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Chinese gang arrested in raid on filthy sheep factory where carcasses 'were injected with polluted POND WATER to increase weight'
By SIMON TOMLINSON
Seven members of a Chinese gang have been arrested for allegedly injecting ? pond water into lamb meat to swell its weight and boost profits. The suspects slaughtered up to 100 sheep per day at an illegal warehouse and allegedly pumped up to 6kg of bacteria-ridden water into the dead animals, China Central Television (CCTV) reported.
The meat was then sold at markets, food stalls and restaurants in major cities such as Guangzhou and Foshan.
China has been hit by a number of food safety scandals, from deadly chemical-laced dairy products to recycled 'gutter oil' used for cooking. Last week, Wal-Mart Stores Inc, the world's largest retailer, apologised after a Chinese supplier of donkey meat snacks was found to have mixed fox meat into the product. Authorities raided the illegal lamb meat abattoir in Guangdong at the end of December, finding around 30 carcasses injected with filthy water, 335 live sheep, forged inspection stamps and equipment to inject water into the meat, the report showed.
Each sheep was pumped with up to six kilograms of water just after being slaughtered to add extra weight.
Close to 40 per cent of Chinese think food safety is a 'very big problem,' the Pew Research Centre said in a 2013 report. This has weighed on Chinese firms, from milk powder makers to meat producers, boosting international rivals. Late in December, China said it would tighten milk powder rules in a move to boost confidence in domestic producers and allay long-standing fears around food safety in its $12.4 billion infant formula market. KFC parent Yum Brands Inc, McDonald's Corp, French grocery chain Carrefour SA and other global firms have been caught up in food safety scares in China.
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Nasty Baker Sends Bride a ? -Shaped Cake, Tells Her to 'Eat ? '
By: Neetzan Zimmerman
A disgruntled baker took ? -flinging to a near-literal level when she retaliated against a client by providing her engagement party with a poo-shaped cake topped with the words "eat ? ."
Emma McDonald, owner and operator of Oh Cakes near Invercargill, New Zealand, was contracted to produce a cake for an engagement party by the bride-to-be's sister.
The customer had $30 (~$25) left on a $50 (~$40) voucher after buying something else, and she asked McDonald to bake her a chocolate cake for the party.
The transaction rubbed McDonald the wrong way, according to a message she later posted on Facebook: "Your [sic] left with a $30 voucher and you want a cake still?? ok cool - give me some ideas?? oh wait you have none apart from wanting chocolate. I have a brilliant idea for your cake!!! - so here it is, your ? cake! Hope you learn your lesson."
The unnamed customer, who was understably shocked to discover the surprise awaiting her and 100 guests inside the "magnificently wrapped" cake box, responded to McDonald's post with her own status update: "We r just at my sister's engagement and got your cake, we and every1 else is absolutely disgusted."
When reached for comment this week, McDonald told the Herald on Sunday she had "no regrets at all about what I did."
"I feel she got what she deserved," she continued. "I don't make cakes as a business. It is just a hobby and I'm taking it all with good humour."
The incident incited such ire among locals that Invercargill's mayor Tim Shadbolt was moved to respond. "I think this must have been done with humour," he told the paper, "but sometimes humour can go terribly wrong."
Not in McDonald case: It seems she'll be getting the last laugh.
"Seems to be popping up everywhere," she wrote on Facebook after the ? cake story went viral. "Business opportunities have been thrown my way as well."
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Married mother of four, 36, who works at school cafeteria is charged with ? boy, 15, after 'having sex with friend's son'
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
A 36-year-old food service worker at a middle school has been charged with ? a juvenile.
Janelle Foley was arraigned on Thursday in Quincy District Court on four counts of statutory ? following her arrest at her home on Wednesday night.
It is alleged that Foley had sexual relations with a 15-year-old boy during the winter vacation who was described in court as a friend's son. It is not clear if the alleged victim is also a student at the middle school in Weymouth, Massachusetts. Authorities are investigating whether there is a second victim, alleged to be a young family member of Foley. School officials sent out an automated message to parents on Wednesday saying administrators were informed earlier in the day of an 'alleged incident' involving a Chapman Middle School employee that did not take place on school grounds, and that the employee had been placed on administrative leave.
