A Brazilian MP breastfeeds her child at an open debate in the National assembly in July 2016.
Friday 22 July 2016
Brazilian MP breastfeeds in the National assembly
A Brazilian MP breastfeeds her child at an open debate in the National assembly in July 2016.
Saturday 2 July 2016
Tesla driver dies in first fatal autonomous car crash in US
Operator Was Watching Film And Speeding.
A driver with a history of speeding who was so enamoured of his Tesla Model S sedan that he nicknamed the car “Tessy“ and praised the safety benefits of its sophisticated ", Autopilot" system has become the first US fatality in a wreck involving a car in self-driving mode. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced the driver's death on Thursday , and said it is investigating the design and performance of the Autopilot system.
Joshua D Brown of Canton, Ohio, the 40-year-old owner of a technology company, was killed on May 7, 2016 in Williston, Florida, when his car's cameras failed to distinguish the white side of a turning tractor-trailer from a brightly lit sky and didn't automatically activate its brakes, according to statements by the government and the automaker. Just one month earlier, Brown had credited the Autopilot system for preventing a collision.
Frank Baressi, 62, the driver of the truck and owner of Okemah Express LLC, said the Tesla driver was "playing Harry Potter on the TV screen“ at the time of the crash and driving so quickly that "he went so fast through my trailer I didn't see him." The movie "was still playing when he died," Baressi said. He, however, acknowledged he didn't see the movie, only heard it. A digital video disc player was found in the car.
Tesla Motors Inc said it is not possible to watch videos on the Model S touch screen. There was no reference to the movie in initial police reports.
Brown's driving record showed he had eight speeding tickets in a six-year span. His published obituary described him as a member of the Navy SEALs for 11years and founder of Nexu Innovations Inc, working on wireless internet networks and camera systems.
Tesla said that this was the first known death in over 130 million miles of Autopilot operation. Before Autopilot can be used, drivers have to acknowledge that the system is an "assist feature" that requires a driver to keep both hands on the wheel at all time.
2 Muslim girls denied Swiss citizenship for refusing to swim with boys in school
Switzerland has rejected citizenship requests from two Muslim girls for refusing to take part in swimming lessons with boys at school. The girls aged 12 and 14 will no longer be considered for naturalised citizenship because they have not complied with the school curriculum, authorities in Basel said.
The girls are understood to have refused to take part in school swimming lessons because boys were present and their religion forbade that form of interaction, according to USA Today . Their applications for Swiss passports have now been overturned.
Meanwhile, the father of two other girls who refused to let his daughters swim with boys was fined $4,000 swiss francs (around £2,900) by a district court in another part of the country. Stefan Wehrle, president of the country's naturalisation committee, told TV station SRF that "whoever doesn't fulfil these conditions, violates the law and therefore cannot be naturalised."
The father, who was fined by a court in Altstaeten in the north-east of the country , had been in trouble with authorities previously for requiring his daughters to wear head veils in school, according to The Local. In the end, his eldest daughter was granted the right to wear a veil to school by Switzerland's highest court on the grounds of religious freedom.
The two cases in Switzerland are the latest in a series of refusals by authorities to grant immigrants citizenship for cultural reasons.
Two Muslim brothers who refused to shake hands with their female teacher on the grounds of religious restriction were also the centre of widespread media coverage and public uproar. The boys' father, an imam at the Basel mosque, immediately had his naturalisation request suspended by authorities, while any parent or guardian who refuses to shake a teacher's hand can now expect a $5,000 fine.
Yet the case is not always limited to instances of religious difference. The resident-led committees which lead recommendations for immigrants gaining citizenship have previously rejected applications on the grounds of people not seeming "Swiss enough".One immigrant family from Kosovo, who had been in the country for a decade, was told their tendency to wear shabby clothing and not greet passersby was proof of their lack of integration.
(Source: The Independent)
The girls are understood to have refused to take part in school swimming lessons because boys were present and their religion forbade that form of interaction, according to USA Today . Their applications for Swiss passports have now been overturned.
