The woman, who was described as being in her 60s, was in shop in the town of Arona, about 10 miles from the popular beach resort of Los Christianos, when she was brutally stabbed to and then decapitated.
According to witnesses, the attacker, who is thought to be a homeless man of Bulgarian origin, entered the store, grabbed a knife and launched a frenzied and unprovoked attack on the woman.
He then decapitated her before leaving the store carrying her head.
Holidaymakers and locals on the Spanish island described their complete shock and horror after witnessing the scene, which took place at around 10.30am local time (9.30am GMT) on Friday.
The South Pacific island nation of Samoa is to jump forward in time by one day in order to boost its economy.
Samoa will do this by switching to the west side of the international date line, which it says will make it easier for it to do business with Australia and New Zealand.
At present, Samoa is 21 hours behind Sydney. From 29 December it will be three hours ahead.
The change comes 119 years after Samoa moved in the opposite direction.
Then, it transferred to the east side of the international date line in an effort to aid trade with the US and Europe.
Man Dies After Drinking Too Much. Bar Staff Charged With Manslaughter.
By Bock
May 5th, 2011 | | Category: CrimeTags: binge drinking, Graham ParishThe offence of Manslaughter due to gross negligence is not one I’m familiar with, but two hotel staff currently find themselves on trial facing this charge.
Back in 2008, a young Englishman, Graham Parish, who had arrived in Ireland the same day, was celebrating his 26th birthday along with his colleagues from Yorkshire. They were all working on an engineering installation at Dew Valley Foods in Thurles and decided to go out on the town to help Graham enjoy his big day.
Unfortunately, the celebration turned into a drinking contest. Somebody put a vodka in his pint and he drank the lot down. Somebody else put a double in his next pint, which he swallowed. Eventually, the young man issued a challenge to his pals : he’d drink ten shots of spirits faster than they could throw back a single pint.
Game on.
After checking with his manager Gary Wright, barman Aidan Dalton of the Hayes Hotel in Thurles served Graham Parish a large glass containing eight shots of liquor and he threw it back in one go before slipping off his stool unconscious.
He was later found dead due to acute alcohol poisoning and now the two bar staff are on trial for manslaughter.
I can’t express any view on the court case, but I think I know what the test of their guilt will be. If they knew that their actions were likely to cause his death, and if they were reckless as to the consequences, they’ll be found guilty. Otherwise, they must be acquitted.
As far as I know, none of Gary’s companions, who encouraged him to drink dangerous quantities of alcohol, were charged with any offence, which seems surprising.
If the staff are convicted, I wonder if there will be other implications. For example, if a drunken driver kills someone on the road, will the people who served him be charged with manslaughter?
The ramifications of this case will be interesting.
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Introduction
Electrons in germanium are confined to well-defined energy bands that are separated by "forbidden regions" of zero charge-carrier density. You can read about it yourself if you want to, although I don't recommend it. You'll have to wade through an obtuse, convoluted discussion about considering an arbitrary number of non-coupled harmonic-oscillator potentials and taking limits and so on. The upshot is that if you heat up a sample of germanium, electrons will jump from a non-conductive energy band to a conductive one, thereby creating a measurable change in resistivity. This relation between temperature and resistivity can be shown to be exponential in certain temperature regimes by waving your hands and chanting "to first order".
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