A man aged 29 has fathered 21 children with 11 different women, it emerged yesterday.
Desmond Hatchett's brood came to light after authorities in Tennessee in the U.S. took him to court for non-payment of child support.
He has apparently set a U.S. record but said: 'It just happened.'
He added that he would not have any more children. 'I'm done. I'll say I'm done,' he said.
Hatchett, who earns a minimal wage, told TV reporters he knows the names and ages of all his offspring.
Their ages range from newborn to 11 years old.
Authorities in Knoxville said they plan to take half of his monthly salary to pay for the youngsters but officials said that would work out to just over £1 a week for each.
His lawyer Keith Pope said: 'The children can't all be supported by Desmond, so the state of Tennessee has had to step in.'
Many Knoxville residents called for him to be castrated.
He even boasted of fathering four children by different women in the same year.
Hatchett's name appeared on court documents 11 times representing 15 of his 21 children.
U.S. authorities are now braced for more women coming forward to claim Hatchett is the father of their children after he appeared on local TV.
He said the women he was involved with all knew he had other children.
One mother, who has two children with Hatchett, said she should get £44 a month but rarely receives any child support.
'It's frustrating, but usually, when I ask he gives it to me,' she said.
Authorities in Knoxville ordered Hatchett to court to explain how he intends to pay child support.
He arrived for the hearing with just over £300.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/...en--hes-29.html
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Saturday, May 23, 2009
Asthma Facts
Asthma is an inflammatory disorder of the airways, and if not properly managed, can be a life threatening disease.
1. The World health Organization (WHO) estimates that 300 million people around the world suffer from asthma.
2. According to WHO, exposure to indoor allergens such as dust mites in bedding, carpets and stuffed toys, and outdoor allergens such as pollen, mold and tobacco smoke, are the biggest risk factors of developing asthma. Haze aggravates asthma symptoms.
3. Asthma can occur among the elderly.
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Green about the gills
Source: Ananova.com
A German scientist is claiming to have proved that fish can become 'seasick'.
Dr Reinhold Hilbig, a zoologist from Stuttgart, studied the effects of weightlessness in water as part of research into how humans are affected in space.
Forty-nine fish in a mini aquarium were sent up in a plane that went into a steep dive, simulating the loss of gravity astronauts encounter in space flight.
He said eight of the fish began turning around and around in circles, reports the Daily Telegraph.
"They completely lost their sense of balance, behaving like humans who get seasick," said Dr. Hilbig.
"The fish lost their orientation, they became completely confused and looked as if they were about to vomit. In the wild such a seasick fish would become prey for others because they are incapable of fleeing from danger."
The eight seasick fish were later culled and their brains examined to try to determine the exact cause of their sickness.
"It would seem the loss of eye contact with water movement and vibrations plays a large part in their disorientation," Dr Hilbig said.
A German scientist is claiming to have proved that fish can become 'seasick'.
Dr Reinhold Hilbig, a zoologist from Stuttgart, studied the effects of weightlessness in water as part of research into how humans are affected in space.
Forty-nine fish in a mini aquarium were sent up in a plane that went into a steep dive, simulating the loss of gravity astronauts encounter in space flight.
He said eight of the fish began turning around and around in circles, reports the Daily Telegraph.
"They completely lost their sense of balance, behaving like humans who get seasick," said Dr. Hilbig.
"The fish lost their orientation, they became completely confused and looked as if they were about to vomit. In the wild such a seasick fish would become prey for others because they are incapable of fleeing from danger."
The eight seasick fish were later culled and their brains examined to try to determine the exact cause of their sickness.
"It would seem the loss of eye contact with water movement and vibrations plays a large part in their disorientation," Dr Hilbig said.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Dad throws baby into boiling water
BARELY 10 months old, the little girl has had to suffer pain that's as excruciating as 'being slashed by a thousand knives'.
