Paul E Ester
Paul E Ester's JournalChicago woman was real-life stalker from 'The Natural'
The 19-year-old's crime, which put a spotlight on stalking crimes, nearly killed Waitkus, 29, and temporarily sidetracked his career. The incident also helped to draw attention to "baseball Annies" young, hero-worshipping groupies who would pursue major league ballplayers, often relentlessly.
However, from the time that Ruth Ann Steinhagen left Kankakee State Hospital in 1952 after undergoing nearly three years of psychiatric treatment, she disappeared into near obscurity so much so that one of her final next-door neighbors said he lived there for more than 15 years before learning her history.
Steinhagen, who never spoke publicly about the Waitkus incident after her release from the hospital, spent much of her final 42 years living in a modest house on the Northwest Side with her parents and sister.
She died Dec. 29 at Swedish Covenant Hospital of a subdural hematoma caused by an accidental fall in her longtime home, a Cook County medical examiner spokeswoman said. She was 83.
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-03-14/news/ct-spt-0315-steinhagen-eddie-waitkus-20130315_1_chicago-woman-ruth-ann-steinhagen-eddie-waitkus
Proof I guess that mentally ill criminals, even violent ones can be rehabilitated,
Footage from a SAA tank fighting the FSA. High def urban battle footage
What a city looks like in a sniper/tank war.
Sequestration to Privatization, First up the barbershop of the U.S. Senate.
Senate sergeant at arms Terry Gainer:
Ive accelerated my goal to get there through leveraging sequestration, Gainer explains. The only real way were going to change this thing around without pricing ourselves out of the market is by reducing the number of fulltime employees.
The sequestrations required spending cuts provide convenient cover. Gainer is offering early retirement to all eligible employees, hoping to replace them with independent contractors. Four employees have already accepted the offer, and they plan to retire in the next 60 days. Gainer likens these buyouts to those that corporations often make. He has no timeline for complete privatization, but is determined to see it through.
https://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/supercuts_707691.html
The millionaire Senate serviced by benefit-less independent contractors. The nimble American economy marches on.
Number of pigs in and near Shanghai goes to 12,566
The number of dead pigs retrieved from waters in and near China's financial hub of Shanghai has reached 12,566.
Authorities in Shanghai plucked 611 dead pig carcasses Saturday from Huangpu river, which provides drinking water to the city's 23 million residents. In total, 8,965 dead pigs have been found in the river since March 8.
The swollen and rotting pigs are largely believed to be from the upstream city of Jiaxing in neighboring Zhejiang province, but Zhao Shumei, a deputy mayor, said it was inconclusive to say all the pigs were from her city.
Jiaxing where small hog farms are prevalent reported Friday night that it had recovered 3,601 dead pigs from its streams, according to state media.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/Number-of-pigs-in-and-near-Shanghai-goes-to-12-566-4359742.php
World’s largest solar power plant opens tomorrow. (100 megawatt)
The inauguration of the worlds largest solar power plant in operation, the $600 million, 100 megawatt Shams-1 located 120 kilometres southwest of Abu Dhabi will enable its parent Masdar gain a competitive edge in developing and investing in similar projects in the region, said a senior official at Shams-1.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shams_solar_power_station
The project has been huge. Shams 1 has 258,048 parabolic trough mirrors, 192 solar collector assembly loops with eight solar collector assemblies per loop, 768 solar collector assembly units and 27, 648 absorber pipes.
Read more: http://www.thenational.ae/news/uae-news/environment/for-abu-dhabi-2030-vision-shams-1-is-about-knowing-and-diversifying
At some point they had to expand it, as the dust kept them from generating as much energy as calculated.
Reuters photo of the week.
Family grieves for soldier who died after six tours of dutyLesleigh Coyer, 25, of Saginaw, Michigan, lies down in front of the grave of her brother, Ryan Coyer, who served with the U.S. Army in both Iraq and Afghanistan, at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia on March 11, 2013. Coyer died one year ago.