According to CBS, Foley’s attorney William Sullivan said that his client has no criminal history and is a married mother-of-four children aged seven to 15 years old. Mr Sullivan said that Foley has problems with substance and depression. Foley's husband appeared in court for her arraignment today.
The 36-year-old was held on $5,0000 cash bail with GPS monitoring and was ordered to undergo mental health counseling.
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Rochester-area teacher accused of sex acts with student, 15, at her home
By The Associated Press
BRIGHTON, N.Y. -- A 31-year-old teacher near Rochester, N.Y., is facing charges after sheriff's deputies say she engaged in criminal sex acts with a 15-year-old student.
Rachel Santora of Brighton is charged with second-degree criminal sex act and endangering the welfare of child.
Santora engaged in criminal sex acts with the male student last summer while she was employed as a teacher in the Rush-Henrietta School District outside Rochester, Monroe County Sheriff's deputies said. The incidents occurred at Santora's home where she was tutoring the student, police said.
Santora was sent to the Monroe County Jail in lieu of $20,000 cash bail.
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Young_Chitlin wrote: »
He was not excersing and eating more than 2,000 calories a day.
Then he started excersing and ate only 2,000 calories a day.
Even though it was strictly McDonalds, it no wonder he lost weight. He never checked his eat habits before up until now.
He took a different route than the guy from Super Size me did.
Bet McDonalds owner loves this guy for making McDonalds seem "healthy". smh
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These story's b smh the so many functioning retards in this country
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@Sion @traestar @mryounggun @pralims @bambu @sully @jono
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2014/01/cooper_union_to_charge_tuition.phpTo: The Cooper Union Community
From: Richard S. Lincer
Date: January 10, 2014
Subject: Working Group Report
In late June 2013, an ambitious plan took shape to provide an alternative to a tuition-based financial plan for The Cooper Union. Authored by trustees, faculty, staff and alumni, this alternative came to be known as the "Working Group Report." In December, the board began a rigorous review of the assumptions underlying the financial plan that had been adopted by the board in April 2013, and studied in depth the specific recommendations of the Working Group.
This review was conducted by everyone on the Board of Trustees with the assistance of the Huron Group, The Cooper Union's financial consultants. Since the goal of the Working Group was to provide a plan that allowed The Cooper Union to provide full-tuition scholarships, the entire board supported the Working Group's ambitions and goals.
Despite agreeing with the goals of the plan, the board has reluctantly concluded that the Working Group recommendations cannot -- by themselves -- be prudently adopted as a means to assure the institution's financial sustainability into the future.
The Working Group plan puts forward a number of recommendations that are worth pursuing under any financial model. However, we believe that the contingencies and risks inherent in the proposals are too great to supplant the need for new revenue sources. Regrettably, tuition remains the only realistic source of new revenue in the near future.
We owe an enormous debt of gratitude to the members of the Working Group. In a very real way, their efforts typify those The Cooper Union has relied on for many years: faculty, students and staff putting their full energy and intelligence into the service of a larger ideal. Moreover, the Working Group undertook their work at a particularly difficult moment, because we face a $12 million structural deficit and because so many care so much about The Cooper Union and what it has represented. On behalf of The Cooper Union, the board extends its sincere and profound gratitude for the countless hours of work by a large and dedicated group within the community.
The efforts of the Working Group have value both because they identified a number of proposals that are worth pursuing and also because they reminded us that this crisis, while financial in origin, creates an opportunity to explore deeply the identity of the institution and its meaning within our extended community. The Cooper Union, after all, is more than a financial construct--it embodies a set of values. It is an ideal that moves faculty to teach and students to learn. It inspires the entire community to be as active and involved as it has been. While there have been substantive differences about how to move forward, we all have agreed that we must find a way to serve that ideal despite the constraints we currently face.