That was what happened in Changhua county, Taiwan, on Saturday after her alcoholic father threw her into boiling water following an argument with his live-in girlfriend.
The father known only as Mr Huang, 47, runs a noodle factory with his girlfriend, Ms Lin, 45.
After finishing his deliveries at 5am that day, Mr Huang met one of the stallholders for a drink. They had sorghum wine which is high in alcohol content.
Mr Huang returned to his noodle factory only at about 10am. By then, Ms Lin was livid.
She was carrying their baby in one arm, and stirring noodles in a gigantic wok of boiling water in another.
She reprimanded him: 'We are already so busy at work, and you still have time to go drinking?'
An argument broke out. It reached a point where Ms Lin dared Mr Huang to throw their 10-month-old daughter into the boiling water.
Anger
In a fit of anger, Mr Huang allegedly snatched the baby from Ms Lin and dumped her into the wok.
The baby wailed in pain. Although a shocked Ms Lin managed to whisk the baby out, the damage had been done.
Ninety per cent of her body was scalded, but her head and neck region were spared.
Ms Lin then flushed the baby with cold water but while removing the clothing, part of the baby's skin came off, adding to the pain.
Terrified, she ran home with the crying baby in her arms and got her younger brother to drive them to hospital.
Unfortunately, there was a traffic jam. Desperate, Ms Lin got out of the car and carried the baby to a nearby police station.
The police placed the baby in a basin of cold water and called for an ambulance.
The baby was later sent to the burns unit of Changhua Christian Hospital.
As her temperature was too low, her blood pressure was unstable, and she was crying non-stop, the doctor decided to inject her with an anaesthetic.
She is still in a critical condition, reported Apple Daily Taiwan.
A doctor described the baby's pain as 'being slashed by a thousand knives', and almost 10 times worse than labour pains.
When police arrived at Mr Huang's factory to arrest him, he was by his wok, cooking noodles, as if nothing had happened.
At the police station, he said: 'I don't mean to put the baby in the boiling water. I really regret what I did after having a drop too much.'
He will face charges of attempting to kill his daughter.
Mr Huang's neighbours told Apple Daily that he and Ms Lin were both divorced and had been cohabiting for 12 years.
They have another daughter, who is in Primary 5, and has been sent to a welfare home temporarily.
Neighbours said they have often seen the couple fighting, especially after Mr Huang has had too much to drink.
Said one of them: 'He's really a cold-blooded animal. This kind of father just ought to be shot.'
http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/news/story/0,...,199550,00.html?
That was what happened in Changhua county, Taiwan, on Saturday after her alcoholic father threw her into boiling water following an argument with his live-in girlfriend.
The father known only as Mr Huang, 47, runs a noodle factory with his girlfriend, Ms Lin, 45.
After finishing his deliveries at 5am that day, Mr Huang met one of the stallholders for a drink. They had sorghum wine which is high in alcohol content.
Mr Huang returned to his noodle factory only at about 10am. By then, Ms Lin was livid.
She was carrying their baby in one arm, and stirring noodles in a gigantic wok of boiling water in another.
She reprimanded him: 'We are already so busy at work, and you still have time to go drinking?'
An argument broke out. It reached a point where Ms Lin dared Mr Huang to throw their 10-month-old daughter into the boiling water.
Anger
In a fit of anger, Mr Huang allegedly snatched the baby from Ms Lin and dumped her into the wok.
The baby wailed in pain. Although a shocked Ms Lin managed to whisk the baby out, the damage had been done.
Ninety per cent of her body was scalded, but her head and neck region were spared.
Ms Lin then flushed the baby with cold water but while removing the clothing, part of the baby's skin came off, adding to the pain.
Terrified, she ran home with the crying baby in her arms and got her younger brother to drive them to hospital.
Unfortunately, there was a traffic jam. Desperate, Ms Lin got out of the car and carried the baby to a nearby police station.
