Nintendo chief Nintendead

Hiroshi Yamauchi, who built Nintendo from a small playing-card company into a global video-gaming empire before buying the Seattle Mariners, has died in Japan at the age of 85. Yamauchi took over the company from his ailing grandfather as a university student in 1949 and ran it until 2002 - a remarkable span of 53 years. He guided Nintendo from its pre-electronic days as a maker of children's games through its emergence as the creator of hugely popular video-gaming platforms such as the Nintendo Entertainment System, the Game Boy, hit games such as "Donkey Kong", and iconic characters such as Mario, the mustachioed Italian plumber. And speaking of plumbers, a plumber and his heating firm face five charges including manslaughter after the death of a woman from acute carbon-monoxide poisoning in the bedroom of an Irish hotel. Richard Davis of Ballygarvan, County Cork is charged with manslaughter over the death of Miriam Reidy who was discovered unconscious in the Trident Hotel in Kinsale, County Cork on January 9 2011. Reidy, a Tralee based bank worker originally from Ballyhahill, County Limerick, was in Kinsale attending a hen party for a cousin that weekend. A Cork coroner’s inquest into her death heard that, when she was discovered in Room 113, she had a 57pc blood saturation rate for carbon-monoxide, far into the fatal range which extends from 40pc-50pc. As a result, Davis is charged with the manslaughter of Ms Reidy. As a director of Davis Heating and Plumbing Contractors Ltd, he also faces two further charges brought under the Safety, Health, and Welfare at Work Act. The charges allege that, around January 4 2011, he failed to properly manage the conversion of a Worcester Bosch Greenstar boiler at the Trident Hotel for use with liquid petroleum gas, meaning that "individuals at their place of work were exposed to risks to their safety, health, and welfare" and that, as a result, Ms Reidy suffered injury and died. Two fresh charges were brought against Davis Heating and Plumbing Contractors Ltd of Unit 9, Portside, Marina Commercial Park, Centre Park Road, Cork. These are similar to other two Safety, Health, and Welfare at Work Act charges brought against Davis as a director of the same firm. This is why tradespeople need to be more on to it as far as managing risks on the job goes. Had said conversion to LPG been handled better, then there wouldn't have been so much carbon monoxide leaking into the rooms and maybe Reidy would still be alive today. Also, Davis wouldn't have such a pile of charges to deal with.