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28 March 2024

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The toilet keeper shows off its prowess by saving penalties from Japanese star striker Tatsuhiko 'Dragon' Kubo.

 

The horror movie diet - lose a chocolate bar per film

US: According to the findings of a new research, viewers of horror movies can burn off calories almost equal to a chocolate bar.

It is great news for people who are desperate to lose some extra weight. 90-minute of adrenaline-pumping terror can use up as much as 113 calories, close to the amount burned during a half-hour walk, says Orange.co.uk.

The 1980 psychological thriller 'The Shining' is said to be weight-watchers' favourite. The average viewer of this film ends up losing about 184 calories. Jaws was ranked second with viewers burning about 161 calories, and The Exorcist was ranked third with 158 calories.

According to researchers, the films which store surprises and make the viewers jump up in terror help them burn the best calories.

The website quoted a professor of the University of Westminster as quoting: "As the pulse quickens and blood pumps around the body faster, the body experiences a surge in adrenaline.

"It is this release of fast acting adrenaline, produced during short bursts of intense stress (or in this case, brought on by fear), which is known to lower the appetite, increase the Basal Metabolic Rate and ultimately burn a higher level of calories."

 

Boy 10, shoots father to death

Nearly two years after a neo-Nazi leader was gunned down at point-blank while sleeping on his sofa, his son -- who was 10 at the time of the killing -- is going on trial for murder.

Prosecutors want a judge hearing opening statements Tuesday to rule after the proceedings that the boy, now 12, murdered Jeff Hall, an out-of-work plumber who as regional leader of the National Socialist Movement headed rallies.

The boy told police he pulled a .357-Magnum from a closet and aimed it at Hall's ear and pulled the trigger before running upstairs and hiding the weapon, according to court papers.

"He decided, as he put it, it was time to end the father-son thing," said Michael Soccio, chief deputy district attorney. "This child started at five years old being expelled from school for violence. ... His violence started way before his dad ever joined any Nazi party."

Soccio, citing a history of violent behavior including choking a teacher with a telephone cord, wants to keep him locked up as long as possible. If held responsible, the boy would become the youngest person currently in the custody of the state's corrections department.

The boy's public defender, Matthew Hardy, did not immediately return calls for comment.

Hardy told the New York Times his client has neurological and psychological problems and was exposed to neo-Nazi "conditioning" at home.

"He's been conditioned to violence," Hardy told the newspaper. "You have to ask yourself: Did this kid really know that this act was wrong based on all those things?"

The Associated Press is not identifying the boy -- who is not charged as an adult -- because of his age.

Hall, 32, who said he believed in a white breakaway nation, ran for a seat on the local water board in 2010 in a move that disturbed many residents in the recession-battered suburbs southeast of Los Angeles.

Hall had previously taken the boy -- his oldest of five children -- on a US-Mexico border patrol trip and showed him how to use a gun, according to papers filed by police against the boy's stepmother alleging child endangerment and criminal storage of a gun.

Last year, the boy told investigators he went downstairs and shot his father before returning upstairs and hiding the gun under his bed, according to court documents. He told authorities he thought his father was going to leave his stepmother, and he didn't want the family to split up, Soccio said.

The boy's stepmother told authorities that Hall had hit, kicked and yelled at his son for being too loud or getting in the way. Hall and the boy's biological mother had previously slugged through a divorce and custody dispute in which each had accused the other of child abuse.

Kathleen M. Heide, a professor at the University of South Florida in Tampa who wrote "Why Kids Kill Parents," said children 10 and under rarely kill their parents and that only 16 such cases were documented between 1996 and 2007. Heide also said parenting and home life would undoubtedly play a role in the case.

"It would be inaccurate to say who the child's parents are is superfluous," she said. "That is going to have an effect on how the child grows up, on the values that child learns, on problem solving abilities, so all of that is relevant."

If a judge finds the boy murdered Hall, he could be held in state custody until he is 23 years old, said Bill Sessa, spokesman for California's Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

The state currently houses fewer than 900 juveniles.

"We don't have anybody that young," Sessa said. "We have had 12-year-olds in the past, but it's rare." (AP)


Woman to watch daughter's rapist and killer die

NEW YORK: Becky O'Connell left her South Dakota home on a simple errand: to go to the store for sugar so she could make lemonade.
 
When the 9-year-old didn't return that day in 1990, panic gripped Sioux Falls. Parents kept their children indoors until the mystery could be solved.
 
And within hours, it was - with a gruesome outcome: Becky had been kidnapped, raped and stabbed to death.
 
Becky's killer, 60-year-old Donald Moeller, is set to die Tuesday night by lethal injection in South Dakota.
 
Her mother, Tina Curl, has been steadfast in her wish to watch him die, raising money so she could make the 1,400-mile trip from her home in New York.
 
She says Moeller watched her daughter take her last breath, and she wants to watch him take his.

 

Friend plans $50K kidnapping, baby dies

US: A family friend hoped to hold a baby girl hostage to get $50,000 from her software-engineer parents but instead killed her and her grandmother in a botched kidnapping, according to police in a Philadelphia suburb.
 
Raghunandan "Raghu" Yandamuri, 26, knew the infant's parents both had good jobs, and he crafted a ransom note threatening to kill their daughter if they did not leave the money at a local supermarket, police said in an affidavit filed Friday.
 
"It's up to you to decide, do you want your 1-year-old or five months of your income?" the lengthy, typed note said.
 
The plot unraveled when he dropped the baby as he juggled her and a kitchen knife and struggled with her paternal grandmother, who was watching 10-month-old Saanvi Venna on Monday during a six-month visit from India, the affidavit said.
 
The grandmother, 61-year-old Satyavathi Venna, was fatally stabbed and suffered defensive wounds. The suspect told police he put a handkerchief in the baby's mouth to quiet her, then wrapped a towel around her head and put her in a suitcase when he left the sixth-floor apartment, according to the affidavit.
 
The ransom note called the parents by their family nicknames, leading police to focus on friends and acquaintances, Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Ferman said. The parents were never again contacted for money as the search for the missing infant stretched through the week.
 
"We had been hopeful that Saanvi was still alive," Ferman said Friday. "Tragically, that is not the case."
 
Authorities instead found the infant in a bloody white dress beneath a bench near the sauna of the fitness center at the sprawling apartment complex where Yandamuri and the victims lived.
 
Yandamuri had been interviewed Thursday as police canvassed the family's friends. He told police that he had printed nearly 200 missing-child posters at work, distributed them and attended a vigil for the baby. But he later detailed the botched crime to police and said he had stolen jewelry, some of which he threw in the nearby Schuylkill River, the affidavit said.
 
A throng of people jeered at him, shouting "Hang him!" and other taunts, as he was led into court Friday afternoon in a bulletproof vest.
 
Yandamuri was being held without bail on two counts of murder, kidnapping, robbery and other charges pending a preliminary hearing set next week. He does not have a lawyer and did not enter a plea at a brief arraignment Friday. He told a judge he is not a U.S. citizen and was given time to make a private call to the Indian consulate.
 
The baby's father, Venkata Konda Siva Venna, and mother, Chenchu Latha Punuru, moved to the United States from India in February 2007 and moved into the apartment in June. Satyavathi Venna arrived from India in July and was scheduled to return home in January.
 
She opened the door to Yandamuri on Monday morning to see he was armed with a kitchen knife, authorities said. She retreated to the kitchen, while he picked up the baby from the couch, the affidavit said. (AP)