The police placed the baby in a basin of cold water and called for an ambulance.
The baby was later sent to the burns unit of Changhua Christian Hospital.
As her temperature was too low, her blood pressure was unstable, and she was crying non-stop, the doctor decided to inject her with an anaesthetic.
She is still in a critical condition, reported Apple Daily Taiwan.
A doctor described the baby's pain as 'being slashed by a thousand knives', and almost 10 times worse than labour pains.
When police arrived at Mr Huang's factory to arrest him, he was by his wok, cooking noodles, as if nothing had happened.
At the police station, he said: 'I don't mean to put the baby in the boiling water. I really regret what I did after having a drop too much.'
He will face charges of attempting to kill his daughter.
Mr Huang's neighbours told Apple Daily that he and Ms Lin were both divorced and had been cohabiting for 12 years.
They have another daughter, who is in Primary 5, and has been sent to a welfare home temporarily.
Neighbours said they have often seen the couple fighting, especially after Mr Huang has had too much to drink.
Said one of them: 'He's really a cold-blooded animal. This kind of father just ought to be shot.'
http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/news/story/0,...,199550,00.html?
Teenage girl died in agony 'after hospital said she was just a drama queen'
A teenage girl died in agony in hospital days after medics dismissed her as a 'drama queen' whose pain was 'all psychological', an inquest has heard.
Sian Jones, 15, was admitted to hospital with stomach pains, which doctors suspected were caused by appendicitis.
When they removed her appendix the next day, her condition continued to worsen.
Doctors said the pain was from the operation and missed a series of tell-tale signs that she was suffering from perienteritis - a serious infection that inflames the lining of the stomach and intestines.
Sian, from Stirchley, Birmingham, died from multiple organ failure, brought on by the infection, a week after being admitted to the city's Heartlands Hospital in August 2007.
Her sister Sarah, 22, said that four days before Sian's death, staff had told their father 'there was nothing physically wrong with her and that it was all psychological, that she was a drama queen'.
The family claimed staff also said the pain was brought on by problems at home, as Sian's father, Andrew, was fighting leukaemia. He has since died from the illness.
The inquest at Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, heard the medic who had most contact with Sian, Dr Nehtab Ahmad, had only started her surgical training at the hospital three days earlier.
Dr Ahmad told the hearing the surgical team, including two more senior surgeons, 'thought there was nothing amiss surgically and had been falsely reassured by a CT scan and a review from a paediatric doctor'.
The doctor added: 'With the benefit of hindsight I can see that she was getting worse, but at the time it was not so obvious. In hindsight all the factors were viewed independently and not together.
'The emotional aspect had been raised to me by my seniors and psychological issues were raised in a conversation with her father.'
The inquest continues
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11...rama-queen.html
Sian Jones, 15, was admitted to hospital with stomach pains, which doctors suspected were caused by appendicitis.
When they removed her appendix the next day, her condition continued to worsen.
Doctors said the pain was from the operation and missed a series of tell-tale signs that she was suffering from perienteritis - a serious infection that inflames the lining of the stomach and intestines.
Sian, from Stirchley, Birmingham, died from multiple organ failure, brought on by the infection, a week after being admitted to the city's Heartlands Hospital in August 2007.
Her sister Sarah, 22, said that four days before Sian's death, staff had told their father 'there was nothing physically wrong with her and that it was all psychological, that she was a drama queen'.
The family claimed staff also said the pain was brought on by problems at home, as Sian's father, Andrew, was fighting leukaemia. He has since died from the illness.
The inquest at Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, heard the medic who had most contact with Sian, Dr Nehtab Ahmad, had only started her surgical training at the hospital three days earlier.
Dr Ahmad told the hearing the surgical team, including two more senior surgeons, 'thought there was nothing amiss surgically and had been falsely reassured by a CT scan and a review from a paediatric doctor'.
