(CFD.net.au – Contract for Difference, Share, Forex, ETFs, Commodities Traders) – A pilot who had been missing for three days has been found dead at a crash site in south-west New South Wales.

The ultralight plane took off from Renmark, in South Australia’s Riverland, on Monday but failed to arrive at Hay that afternoon.

The disappearance was not reported until about 6:00pm (AEDT) yesterday, when a concerned friend contacted the Australian Maritime Safety Authority.

The authority launched a large-scale search-and-rescue operation this morning, after a plane conducted a preliminary search last night.

Searchers found the man’s body among the wreckage of the plane about 37 kilometres west of Hay, near the Sturt Highway, shortly after 11:00am (AEDT).

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau and Recreational Aviation Australia have been notified and police will prepare a report for the coroner.

Source: Pilot found dead, three days on

CLEVELAND [WMAT News]–The Cuyahoga County Coroner’s office is conducting the gruesome task of trying to identify the remains of 11 people taken from a home on Imperial Avenue on Cleveland’s East side.

The first victim was identified Wednesday as Tonia Carmichael, a DNA test from Carmichael’s mother confirmed the identity. She has been missing for the last year.

Dr. Miller says there are 11 victims so far, all of whom are African-American women. Ten bodies and one partial skeleton. Six were in the house and five in the back yard. Dr. Miller says none was there for less than a few weeks, and it’s hard to determine how long some may have been there. Some could have been there since Sowell was released from prison in 2005.

Dr. Miller said that seven of the victims appear to have been strangled with what appeared to be a rope, tie, or an electrical cord.

“There is still a lot of work that needs to be done and a lot of unanswered questions that need to be addressed. Until the family of the victims get the closure they seek and ultimately the justice they deserve, this case will continue to be our focus. My thoughts, prayers and deepest condolences go out to the Carmichael family, friends and relatives,” said Mayor Frank G. Jackson.

Police will execute a warrant to take DNA from Sowell which will be entered into the national CODIS database. Sowell’s DNA will be compared against known suspect DNA profiles to determine whether or not he is a suspect in any other criminal matter.

©2009 Westcom/WMAT News

(CFD.net.au – Contract for Difference, Share, Forex, ETFs, Commodities Traders) – WA Premier Colin Barnett has criticised a decision to grant refugee status to asylum seekers who survived a boat explosion off Ashmore Reef earlier this year.

Five asylum seekers from Afghanistan died when the boat they were on exploded after catching fire in April. Forty-two other Afghan men survived and have been held in detention since.

The coroner is investigating the deaths but the Immigration Minister Chris Evans says that doesn’t mean the men cannot be given asylum, and he has granted it.

Mr Barnett has told Fairfax Radio the decision should have been put off until after the coronial inquiry investigates allegations the fire was deliberately started by one of the asylum seekers.

“People died, it could be seen as murder,” he said.

“I think that full inquiry should be completed and certainly anyone who is implicated in that should not be given the right to stay in Australia.”

Earlier this month a Northern Territory Police investigation found at least one asylum seeker intentionally set fire to the boat before it exploded.

However, police have been unable to determine which passenger or passengers were involved, and no charges have been laid.

“The criminal investigation has revealed information that suggests that a person or persons had intended to set a fire on board the vessel,” NT Assistant Commissioner Mark McAdie said at the time.

“It is unknown whether the person or persons responsible for the fire intended to cause the explosion that resulted in the loss of five lives.”

Source: WA Premier slams asylum decision

Born and raised in Berks County, Charles Corbit will work hard and work smart to make sure the Prothonotary’s Office works for the tax payers of Berks County.  With two decades of private sector experience, Charles will update obsolete technology to reduce costs and ensure secure document filing.  Under his leadership, the Prothonotary’s Office will provide fast retrieval and quality service to all customers.  That’s better for Berks.

It time for someone with energy, leadership experience and computer knowledge to manage the important legal documents that are vital to the tax payers of Berks County.  We need change.  Charles will not spend his time decorating his office for the holidays nor will he be doing “political work” on taxpayer’s time.  Instead, he will be working hard for everyone in Berks County.

Serving the people of Berks County as our present Coroner, Dennis J. Hess has accomplished much in his first term.  By restoring professionalism and integrity to the Coroner’s Office, Dennis and his staff have earned the trust of the people of Berks County and built strong working relationships with all their constituents, including funeral homes, ambulance and fire companies, hospitals, law enforcement and the District Attorney’s Office.