While we cannot now restore the full tuition scholarship, the board will commit itself to exploring Working Group recommendations, which -- coupled with investments in our academic program -- can continue to position The Cooper Union as the one of the most unique and exceptional educational institutions in the United States. As part of that long-term commitment, we will set out to develop the resources that can allow us to increase student aid over time, augmenting need-based financial aid and ultimately perhaps even restoring the full tuition scholarship.
We cannot reasonably project how or when we can restore this aspect of The Cooper Union's legacy. But as we work together to find new ways to get The Cooper Union onto stable financial ground, we will also work together to develop a contemporary mission for the institution.
We must, and will, find a way to move The Cooper Union ideal forward despite the changed economic circumstances in which we find ourselves. Despite the changes, our admissions will continue to be based strictly on merit. The spirit that animates learning in the classroom, the studio and the lab must remain fundamentally egalitarian. We must reaffirm our commitment to educating the working-class students for whom Peter Cooper founded the school in 1859.
The economics alone are bigger than tuition. The overall landscape of higher education and the economic realities of New York City are different. The Cooper Union's traditional tuition scholarship has benefited all students who can attend, but has never sufficiently addressed students' increasing living expenses. Historically, these costs may have been negligible, but they now constitute a barrier to participation for many prospective students.
For some students, a full tuition scholarship is not enough. The Cooper Union still attracts a sizeable proportion of students whose financial circumstances make them eligible for Pell grants (approximately 20 percent). Many of these students are able to commute to campus, but many others must find housing in order to attend. It seems imperative that we do better by these students than we do right now. In order to ensure the access that motivated Peter Cooper to found the school, we need to provide additional aid to ensure that any deserving student can attend.
To these ends, the board will constitute a group of trustees to work with faculty, students, administration, staff, alumni and friends to clarify the mission for the 21st century and to develop a strategic plan for implementing the mission. Foremost among their concerns will be sustaining merit-based admissions, increasing accessibility for students from all backgrounds and, to the extent our resources allow, adding resources to the overall tuition scholarship.
The committee will be reaching out to the community in the coming months and will ensure that this process is inclusive and transparent. We recognize there have been strongly felt feelings on both sides of the tuition issue. We also recognize that now is the time for The Cooper Union community to come together to build on all the strengths we can offer. The Working Group report can best be understood, we think, as a step in this process of looking carefully at our current realities and developing creative alternatives that can carry the institution forward. We look forward to continuing this process with the community.
We commit, as we have always committed, to access for everyone who deserves to get in, and to programs that deserve to be called the best.
Richard S. Lincer, chair
The Cooper Union Board of Trustees -
Smash on the waitress...
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Young_Chitlin wrote: »@Sion @traestar @mryounggun @pralims @bambu @sully @jono
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2014/01/cooper_union_to_charge_tuition.phpTo: The Cooper Union Community
From: Richard S. Lincer
Date: January 10, 2014
Subject: Working Group Report
In late June 2013, an ambitious plan took shape to provide an alternative to a tuition-based financial plan for The Cooper Union. Authored by trustees, faculty, staff and alumni, this alternative came to be known as the "Working Group Report." In December, the board began a rigorous review of the assumptions underlying the financial plan that had been adopted by the board in April 2013, and studied in depth the specific recommendations of the Working Group.
This review was conducted by everyone on the Board of Trustees with the assistance of the Huron Group, The Cooper Union's financial consultants. Since the goal of the Working Group was to provide a plan that allowed The Cooper Union to provide full-tuition scholarships, the entire board supported the Working Group's ambitions and goals.
Despite agreeing with the goals of the plan, the board has reluctantly concluded that the Working Group recommendations cannot -- by themselves -- be prudently adopted as a means to assure the institution's financial sustainability into the future.
The Working Group plan puts forward a number of recommendations that are worth pursuing under any financial model. However, we believe that the contingencies and risks inherent in the proposals are too great to supplant the need for new revenue sources. Regrettably, tuition remains the only realistic source of new revenue in the near future.