Meanwhile, the father of two other girls who refused to let his daughters swim with boys was fined $4,000 swiss francs (around £2,900) by a district court in another part of the country. Stefan Wehrle, president of the country's naturalisation committee, told TV station SRF that "whoever doesn't fulfil these conditions, violates the law and therefore cannot be naturalised."
The father, who was fined by a court in Altstaeten in the north-east of the country , had been in trouble with authorities previously for requiring his daughters to wear head veils in school, according to The Local. In the end, his eldest daughter was granted the right to wear a veil to school by Switzerland's highest court on the grounds of religious freedom.
The two cases in Switzerland are the latest in a series of refusals by authorities to grant immigrants citizenship for cultural reasons.
Two Muslim brothers who refused to shake hands with their female teacher on the grounds of religious restriction were also the centre of widespread media coverage and public uproar. The boys' father, an imam at the Basel mosque, immediately had his naturalisation request suspended by authorities, while any parent or guardian who refuses to shake a teacher's hand can now expect a $5,000 fine.
Yet the case is not always limited to instances of religious difference. The resident-led committees which lead recommendations for immigrants gaining citizenship have previously rejected applications on the grounds of people not seeming "Swiss enough".One immigrant family from Kosovo, who had been in the country for a decade, was told their tendency to wear shabby clothing and not greet passersby was proof of their lack of integration.
(Source: The Independent)
Woman wins right to give birth to grandchild
Honoring a dying wish - Woman wins right to give birth to grandchild
A 60-year-old woman determined to use her dead daughter's frozen eggs to give birth to her own grandchild won a crucial legal victory on Thursday (2016-06-30) in second-highest court in Britain.
The woman, referred to by the Court of Appeal in London as M., said she wanted to honour the last dying wish of her daughter, who died of bowel cancer in 2011 at the age of 28.The daughter had been adamant that she wanted her mother to carry her baby and have her parents raise the child.
The ruling is not the final word on the matter: The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, the governmental agency that blocked M.'s effort, said on Thursday that it would reconsider the case as soon as possible in light of the court's judgment.
The authority, the government's independent fertility regulatory body, ruled in 2014 that the daughter's eggs could not be removed from London and taken to a clinic in New York.
M. wanted to use the eggs to create an embryo with sperm from RING A, an anonymous donor, but the authority refused to approve the transport of the eggs abroad on the grounds that the daughter had not given her informed consent.
The high court in London upheld the authority's decision. M. then took her case to the court of appeal. On Thursday, the appeals court found that the fertility authority had set the bar too high in determining consent, finding that there was sufficient evidence of Mr. and Mrs. M.'s daughter's true wishes for her mother to have, and raise, her own grandchild.
During the appeal, lawyers acting for M. warned that the frozen eggs could "simply be allowed to perish" if M. was prevented from forging ahead with the conception.
(Source: NYT NEWS SERVICE)
A 60-year-old woman determined to use her dead daughter's frozen eggs to give birth to her own grandchild won a crucial legal victory on Thursday (2016-06-30) in second-highest court in Britain.
The woman, referred to by the Court of Appeal in London as M., said she wanted to honour the last dying wish of her daughter, who died of bowel cancer in 2011 at the age of 28.The daughter had been adamant that she wanted her mother to carry her baby and have her parents raise the child.
The ruling is not the final word on the matter: The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, the governmental agency that blocked M.'s effort, said on Thursday that it would reconsider the case as soon as possible in light of the court's judgment.
The authority, the government's independent fertility regulatory body, ruled in 2014 that the daughter's eggs could not be removed from London and taken to a clinic in New York.
M. wanted to use the eggs to create an embryo with sperm from RING A, an anonymous donor, but the authority refused to approve the transport of the eggs abroad on the grounds that the daughter had not given her informed consent.
The high court in London upheld the authority's decision. M. then took her case to the court of appeal. On Thursday, the appeals court found that the fertility authority had set the bar too high in determining consent, finding that there was sufficient evidence of Mr. and Mrs. M.'s daughter's true wishes for her mother to have, and raise, her own grandchild.
During the appeal, lawyers acting for M. warned that the frozen eggs could "simply be allowed to perish" if M. was prevented from forging ahead with the conception.
(Source: NYT NEWS SERVICE)
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