Unlike the previous Coroner (Bybel), Dennis Hess has NOT incurred any costly lawsuits against the Coroner’s Office.

With 25 years of leadership experience at Med-Ed and FirstEnergy in finance, operations and administration, Carole can bring fresh thinking to the challenges that face the County and the Treasurer’s Office.  She will improve operations, increase efficiency and control costs through better use of technology and strengthening the departments commitment to customer service.  Carole has the knowledge, enthusiasm and commitment to work hard for the people of Berks County.

Carole Snyder will establish a policy of openness with all funds and operations, unlike the current Treasurer that refused an Internal Audit.  She will work to minimize the huge pension fund investment losses which must be made up from taxpayer dollars.  The current Treasurer (Nelson Long) oversaw two huge losses of pension funds in excess of $50 million in the past ten years.

VOTE FOR THESE DEMOCRATS ON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3rd AND PUT AN END TO ALL THE WASTE OF TAX PAYERS MONEY BY THE REPUBLICANS OVER THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS.

Vote straight Democratic Party.  We can not afford 4 more years of Republicans wasting our tax dollars.

(CFD.net.au – Contract for Difference, Share, Forex, ETFs, Commodities Traders) – Asylum seekers who survived a boat explosion off Ashmore Reef earlier this year will be granted refugee status in Australia.

The 42 Afghan men will be released into the community this week but it is believed the Federal Government will deport any of them who are subsequently convicted of serious charges over the incident.

The boat, known as SIEV 36, was carrying 47 asylum seekers and two Indonesian crew when it exploded while being escorted by the Australian Navy in April, leaving five people dead and injuring dozens more.

Earlier this month a Northern Territory Police investigation found at least one asylum seeker intentionally set fire to the boat before it exploded.

However, police have been unable to determine which passenger or passengers were involved, and no charges have been laid.

“The criminal investigation has revealed information that suggests that a person or persons had intended to set a fire on board the vessel,” NT Assistant Commissioner Mark McAdie said at the time.

“It is unknown whether the person or persons responsible for the fire intended to cause the explosion that resulted in the loss of five lives.”

He would not go into precise detail about how the fire started because it is the subject of a coronial inquiry due to be held in Darwin in January, 2010.

However, he said petrol from a bilge pump had been set alight and scientific evidence suggested that it was not an accident.

“It’s about the quantity of fuel that was involved. It’s simply unlikely that it could have occurred accidentally,” he said.

Immigration Minister Chris Evans says Northern Territory police were happy for the asylum seekers to be granted refugee status.

“It wasn’t appropriate to continue to have these men in detention, there’s no charges laid against any of them, and there may never be,” he said.

“The NT police weren’t suggesting anyone was likely to be charged, just that that possibility might arise if the coroner found evidence that they hadn’t uncovered.

“So there’s no impediment as far as the NT police were concerned to these men being granted refugee status.”

Refugee advocates say asylum seekers have said that Navy allowed passengers to smoke near leaking petrol drums before the fatal fire.

Source: Boat blast survivors get refugee status

In the corner of the county
coroner’s office, the walls sweat
beads of golden Corona while he dreams
of a non-comatose life in the tropics,
somewhere where his palms can sweat
not because of nerves, but because
it is hot and wet, and the button up t-shirts
are detailed with sunset shades
and silhouettes of palm trees.
He wants to be somewhere where the tits are free
to show some skin, where the showgirls
can peak out of bar windows and unfurl
their bras with streaking smirks
and stiff, suggestive brows.
He gets stiff just thinking about it

but he sniffs the autopsy stiffs
from his office and is sucked out of his
imagination, back to the officer’s station
answering phone calls about missing persons
and untagged sacks of guts with holes in them.
Many of the bodies that pass through
have full young heads of hair that had still
grown with opportunity, in youthful spurts
and he studies the features on their faces
for any emotion at all that could suggest a response
to an afterlife, where the boldest dream scenes come true
behind doors that line the walls of an unending hallway.

grief is always the same. a sunset sky pillowed with gray clouds, the light pushing through in a few places. always the shortness of breath and temper in the weeks after death. in the weeks death becomes permanent. the shadow against which life leans, darkening the light to bittersweetness.

the moment of impact occurs, orbits into the past, reoccurs and remembers itself. as if a vital organ is removed, a limb amputated, a man castrated, one color segregated from another; a form shattered by an arbitrary force.