We owe an enormous debt of gratitude to the members of the Working Group. In a very real way, their efforts typify those The Cooper Union has relied on for many years: faculty, students and staff putting their full energy and intelligence into the service of a larger ideal. Moreover, the Working Group undertook their work at a particularly difficult moment, because we face a $12 million structural deficit and because so many care so much about The Cooper Union and what it has represented. On behalf of The Cooper Union, the board extends its sincere and profound gratitude for the countless hours of work by a large and dedicated group within the community.
The efforts of the Working Group have value both because they identified a number of proposals that are worth pursuing and also because they reminded us that this crisis, while financial in origin, creates an opportunity to explore deeply the identity of the institution and its meaning within our extended community. The Cooper Union, after all, is more than a financial construct--it embodies a set of values. It is an ideal that moves faculty to teach and students to learn. It inspires the entire community to be as active and involved as it has been. While there have been substantive differences about how to move forward, we all have agreed that we must find a way to serve that ideal despite the constraints we currently face.
While we cannot now restore the full tuition scholarship, the board will commit itself to exploring Working Group recommendations, which -- coupled with investments in our academic program -- can continue to position The Cooper Union as the one of the most unique and exceptional educational institutions in the United States. As part of that long-term commitment, we will set out to develop the resources that can allow us to increase student aid over time, augmenting need-based financial aid and ultimately perhaps even restoring the full tuition scholarship.
We cannot reasonably project how or when we can restore this aspect of The Cooper Union's legacy. But as we work together to find new ways to get The Cooper Union onto stable financial ground, we will also work together to develop a contemporary mission for the institution.
We must, and will, find a way to move The Cooper Union ideal forward despite the changed economic circumstances in which we find ourselves. Despite the changes, our admissions will continue to be based strictly on merit. The spirit that animates learning in the classroom, the studio and the lab must remain fundamentally egalitarian. We must reaffirm our commitment to educating the working-class students for whom Peter Cooper founded the school in 1859.
The economics alone are bigger than tuition. The overall landscape of higher education and the economic realities of New York City are different. The Cooper Union's traditional tuition scholarship has benefited all students who can attend, but has never sufficiently addressed students' increasing living expenses. Historically, these costs may have been negligible, but they now constitute a barrier to participation for many prospective students.
For some students, a full tuition scholarship is not enough. The Cooper Union still attracts a sizeable proportion of students whose financial circumstances make them eligible for Pell grants (approximately 20 percent). Many of these students are able to commute to campus, but many others must find housing in order to attend. It seems imperative that we do better by these students than we do right now. In order to ensure the access that motivated Peter Cooper to found the school, we need to provide additional aid to ensure that any deserving student can attend.
To these ends, the board will constitute a group of trustees to work with faculty, students, administration, staff, alumni and friends to clarify the mission for the 21st century and to develop a strategic plan for implementing the mission. Foremost among their concerns will be sustaining merit-based admissions, increasing accessibility for students from all backgrounds and, to the extent our resources allow, adding resources to the overall tuition scholarship.
The committee will be reaching out to the community in the coming months and will ensure that this process is inclusive and transparent. We recognize there have been strongly felt feelings on both sides of the tuition issue. We also recognize that now is the time for The Cooper Union community to come together to build on all the strengths we can offer. The Working Group report can best be understood, we think, as a step in this process of looking carefully at our current realities and developing creative alternatives that can carry the institution forward. We look forward to continuing this process with the community.
We commit, as we have always committed, to access for everyone who deserves to get in, and to programs that deserve to be called the best.
Richard S. Lincer, chair
The Cooper Union Board of Trustees
I'm not familiar with Cooper Union, I'm based out of South Jersey and go to Manhattan when there is a big event going on I need to go. Thats sad that they are charging tuition to a supportive university like that. With the growth of the MOOC and high level schools (Hatford, Stanford, Hartford, MIT, etc) that are jumping on the bandwagon and providing teacher taught online courses at the comfort of your own home, many of these colleges in my eye could possibly see a decrease in certain programs and decrease of students. So the importance of a degree is one of the major topics of discussion in this era of education. -
Married teacher, 31, 'repeatedly had sex with male student' at home and at middle school where she worked'
By SNEJANA FARBEROV
A married Michigan middle school teacher has been arrested and charged with having a sexual relationship a teenage student.