The doctor added: 'With the benefit of hindsight I can see that she was getting worse, but at the time it was not so obvious. In hindsight all the factors were viewed independently and not together.
'The emotional aspect had been raised to me by my seniors and psychological issues were raised in a conversation with her father.'
The inquest continues
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11...rama-queen.html
Japanese woman gets death for curry murder
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan's Supreme Court sentenced a woman to death on Tuesday for killing four and making more than 60 ill by poisoning a large pot of curry at a summer festival in 1998, a case widely covered in domestic media.
The incident shocked Japan, where crime rates are relatively low and mass killings extremely rare.
Public broadcaster NHK reported the Supreme Court upheld a lower court death sentence on Masumi Hayashi, 47, for the crime that took place in the western Japanese city of Wakayama.
The Supreme Court called the crime "cruel and despicable," NHK added.
Prosecutors charged Hayashi became enraged after being shunned by her neighbors and put arsenic in the curry when she was alone in the garage where it was being prepared, Japanese media said.
Hayashi has denied being involved in the deaths in recent interviews with several domestic media outlets.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090421/od_nm/...an_murder_curry
The incident shocked Japan, where crime rates are relatively low and mass killings extremely rare.
Public broadcaster NHK reported the Supreme Court upheld a lower court death sentence on Masumi Hayashi, 47, for the crime that took place in the western Japanese city of Wakayama.
The Supreme Court called the crime "cruel and despicable," NHK added.
Prosecutors charged Hayashi became enraged after being shunned by her neighbors and put arsenic in the curry when she was alone in the garage where it was being prepared, Japanese media said.
Hayashi has denied being involved in the deaths in recent interviews with several domestic media outlets.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090421/od_nm/...an_murder_curry
Friday, April 17, 2009
Needle removed from bum - after 31 years
Source: Ananova
A Chinese pensioner can finally sit in comfort after doctors removed a broken syringe needle which had been stuck in his bottom for 31 years.
Lao Du, 55, of Zhengzhou, said the needle was left in his rear by an 'amateurish' doctor in 1978, reports the Zhongyuan Network.
"I got a cold and went to see an amateurish doctor in my hometown village, but the needle broke off once it pierced my bum," he said.
"I was sent to a provincial hospital immediately. After being hospitalised for nine days, doctors checked me but failed to find the broken needle."
Lao Du said he always believed the broken needle was still in his bottom and four or five years ago he began to feel sharp pains regularly in his rear.
"Even walking has become a suffering to me," he said.
"I sought help from too many hospitals but none of them dared to do the surgery for me as they are not quite sure if they can find a tiny broken needle from 31 years ago."
Du tried his luck one last time at the Zhengzhou People's Hospital where doctors agreed to try to find the broken needle.
Chief surgeon Fu Konglong, who finally found the needle tip after three hours of surgery, said: "It was very detailed work. We had to look for it in every muscle fibre."
A Chinese pensioner can finally sit in comfort after doctors removed a broken syringe needle which had been stuck in his bottom for 31 years.
Lao Du, 55, of Zhengzhou, said the needle was left in his rear by an 'amateurish' doctor in 1978, reports the Zhongyuan Network.
"I got a cold and went to see an amateurish doctor in my hometown village, but the needle broke off once it pierced my bum," he said.
"I was sent to a provincial hospital immediately. After being hospitalised for nine days, doctors checked me but failed to find the broken needle."
Lao Du said he always believed the broken needle was still in his bottom and four or five years ago he began to feel sharp pains regularly in his rear.
"Even walking has become a suffering to me," he said.
"I sought help from too many hospitals but none of them dared to do the surgery for me as they are not quite sure if they can find a tiny broken needle from 31 years ago."
Du tried his luck one last time at the Zhengzhou People's Hospital where doctors agreed to try to find the broken needle.
Chief surgeon Fu Konglong, who finally found the needle tip after three hours of surgery, said: "It was very detailed work. We had to look for it in every muscle fibre."
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