. . .

sometimes the worlds eclipse, and the places where we met–to eat, to walk together, to talk about the listening, to laugh–make your presence so real. the corner with a bus stop bench where i saw you after work one day last june, and it was my turn to pay for lunch. i walk across the street from that corner five days a week now, because i still work there. it’s october of the same year and you’ve been dead for three and a half weeks.

when the pieces of the heart fall away, the underpinnings become visible. what kind of structure has built itself in that tender, enclosed space? what underlies the exterior, the living red that is designed to shatter and reinvent itself?

the doctor told me to expect either diarrhea or unstoppable tears the weekend after treatment. she said i was reliving the moment of impact, the instant i found out about your death, the experience of those seconds, the first hours in which it was confirmed, your name checked against the report made by the town’s coroner.

my lover and i gathered your eyeglasses, sneakers, phone and drove them to the coroner’s office to be joined with the rest of you there, in a fridge somewhere behind the generators at the back of the building. M., my lover, told me to try not to think about that, but the coroner said that your body was “unviewable”–it was easy, then, to know that you had been destroyed. by the impact. shattered to pieces by the force of a freeway car at six a.m., long before traffic slows to stop-and-go.

it was still dark when you left. by the time my alarm crowed at six, you were gone, your car out of sight where it had been parked outside. the front doors of the house were unlocked, the television on loud. you and your purse had disappeared. i thought you had driven home, not onto the freeway onramp a mile away, not pulled over and left your new car on the shoulder, not stood between the lanes without your shoes and glasses and waited for a fast-moving car, not stepped in front of it.

not died at twenty-three.

it is the places i remember being with you, the reality and gravity of your flesh, my spirit leaning against the vibrations of your voice, where i cross into the moments you were here. in the days after your death, i see myself where you were, waiting for death to claim you by force. using the car as a bullet, an actual gun became unnecessary. which parts of you remained after the first shattering? did the cells know to expect that sudden dispersion? did you feel the ones that followed? my cells imagine they are yours, over and over again, stretching themselves to recreate the moment you were taken away.

you told me you wore green on purpose that day, the day you had asked to meet again. our meeting turned to evening and you stayed the night, silent in the next room.

. . .

before retiring after midnight, i slice cucumbers for my swollen eyes, the bags of water that have collected beneath each one. unsightly patches of red mark the tears that scratched my face today, when remembrance of you became inescapable. any tasks i could complete, even if i could accomplish much in this halted state, cannot re-member those ruptured cells and limbs, cannot gather the blood that flowed away into a stain on a gasoline-streaked highway.

the clouds move, the light shifts as sunset nears dusk. gold shafts of sunlight break, and are broken by, the blanket of gray heading north. twilight paints colors that mirror dawn, marking the time of Maghreb prayer, and a new moon rises.

© 2009 tahminah zaman

Coroner Investigates Toronto Community Housing Corporation

By Brian Madigan LL.B.

The case under review is rather straightforward. An elderly gentleman was evicted from his bachelor apartment because he was behind in his rent.

The Toronto Housing Authority is the agency charged with the responsibility of looking after the poor and managing subsidized housing on behalf of the City.

Al Gosling was 82 years of age. He lived in subsidized housing for years. He didn’t have any family to help him out, so he fell somewhat behind in his paperwork.
You know how much bureaucrats love paperwork. Well, Al was not sending them any. So what did they do?

Very simple, they evicted him. He came home one day in June, and the locks were changed. He had nowhere to go, so he slept in the stairway. His food was in his apartment, so he went without, and grew tired and weary. He was taken to a homeless shelter, but he became gravely ill. He was 97 pounds.

Finally, Al was taken to the hospital in October. He was there for a few days, then he died.

What was the great piece of paper that led to Al’s death? It was a form that said he didn’t have any other sources of income. Therefore, he qualified for the subsidy.

Without that piece of paper the Toronto Community Housing Centre decided to fight. They wanted that piece of paper and he didn’t provide it. So, let’s take him to Court and evict him.

Fortunately, the Coroner believes that something went wrong here. Right now the Coroner is undertaking an investigation. Hopefully, this will lead to a decision to hold an inquest.

Yes, I do have a word of advice:

• Don’t get old
• Don’t get sick
• Don’t be poor

And, the number one thing to remember: fill out your paperwork. They don’t take any excuses!