Sarah Raymo, 31, of Essexville, was taken into custody Tuesday and arranged on two counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct.
Raymo, an English teacher at T.L. Handy Middle School in Bay City, was ordered held on $250,000 cash-surety ahead of her preliminary hearing January 29.
According to the criminal complaint, the educator had sex with a boy between the ages of 13 and 15 at her home and at school. Investigators believe that the illicit affair between the teacher and her underage student started in 2012 and lasted into last year. Bay City Schools Superintendent Doug Newcombe told Minbcnews.com that Raymo worked at the school for about three years.
According to the Bay-Arenac ISD directory, Raymo is an English language arts intervention specialist. The 31-year-old woman has been placed on administrative least in the wake of her arrest. Records cited by Mlive.com indicate that Raymo's maiden name is Dominowski.
According to an online wedding registry on the site TheKnot, Dominowski married Christopher Raymo in September 2012 in Essexville. The woman's husband and mother appeared at her arraignment this week to support her.
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No Black Kids, Latinos, or Girls Took AP Computer Science in Montana
By: Lindy West
Well, this is unsettling. According to this year's data, not a single female student, black student, or Latino student took the AP computer science exam in either Montana or Mississippi. That means it was pretty much just all white dudes. Not exactly a heartening indicator of all that "diversity in tech" that tech professionals are supposedly so committed to.
Via the National Journal:There are 11 states where not a single African-American took the test, and eight states where no Hispanics sat for the exam.
We're not talking here about people who passed or didn't pass, either. We're talking about people who simply took the test, which means African-Americans, Hispanics and girls aren't enrolling in AP computer science classes in the first place.
Of the approximately 30,000 students who took the exam in 2013, only around 20 percent were female, according to the analysis, and a tiny 3 percent were African-American. Just 8 percent were Hispanic.
One reason there are so few students enrolling in the class and taking the test is that AP computer science courses are more common in suburban and private schools, Barbara Ericson, a senior research scientist with Georgia Tech who compiled the data, told the blog Education Week, and those schools tend to be less diverse than urban and public schools.
Another potential reason is that there are so few women, African-American and Hispanic instructors teaching computer science and so few working in the computer science field. Students are more likely to pursue a course of study if they have mentors with similar backgrounds to emulate.
Obviously Silicon Valley doesn't have the power to reach over into rural Mississippi and drag girls and people of color into the exam room to take tests on subjects that their underserved schools don't even offer. But that doesn't mean that the tech world at large isn't at least partially responsible for what types of people see themselves growing up and working in that industry. When girls only get to see themselves as "booth babes" or harridan killjoys, and black kids hardly get to see themselves anywhere at all, what initiative do you expect them to take to fix your industry? Representation problems are self-perpetuating, and they're not the fault of teenagers. -
Mayor Says Christie Refused Sandy Aid Unless She Approved Development
By: Hazel Cills
New Jersey mayor Dawn Zimmer revealed that the administration of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie withheld Sandy relief money for Hoboken on MSNBC's Up with Steve Kornacki this Saturday.
Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno and Christie's community affairs commissioner Richard Constable apparently told Zimmer she would not receive the money unless she signed off on a redevelopment plan. The plan, which was to award the Rockefeller Group the right to redevelop several blocks of Hoboken, would have been a very lucrative deal for Christie.
But after Zimmer requested $127 million in Sandy aid, all she got was enough money to cover a single back-up generator and $200,000 in grants. Even though Christie came to Hoboken and assured residents they could count on him, his administration came back with less than 1% of what Hoboken asked for in relief.
