Eleven years after Nancy Kissel bludgeoned her banker husband to death in their luxury Hong Kong apartment, the American expatriate says from a maximum security prison she has no regrets about her life. "I can't spend my time explaining the unexplainable. I'd rather try to seek a peaceful heart," Kissel, 50, said when asked if she would have done anything differently. "I don't know how to undo something I never understood." Speaking through an intercom from behind metal bars, the mother-of-three broke into tears, and at one point into song, as she sat for her first media interviews just 20 miles from her former $20,000-a-month, ocean-view apartment. Convicted by two Hong Kong juries for the murder of her husband, she was told by the city's top court in April that she had exhausted all appeal avenues. Her voice was at times steady and deliberate, at times quivering and incomprehensible. The murder of her husband Robert Kissel revealed a dysfunctional side to the lives of Hong Kong's … [Read more...] about Hong Kong’s ‘milkshake murderer’ has no regrets as death of banker husband is recalled
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Boomer sex with dementia foreshadowed in nursing home
Mark Carter, left, and Ellen Carter, right, married residents of the Hebrew Home at Riverdale, hold hands while listening to a piano concert. The 870-resident home has had a written policy on sexual expression since 1995. Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg At 8:30 p.m. on Christmas Day 2009, nurse Tiffany Gourley was called to a room at the Windmill Manor nursing home in Coralville, Iowa. She found a 78-year-old male resident who had just had intercourse with an 87-year-old woman. The man, a former college professor, was divorced. The woman, a retired secretary, was married. Both had dementia. What followed illustrates one of the most complex and unexamined issues facing elderly care facilities as the Baby Boom generation enters old age: How to determine if residents with dementia have the mental capacity to consent to sex. The Windmill Manor incident and its lengthy aftermath also show that nursing homes, regulators and families are not prepared to deal with that question. … [Read more...] about Boomer sex with dementia foreshadowed in nursing home
Madoff’s eldest son hangs himself in NYC apartment
Every day for two years, he carried the toxic burden of a name that meant fraud to the world. On Saturday, the eldest son of disgraced financier Bernard Madoff hanged himself in his Manhattan apartment, another casualty in the saga that sent his father to prison and swindled thousands of their life savings. On the second anniversary of the day his father was arrested in the worst investment fraud in American history, Mark Madoff, 46, was found dead in the living room of his SoHo loft. He was hanging from a black dog leash while his 2-year-old son slept nearby. People close to him said he was despondent over press coverage of his father's case, an ongoing criminal investigation of Madoff family members in the multibillion-dollar scheme and his struggle to rebuild his life. The intense scrutiny approaching the anniversary "became too much for him," said a person who had recent contact with him, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the case. Mark Madoff's wife, … [Read more...] about Madoff’s eldest son hangs himself in NYC apartment
‘Divorce parties’ take off in America
A Califorinia craze has become a post-marriage bargain shop for jewellery and chic label clothes. Divorce is never easy. Even in the privileged circles of southern California it is a traumatic and costly experience. There are lawyers to pay, prenuptial agreements to regret and houses to sell as once comfortable lives prepare to undergo a transformation. That is where Jill Alexander steps in. Alexander, 37, has sparked a craze for "divorce parties" among well-heeled divorcees who are looking to offload the baggage of their married lives. Her new company, the Divorcee Sale, organises events where newly divorced women can sell their clothes, jewellery and handbags at bargain prices. Held in hotel ballrooms and chic event spaces across the Los Angeles area, the sales have become a huge smash. "I just knew it would work. Divorce is pretty common these days and people are looking to offload their stuff," Alexander told the Observer. She sees huge potential for the Divorcee Sale across … [Read more...] about ‘Divorce parties’ take off in America
Hanoi inaugurates biggest flyover
Hanoi inaugurates biggest flyover The flyover at the Nguyen Chi Thanh-Kim Ma intersection, one of the most crowded streets in Hanoi, was open to traffic on October 5, helping reduce traffic jams in the route from the inner city to the west. The four-lane steel frame flyover, which is 484m in length and 16m in width, has a span of 60m, making it the largest of the kind so far in Ha Noi . It was completed after eight months of construction, one month ahead of schedule. This is one project under the city's target programme to reduce traffic jams and ensure urban order for the 2012-2015 period. At the inauguration ceremony, Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai praised efforts of workers, contractors and Hanoi authorities in implementing the project, the seventh of its kind in the city, which is of great importance to improve traffic in the western area of the city. Hanoi also plans to complete several key transport projects within this year and next year, including the O Cho … [Read more...] about Hanoi inaugurates biggest flyover