Brian Madigan LL.B., Realtor is an author and commentator on real estate matters, Royal LePage Innovators Realty
905-796-8888
www.OntarioRealEstateSource.com

His eye waxed and waned as the cars drove past.

Car horns blared. Some impatient drivers began driving on the shoulder to get past the accident. Other cars followed, unaware or uncaring of the dead man in the road. I watched the tires pass us. The dead man stared out, unseeing. His eyes waxed and waned…waxed and waned…waxed and waned as the lights of the passing cars slid over his face. The road glittered like a pool of hundreds of constellations. It was beautiful. I remember wishing that he could see it.

The police arrived. Thankfully, they didn’t see me in my hiding place on the side of the road. I knew that if they had found me, they’d make a big deal about reuniting me with my parents. The last thing I wanted was to sit in an uncomfortable car for hours listening to old Korean disco while the police did their job.

The policemen placed flares everywhere and told everyone to stand back. As they waited for the coroner to arrive, a bright, blue tarp was laid over the hitchhiker’s body. It matched his bag. The crowd on the other side of the police tape stared at the tarp, as if expecting the dead man to rise up from beneath it. I turned over onto my back, no longer interested.

Susan Doman

If you’ve been following this blog, you know that we’ve been trying to locate the full transcript of the coroner’s jury inquest into the death of Kathleen Savio from May 1, 2004.

To date we’ve been able to share with you the pages containing the testimony of Herbert Hardy (pages 7-15). We’ve now located the first six pages of the transcript, in which Susan Doman (then Savio) testifies, and we’re pleased to be able to share them with you.

EXCERPT:

Q. Is there anything else you’d like to add, ma’am?

A. Yes. I just — it’s very difficult for my family because of my sister telling us all the time, and I can figure, everyone, everything — one that she has seen that if she would die, it may look like and accident, but it wasn’t. She just told me last week, and she was terrified of him. He always threatened her. He had her in the basement one time. He did, many, many things to her. He only wished for her to go away.
And it’s just very hard for me to accept that, what happened. His reactions after this were a laughing matter. Cleaning everything out, ready to get rid of the house. It’s very hard.

Sue Doman’s testimony is especially interesting at this time, as this Friday is the date of Drew Peterson’s next hearing in which the defense will be arguing against the constitutionality of the “hearsay law”.

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Patrick Swayze had a cowboy wake, home funeral!

It has been reported that Patrick Swayze had a  Home Funeral sometimes known as “Cowboy Wake” The home funeral is where the family cleans and dresses the loved one’s body.

Usually within a day or two after a death friends gather and the life is celebrated in the home. Then the burial or cremation occurs

Essentially this is how it was done before the Civil War.

The Family in the Dirty Dancing Stars case was very wise-THE FUNERAL WAS COMPLETED  BEFORE THE DEATH WAS REPORTED.  BEFORE the  CORONER| FUNERAL DIRECTOR ARRIVED! Yes before the Hollywood Elite knewit was all over.

This story APPEARS  to be Accurate. The whole Scenario  fits totally with the events that followed the Home Funeral of Patrick Swayze.

Source: evri .com

Funeral Industry|Funeral blog by Your Funeral Guy

Half moon specs sadly aren't the only thing Swayze and Dumbledore have in common

I checked twitter this morning and discovered that Patrick Swayze had finally succumbed to his pancreatic cancer. The poor bloke. His slow and painful death will doubtlessly be overshadowed by Michael Jackson’s, and perhaps that’s ok. What isn’t OK, however, is that when I typed Patrick Swayze into Google, the first thing that came up was a site called sikipedia. This site took me straight to a whole bunch of disgusting and tasteless jokes about Patrick Swayze. He’s barely cold for God’s sake!

I just want to say to anybody out there making jokes about Patrick Swayze – I think it’s outragous the way people are making fun of him when he died so recently. You wouldn’t be joking if it was someone in your family who’d been in so many shit movies, so have some respect people.

The debate on whether or not Swayze sped up his death by continuing to smoke is now underway. Personally I think it took guts to admit that quitting smoking would do nothing to save him. Fair play to the guy. Although perhaps smoking doesn’t make you cool in this case.

They may not put baby in the corner, but looks like they’ve sent you to the coroner Pat. RIP mate.

