearance. The email was supposedly sent from the other side of Taiwan, but we proved that is not the case. The victim's final selfie was at 11:17 a.m. on November 29, 2019, and the initial email that the suspect sent (and then replied to himself from her account) was at 9:11 p.m. that day. This results in a 10-hour window in which the victim died. Investigation in Taiwan revealed that the victim never left Taiwan, among other things. We believe there is no reason for the proof of life email exchange unless the suspect committed this homicide-- similar to the case of U.S.A. v. Brimager, which was a prosecution for overseas murder in which the defendant sent fake emails from the victim's account. As such, I am accusing Dr. Harald Herchen of Los Altos of homicide, and potentially murder of a U.S. national abroad in violation of 18 U.S.C. sec. 1119, as well as potentially murder in violation of the local law of the Republic of China (Dr. Herchen is currently wanted for homicide in Taiwan pursuant to an arrest warrant). The wrongful death case is pending in Santa Clara County, filed in 2021 and likely to go to trial in 2023. The purpose of this web page is to provide a case study and describe how we developed the case to its logical conclusion using legal process and traditional investigative means. Everything posted here is public record, as there have been various filings in the case that revealed this information. I stand behind my findings 100% and will provide this rare look at work product and my thoughts and impressions in the service of missing persons generally. The fact that a suspect can allegedly commit a homicide overseas and then continue to walk as a free man in the U.S. demonstrates the need for extradition between the U.S. and Taiwan, and therefore a resolution of the diplomatic status of Taiwan.

https://www.andrewwatters.com/investigations/alice-ku/files/Ku-ROI.pdf