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| Topic Started: Apr 12 2018, 08:40 AM (518 Views) | |
| Lady Wolf | Apr 12 2018, 08:40 AM Post #1 |
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Mummified monkey found in century-old department store in Minnesota FOX News Amy Lieu 2 hrs ago © Provided by Fox News Crews found a mummified monkey last week in an air duct on the seventh floor of Dayton's store in Minneapolis. Crews working in a historic department store building in downtown Minneapolis made an unexpected discovery recently -- the mummified remains of a monkey. Demo worker Adam Peterson submitted a photo to the “Old Minneapolis” Facebook page, a site dedicated to curating historic images of the Minnesota city. The page then posted the photo Sunday. The monkey was found last week in an air duct on the seventh floor of the 116-year-old Dayton's building. The Facebook post said the "long-deceased" monkey "revealed itself in a ceiling during the renovation." Cailin Rogers is a spokeswoman for the Dayton's Project, in which the old store is being converted into an office, retail and restaurant complex. She said developers don't know where the monkey came from or how it ended up in the air duct. “We continue to find pieces of history in the Dayton’s Project as we redevelop the building,” Rogers said in an email to the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal. “Unfortunately this was one of the recent discoveries. We don’t know the story or origin behind this, but we have been working with local museums to learn more and find homes for artifacts like this.” Steven Laboe, who commented on the Facebook post of the photo, said he used to work in the building in the early 2000s and was told by a longtime building worker that a monkey had escaped from the eighth floor pet store in the 1960s, the Business Journal reported. Staff reportedly determined that the monkey escaped into the air conditioning ductwork -- they later discovered an odor. The monkey was apparently caught in an exhaust fan, which may explain a cut seen in the animal’s abdomen. "If you look at the photo,” Alan Freed, one of the site's co-administrators, reportedly said, “there is a definite injury to the body. There is a cut to the body that isn't natural." Another commenter posted a Dayton’s ad from 1963 of an exotic pet sale, which included two kinds of monkeys, Fox 9 Minneapolis reported. The “Pet-O-Rama” decades ago was touted in a newspaper ad as being “a menagerie of delightful pets from all over the world!” the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported. "They are finding so many interesting things as they get into the bones of that building, but who would ever have thought you would come across a dead monkey," Freed said, according to Fox 9. The Dayton's project is scheduled to open to the public next summer, the report said. The office and retail complex will have a food hall in the basement. The Associated Press contributed to this report. Baby born four years after parents' death BBC News 6 hrs ago © Science Photo Library The fertilised eggs had been frozen for years A baby has been born in China to a surrogate mother four years after his parents died in a car crash, Chinese media reported. The couple, who died in 2013, had frozen several embryos hoping to have a child through IVF. After the accident, their parents fought a protracted legal battle to be allowed to use the embryos. The boy was born in December to a surrogate from Laos and The Beijing News first reported the case this week. The newspaper explained how the lack of precedent for a case of this kind had forced the deceased couple's parents through a legal minefield before the surrogacy could proceed. No precedent At the time of the accident, the embryos were stored safely in a Nanjing hospital, frozen at minus 196 degrees in a liquid nitrogen tank. A court battle gave the four grandparents-to-be the right over the fertilised eggs. There was no precedent as to whether they could inherit their children's frozen embryos, according to reports. They were eventually granted the embryos, but it wasn't long until the next problem occurred. The embryos could only be taken from the Nanjing hospital if there was proof that another hospital would store them. But given the legal uncertainty around untransplanted embryos, it was hard to find another medical institution in China willing to get involved. And with surrogacy illegal in China, the only realistic option was to look beyond the country's borders. Proving paternity and nationality Eventually, the future grandparents worked with a surrogacy agency and decided on Laos, where commercial surrogacy was legal. As no airline was willing to accept a thermos-sized bottle of liquid nitrogen, the precious cargo had to be transported by car. In Laos, the embryo was implanted into the womb of the surrogate mother and in December 2017 the boy was born. Citizenship of the child, named Tiantian, was another problem though and so he was born not in Laos but in China - with the surrogate travelling there on a simple tourist visa. With no parents left to prove paternity, all four grandparents had to give blood and take DNA tests to establish that the baby was indeed their grandson and that both parents had been Chinese nationals. A pediatrician in north Texas was suspended from his practice following months of bizarre and dangerous behavior. The Texas Medical Board suspended Dr. Kurt Pflieger after he allegedly appeared at work last week crying and wearing pajamas. Pflieger, who has been licensed in Texas for more than 20 years, displayed illegal behavior for months, medical board documents revealed. A report by the Texas Medical Board said that between January and April, Pfieger “engaged in a pattern of impaired practice at Rockwall Pediatrics.” In January, staff reportedly noticed the doctor appeared to be distracted and preoccupied. Pfieger allegedly failed to complete or submit electronic prescriptions, and issued prescriptions by mistake. He crossed “physician patient boundaries” when he “obsessively” shared personal photos, stories and information with patients, staff and drug representatives. During an incident in February, Pfieger was said to be rough-housing with a 2-year-old. The doctor attempted to throw the toddler onto his shoulder but missed and dropped the child on the ground, causing the boy to hit his head on the floor. The following day, staff members said they heard Pfieger yell “Satan!” while meeting with two patients. The report said staff observed Pfieger to be in a “manic state” during the interaction. The doctor also reportedly ignored a cardiac patient during a stress test, instead speaking with the patient’s mother about a vacation he had gone on. Pfieger was observed coming in late to work and had slurred speech on occasion. The doctor also acted inappropriately with staff, the report said. He was seen slapping a subordinate on the butt, kissing another on her face without her consent and asking another staffer if “she were as good in bed as his fiancée.” Staff reported that the doctor arrived at work three days in a row wearing the same sweatpants and red shirt “with wild, unkept hair.” On April 5, Pfieger came to work crying and wearing his pajamas. The Texas Medical Board temporarily suspended Pfieger on April 6. “I’m glad that he’s getting a mandatory break, for sure,” Leslie Cook, a mother exiting the practice on Tuesday told KTVT-TV. “And being the mother of a baby that I love so much…I would want him to see a doctor that’s well rested, happy and clear-headed.” Ok for story 1 that's just strange but I can see how it happened. For story 2 man that is some serious baby rabies to go through all that for a grandchild and story 3 why the hell did it take MONTHS of this behavrior to get him suspended. |
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| greenbean | Apr 12 2018, 09:05 AM Post #2 |
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Aww, that poor monkey. The Chinese one is bizarre, they really wanted that grandchild. I agree about the third one, the drug mistakes alone should have been enough to fire him.
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| Kittycorner | Apr 12 2018, 10:04 AM Post #3 |
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That poor monkey.I'm amazed at the lengths those grandparents went to. I hope they're rational people for the kid's sake because those lengths suggest otherwise. |
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| artisticlicense | Apr 12 2018, 11:10 AM Post #4 |
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I would guess the Chinese couple who died were both the only child in their families, leaving both sets of grandparents with no younger generation in their families. So I can understand why they turned to this extreme method. Lots of kids are raised by grandparents for a variety of reasons, and turn out in a vaiety of ways. I just hope the grandparents continue to have a strong, respectful relationship with each other and don't start to battle over custody. |
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| Figment | Apr 12 2018, 02:17 PM Post #5 |
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sounds like the doctor was having a break down ad it needed to be addressed before that child was hurt. |
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The Chinese one is bizarre, they really wanted that grandchild. I agree about the third one, the drug mistakes alone should have been enough to fire him.
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