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Former Cruise Worker Reveals What Happens When Someone Dies On A Cruise Ship

Former Cruise Worker Reveals What Happens When Someone Dies On A Cruise Ship

Published by Sam Flores

There are more than 300 cruise ships operating worldwide and on average, a cruise ship can host around 3,000 passengers. With these kinds of numbers in mind, it’s perhaps not surprising to learn that around 200 people die on cruises every year. There’s no good way to go, but maybe the holiday of a lifetime is a decent last hurrah? What happens next, though? Is the body immediately shipped back to the person’s homeland? Is there a morgue on board? What happens when somebody dies on a cruise ship According to the Maritime Injury Guide, there are quite a few steps that crew must follow if a passenger dies on board.  First, port authorities must be notified and the medical staff on board immediately examine the body. The rest of the staff assigned need to look after the other passengers and loved ones of the deceased person.  All of this happens under the special code that’s widely used on cruise ships to alert that somebody’s died. This is called “Operation Rising Star”. The body is then moved …

Pro-Palestine worker who sued Heathrow for discrimination gets MoJ job

Pro-Palestine worker who sued Heathrow for discrimination gets MoJ job

Published by Sam Flores

Zara Saiyed accused Heathrow of being ‘complicit in the killing of Palestinian babies’ A former Heathrow security officer who tried to sue for discrimination after being told to take off her Palestine-flag badge has been given an internship at HM Courts and Tribunals Service. Zara Saiyed, an aspiring lawyer, launched legal action against Britain’s largest airport after she was asked to remove the flag pinned to her staff lanyard, claiming it was equivalent to being told to take off a hijab. The case was thrown out in June after an employment tribunal found Ms Saiyed was “prone to hyperbole” and had become “swept along with her own inaccurate narrative”. Just weeks later, Ms Saiyed has said she has begun a three-month internship with HM Courts and Tribunals Service at the Ministry of Justice. In a post on LinkedIn, she said her attempt to “seek justice” in the workplace had pushed her towards “something greater”, adding: “Looking back, it’s incredible to see how much life can change in just one year. “What once felt like the …

Palestinian aid worker who organized World Cup screenings killed in Israeli strike : NPR

Palestinian aid worker who organized World Cup screenings killed in Israeli strike : NPR

Published by Sam Flores

Palestinians are mourning Mohammed al-Wahidi, a beloved aid worker in Gaza. He was killed by as Israeli airstrike while en route to a World Cup screening which he organized. Transcript DON GONYEA, HOST: The World Cup is heading into its final stretch. In war-torn Gaza, thousands of people have found a way to watch the tournament in the past weeks, and they’ve been rooting for one team in particular, Egypt. Last Tuesday, Egypt faced the champion of the last World Cup, Argentina. But even amid that night’s excitement for that match, tragedy was close at hand. NPR’s Anas Baba reports. (SOUNDBITE OF DRUMS) UNIDENTIFIED PEOPLE: (Chanting) Masr. (SOUNDBITE OF DRUMS) UNIDENTIFIED PEOPLE: (Chanting) Masr. (SOUNDBITE OF DRUMS) ANAS BABA, BYLINE: When Egypt won a place in the top 16 team teams in the World Cup, Egyptian coach Hossam Hassan celebrated by raising the Palestinian flag. People in Gaza were already deeply supportive of Egypt’s team, and they saw themselves in that moment on the world’s biggest sporting stage. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) AHMED HIJAZI: I …

Exclusive: Reform Candidate Admitted Brexit 'Exacerbated' UK Worker Shortage

Exclusive: Reform Candidate Admitted Brexit 'Exacerbated' UK Worker Shortage

Published by Sam Flores

Sian Astley Reform UK’s candidate for the Greater Manchester mayoral race admitted Brexit “exacerbated” shortages in tradespeople, HuffPost UK can reveal. Sian Astley made the comments on finance website Love Money in 2019. Despite voting Leave in the 2016 EU referendum, she wrote: “There’s a massive shortage of skilled builders and tradespeople in the UK and that’ll be exacerbated post-Brexit”. The Reform councillor’s comments emerged as she prepares to take on Labour’s Bev Craig in the mayoral by-election on July 30. In separate comments on X in 2018, she defended her decision to back Brexit. She said: “I couldn’t give a rats ass if people don’t like that I voted Out. Already ghosted by politico bullies & virtue signalling ‘friends’, viewed as not on the ‘right side’.” Reform UK has been approached for comment. Astley is hoping to replace Andy Burnham as Greater Manchester mayor after he won the Makerfield by-election last month. Labour’s Bev Craig is currently the frontrunner to replace him in the July 30 poll. A June survey carried out by FocalData for campaign …

Man dies of heart disease in Woodlands flat after release from jail for killing temple worker: Coroner

Man dies of heart disease in Woodlands flat after release from jail for killing temple worker: Coroner

Published by Sam Flores

SINGAPORE: A man who killed a temple assistant 10 years ago was released from jail on remission, but died of heart disease alone in his rental flat. Loh Suan Lit, 56, died just a few days before his 57th birthday in a rental flat in Woodlands on Jan 6 this year. A coroner’s court on Wednesday (Jul 8) found the death to be from natural causes, with no foul play involved. Loh had been sentenced to 14 years’ jail and six strokes of the cane in 2018 for culpable homicide not amounting to murder and housebreaking by night. In 2016, he had bludgeoned a 53-year-old man at a Chinese temple on Teck Whye Lane in Choa Chu Kang, because the latter was trying to stop him in the act of stealing gold chains and donations. The victim suffered 93 external injuries – which appeared to be inflicted with a hammer – including a fractured skull and a burst eyeball, reports stated at the time. Loh had numerous past convictions dating back to the 1980s. RELEASE …

Suspected shoplifters attack supermarket security guard and worker in London

Suspected shoplifters attack supermarket security guard and worker in London

Published by Sam Flores

Video footage shows the moment a group of suspected shoplifters allegedly assaulted a security guard and a store worker after a suspect was detained at a supermarket in Finsbury Park, north London, England.The incident unfolded at around 9pm on June 9, when two attackers were seen repeatedly punching a worker near the store entrance before the security guard intervened and was also targeted as the group fled.Police said both employees suffered minor injuries and were treated at the scene, while officers continue efforts to identify those involved. No arrests have been made. Source link

Worker bees help choose the next queen in bumble bee colonies

Worker bees help choose the next queen in bumble bee colonies

Published by Jenni Sidey

A baby bumble bee can end up on one of two very different paths. It can grow into a small worker that never reproduces, or become a large future queen built to survive winter and start a colony of her own. New research suggests that split is not dictated mainly by the queen. Instead, it is dictated by the workers doing the feeding. In Bombus impatiens, a common North American bumble bee, Penn State researchers found that worker bees help determine larval fate by passing along juvenile hormone in the food they make from nectar and pollen. In particular, larvae that received enough of that hormone during a narrow window late in development were far more likely to become queens. The finding shifts the picture of colony life. Rather than a top-down social order controlled by a single monarch, the study points to a more distributed system. In this system, caregivers can shape the colony’s future. “Since all these females share the same DNA, it’s a striking example of how the same genotype can produce …