Christie's administration, unsurprisingly, vehemently denies Zimmer's claims, deeming them "outlandishly false." But Zimmer has emails, public records and even her own personal diary entries as evidence. In one entry, she writes:
"I thought he was honest. I thought he was moral. I thought he was something very different. This week I found out he's cut from the same corrupt cloth that I have been fighting for the last four years."
Withholding Sandy relief money and then technically black-mailing the Hoboken mayor because she didn't approve a Rockefeller development deal can't be that bad for Christie, right? It's not like he's done anything bad for the New Jersey people recently because a public official wouldn't do what he said. -
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UPenn in shock as freshman track star, 19, jumps to her death
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
A popular track star at the University of Pennsylvania has committed suicide by jumping from a city center building, police have said. The death of 19-year-old freshman Madison Holleran has rocked the UPenn community and sent shockwaves through her hometown of Allendale, New Jersey. Holleran posted an image of a sunset over Rittenhouse Square to her Instagram account around 6pm on Friday night - just an hour before police say she jumped to her death. She was pronounced dead at the scene around 7pm, the New Jersey Record reported. No one else was injured.
Police have given no indication as to why the track star wanted to take her life. Her social networking accounts show her grinning with friends and teammates on vacations and at school. Holleran was a member of the university's varsity track and field team at UPenn. Her teammates were given the option of whether or not they wished to compete in Saturday's meet. The school also canceled formal recruitment for sororities, in which Holleran was set to take part. 'The entire Penn community is deeply saddened by the death of Madison Holleran,' Penn president Amy Gutmann said in the statement. 'She was bright and well-liked with an incredible future ahead of her. There are simply no words that can properly convey the sense of heartache that we all feel at such a tragic loss.'
'Our thoughts and prayers are with [Holleran's] family and friends,' said Steve Dolan, Penn's director of track and field, in a statement to the Daily Pennsylvanian. 'This is a challenging time for everyone involved with the program, but we will support each other in the weeks to come and help her teammates and friends find their own ways to honor her memory.' Holleran, who was majoring in philosophy, politics and economics, had been a standout track and soccer athlete in her high school. She originally planned to play soccer at Lehigh University before switching her mind, and choosing to run at Penn.
She had been named to the New Jersey Star-Ledger's all-state girls track team last year, while the Record named her its Spring Athlete of the Season and Girls Indoor Track Athlete of the Year in 2013, the Star Ledger reported.
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Urgent Search for 'Black Widow' Suicide Bomber, May Be Already in Sochi
By RHONDA SCHWARTZ, JAMES GORDON MEEK and BRIAN ROSS
Police in Sochi have launched an urgent search for a possible female suicide bomber who may have already made it past the ring of security set up for the Olympic Games. Hotel employees in Sochi told ABC News that posters with pictures and descriptions of a 22-year-old woman from nearby Dagestan were distributed over the weekend by authorities and a similar flyer was also seen posted at Sochi's airport. A spokesperson for the U.S. Olympic Committee reacted to the revelation by saying that the safety of Team USA is their "top priority."
"As is always the case, we are working with the U.S. Department of State, the local organizers and the relevant law enforcement agencies in an effort to ensure that our delegation and other Americans traveling to Sochi are safe," spokesperson Patrick Sandusky said. The woman featured on the wanted posters is identified as Ruzanna Ibragimova, using the nickname Salima, the widow of a militant reportedly killed in a shoot-out with police last year in Dagestan. She is described as being affiliated with the Caucasus Emirate, the terror group led by Doku Umarov that has threatened attacks against the Winter Games in Sochi. Ibragimova is described as having a 10 centimeter scar across the left cheek, a pronounced limp, and a stiff left arm that doesn't bend at the elbow.
A police wanted poster published by an online Sochi news website said she had left Dagestan earlier this month and arrived in Sochi about ten days ago. Security experts said it was troubling that she may have been able to get to Sochi despite the so-called "ring of steel" of security forces that President Vladimir Putin has said will make the Olympics safe from terrorists. "The fact that one individual either was able to stay in the area before the ring of steel went up or get through it really raises questions about the strength of the Russia security apparatus," said Christopher Swift, a Georgetown University professor who has studied militant groups in the North Caucasus.