At 26, Staff Sgt. Ryan Coyer already had a lifetime of accomplishments: four tours to Afghanistan, two tours to Iraq, and being named a member of the elite U.S. Army Rangers.
On Monday, the eve of the one-year anniversary of Coyers death, his family gathered at his graveside to commemorate that lifetime of accomplishments, unexpectedly cut short when Coyer died of cardiac arrest.
http://photoblog.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/12/17280866-family-grieves-for-soldier-who-died-after-six-tours-of-duty?lite
Was it his heart that failed him, or his country?
Police failed to test 11,303 rape kits in Detroit
Prosecutor leads effort to test long-abandoned rape kits, brings justice to victims
Wayne County, Mich., Prosecutor Kym Worthy has seen her share of grisly crime, but even she was shocked by a discovery in 2009 at a former police storage warehouse. There, stacks of dusty boxes were found on the shelves of the warehouse. The boxes contained thousands of untested rape kits, some decades old.
What we were potentially looking at, at that time, was over 10,000 rape kits, representing over 10,000 cases where women had reported, whose lives and what had happened to them was sitting on a shelf and nobody cared. I was shocked, and I think I was kind of stunned -- and not too much stuns me, Worthy told Kate Snow in an interview that aired Friday on NBCs Rock Center with Brian Williams.
Worthy and her team would ultimately discover 11,303 untested kits. Rape kits are what hospitals use to collect DNA evidence from a victim in hopes that police can test it and identify a rapist. Victims have to undergo a thorough exam that can take hours. The DNA evidence is often the most important evidence used to convict in a rape case.
To know that we had all of these potential victims sitting out there, all of them, mostly women, and nothing had been done, was just truly appalling, Worthy said.
http://rockcenter.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/15/15848051-prosecutor-leads-effort-to-test-long-abandoned-rape-kits-brings-justice-to-victims
So far, 600 kits have been tested, and investigators say that they have discovered evidence of 21 serial rapists.
One kit from 2002 revealed DNA belonging to a man who was in prison for the murder of three women. The murders had been committed during the seven years the rape kit sat on a warehouse shelf.
The police became accessories to rape, after the fact by ignoring evidence that proves guilt of a heinous crime. Money or politics?
This is how they treat a rape victim in India.(Swiss-tourist-gang-raped-in-central-India)
A Swiss woman, center, who was gang raped by a group of eight men while touring by bicycle with her husband, is escorted by policewomen for a medical examination at a hospital in Gwalior, in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, Saturday, March 16, 2013. Thirteen men were detained and questioned in connection with the attack, which occurred Friday night as the couple camped out in a forest after bicycling from the temple town of Orchha, local police officer R.K. Gurjar said. The men beat the couple and gang-raped the woman, he said. They also stole the couple's mobile phone, a laptop computer and 10,000 rupees ($185), Gurjar said.
Photo: AP
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/news/crime/article/Swiss-tourist-gang-raped-in-central-India-4359729.php#ixzz2NiyS29s2
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/news/crime/article/Swiss-tourist-gang-raped-in-central-India-4359729.php#ixzz2NiynYW2s
Your Brain Scans Show Who You're Thinking About
Scientists scanning the human brain can now tell whom a person is thinking of, the first time researchers have been able to identify what people are imagining from imaging technologies.
Work to visualize thought is starting to pile up successes. Recently, scientists have used brain scans to decode imagery directly from the brain, such as what number people have just seen and what memory a person is recalling.
They can now even reconstruct videos of what a person has watched based on their brain activity alone. Cornell University cognitive neuroscientist Nathan Spreng and his colleagues wanted to carry this research one step further by seeing if they could deduce the mental pictures of people that subjects conjure up in their heads.
We are trying to understand the physical mechanisms that allow us to have an inner world, and a part of that is how we represent other people in our mind, Spreng says.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/brain-scans-show-who-youre-thinking-about-2013-3
If you can decode, you can encode...
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