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A former Disney/Pixar and Dreamworks animator was sentenced to 25 years in a French prison on sex trafficking, child rape, and child pornography charges for availing himself of websites through which he remotely directed the sexual assault of children as young as two years old for his own amusement. French newspaper Le Monde reported that 59-year-old Bolhem Bouchib, whose credits include work on Lilo & Stitch, both Incredibles films, Ratatouille, and last year’s Elemental, was found guilty of paying Filipino women to rape and abuse Filipino girls averaging between the ages of five and 10 for him to view on...

A Black man who allegedly punched a deputy and had a handgun was shot and killed by deputies Monday afternoon in the unincorporated Westmont area near South Los Angeles. .....

To extract hydrogen from natural compounds such as water, methane, or coal requires very large inputs of energy. Most commonly, hydrogen is produced from methane gas using heat and steam, or by electrolysis of water using large quantities of electricity. Hydrogen can be used to power rockets, cars, and engines of all types. However, the energy used to produce the hydrogen can never be fully recovered from the energy in the hydrogen. It is thus not a source of energy. It is merely a storehouse for energy – a battery.