If a loved one dies at home on hospice care, the first call goes to the hospice organization. All hospice programs have registered nurses on call 24/7, and in most states specially certified nurses may officially pronounce the deaths of home hospice patients. Check with a local provider to make sure this is the case in your state.

It helps to have a funeral home already selected to call after pronouncement, even if you haven’t made funeral plans. The hospice nurse will call the funeral home of choice to take the body to their facility. Most mortuaries handle transportation of a body from the home in unmarked vans, not in a hearse.

While waiting for the mortuary, the nurse will offer to wash the body to the extent necessary or desired by the family, and remove catheters, IVs or medicated patches. The family can help with the washing if they wish.

Most state Board of Pharmacy rules prohibit hospice nurses from taking back leftover narcotics. The current procedure is for the nurse to tally up and destroy, with a family member as witness, any controlled substances the patient was taking, such as narcotics and sedatives. This is done by pouring the pills and liquids into a sealable plastic baggie, pouring cooking oil, vinegar, or bleach over them, and discarding the bag in the trash. “Flushing medications down the toilet is ‘out’ these days, to protect groundwater and river quality,” said Nancy Costea, a hospice nurse.

If a patient has had a recent fall with an injury that might have contributed to the death, such as a hip fracture, the nurse will have to call the Office of the Medical Investigator (OMI) or the coroner’s office. The investigator on duty will determine over the phone if they need to take the case. If so, OMI’s removal team will take the body to their facility. OMI is also called if there’s suspicion of abuse or neglect, or if circumstances point toward a drug overdose.

A word about Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) orders: People who go on hospice acknowledge that they are going to die. Under current Medicare regulations, hospice providers cannot require that a DNR document be signed and in place. However, most hospice programs strongly encourage taking that step. This means that no heroic measures will be taken to restart heartbeat or breathing when the patient starts to fail.

Family members should not call 911 when the end seems near. Even with a DNR order, once emergency medical services are called, a home death gets needlessly complicated. Keep the hospice phone number posted by or programmed into the phone, and make sure anyone staying with the patient is aware of the importance of calling for the hospice nurse, not 911.

Anyone have an experience with an at-home hospice death they’d like to share?

Regardez bien cette vidéo…et observez l’homme à la chemise blanche qui sort du véhicule du coroner! Étrange!!!

Est-ce bien Michael Jackson? A-t-il simulé sa mort afin qu’on le laisse tranquille? Qui connait la vérité sur sa situation? Une chose est certaine, un spécialiste à noté le numéro d’immatriculation du véhicule dans ce vidéo et c’est le même qui était au domicile de Jackson le jour où ils sont venus chercher le corps… Comme si ce n’était pas assez, j’ai reçu un lien d’un de mes amis qui démontre le corps de Michael Jackson qui bouge dans le sac du coroner lors de son transport en hélicoptère! Brrrrrrrrrr!!!

Vérité ou mensonge??? Vraiment étrange!!!

“Expected” deaths, which happen in settings such as hospitals, nursing homes or hospice settings, still manage to seem “unexpected.” Whether a death is a complete surprise or not, here are a few things that happen on the way to a funeral.

The first call in an “expected” death goes to the primary doctor or hospice provider for the deceased, to facilitate pronouncement. Emergency room doctors can also record pronouncement. After the time of death is officially recorded, the body can be moved and preparations made for final disposition of the body. The second call would be to a funeral director, if previous arrangements have been made. If arrangements aren’t already in place, a boatload of decisions will need to be made under duress.

Chances are, you’d be in the same boat with an “unexpected” death, such as an auto accident, suicide, homicide, when a person under the age of 18 dies or a body is discovered under mysterious circumstances. A police officer, coroner or medical investigator will make the pronouncement to the best of their ability given the circumstances.

By health code, a body has to be processed within 24 hours – before decomposition begins – in one of four ways: refrigerate, embalm, cremate, or bury. Embalming and refrigeration give the family a few more days with the body before cremation or burial, allowing distant relatives to travel for a funeral. Both Jews and Muslims are prohibited from embalming and those religions dictate burial within 24 to 72 hours.

The funeral director or the Office of the Medical Investigator prepares death certificates, with information completed by a medical certifier. You might be surprised at the information you need to supply about the deceased. In addition to their legal name, you need any AKAs (also known as), Social Security number, birth date and place, marital status at death, mother’s name prior to first marriage, military service discharge information, and more. If you’d like a full listing of information usually requested for a death certificate, drop me a line!