"The specific worry is that she's a woman and because of that it's easier for women to infiltrate indoor or outdoor venues, that she could be a bomb carrier."
Swift said it is rare for the group's suicide bombers to operate alone.
"Usually, in the past, when we've seen female suicide bombings, there's either been two women who are both bombers," said Swift.
The FSB, Russia's domestic intelligence service preceded by the KGB, declined to comment for this report. -
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Hamburg, Germany, to ban cars in 2034
By Ronan Glon
The government of Hamburg, Germany, has announced it will ban all cars from driving in the city center by 2034 in a bid to significantly reduce greenhouse emissions.
The second-largest city in Germany is in the early stages of implementing an ambitious development plan called Grüne Netz (Green Network). It aims to replace several major roads with green spaces that will give residents a chance to engage in outdoors activities such as hiking, swimming and having a picnic right in the middle of the city. The green spaces will all be connected and they will stretch from downtown to the outskirts of the city, covering roughly 17,000 acres and 40-percent of Hamburg's total area.
With cars banned, residents will move around by riding a bike, taking various forms of eco-friendly public transportation or simply walking. The plan is controversial, but politicians suggest that a majority of residents support the project.
"Our residents are quite progressive. Many Hamburgers are willing to give up their cars, which is very unusual in Germany," said Jens Kerstan, the leader of the city's Green Party.
30 planners are working around the clock to turn the plan into a reality.
Officials hope the Green Network will significantly reduce the effects of global warming. The city is located right on the North Sea and it has witnessed the sea level rise by nearly eight inches over the past sixty years, making it a high-risk area for flooding. -
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Teacher and married mother of three 'had sex with student, 17, and sent him ? text messages and ? videos'
By SNEJANA FARBEROV
A high school math teacher from Pennsylvania has been charged with having sex with a student and sending the 17-year-old inappropriate text messages and videos. Erica Ann Ginnetti, a 33-year-old married mother of three, was arraigned Friday on more than a dozen charges of institutional sexual assault, corruption of minor and disseminating obscene materials to a minor. According to investigators, the math and calculus teacher at Lower Moreland High School first approached the victim last May during the senior prom, inviting him to come work out at her gym. A few days later the 17-year-old responded to Ginnetti with a text message, and the two began communicating on a daily basis.
The criminal complaint against Ginnetti says that over the next several months, the educator sent the minor sexually explicit text messages, photos depicting her wearing bikini, a thong and other underwear, and videos showing the woman undressing suggestively and performing a sexual act on herself, according to The Bucks County Courier Times. According to officials, the illicit relationship culminated in July 2013 when Ginnetti and the male student met for coffee in a Philadelphia Starbucks and then drove to an industrial park to have sex in in the teacher's car. The 33-year-old then allegedly dropped off her paramour back at the coffee shop and asked him not to tell anyone about their encounter. The trim, raven-haired teacher appeared at the District Court in Willow Grove this morning for her arraignment wearing a plaid jacket and large sunglasses, as seen on the local ABC.
She was released on $50,000 bail pending a preliminary hearing scheduled for Valentine’s Day, February 14. As part of her bail condition, Ginnetti has been forbidden to have unsupervised contact with any minors except for her own children, ages 8, 11 and 14. She must also surrender her passport, and the authorities will keep track on her using a GPS device. Lower Moreland School District Superintendent Dr. Marykay Feeley said in a statement this morning that the math, calculus and algebra teacher has been placed on an administrative leave ahead of her impending termination. The allegations against the married mother-of-three came to light Wednesday when police got a tip from someone who had overhead students at Lower Moreland discussing ? pictures showing a minor and Ginnetti doing 'sexual things.'
When police questioned the 17-year-old boy, the teen came clean about his affair with Ginnetti, who also confessed to having a relationship with the student, police said.
‘I would say that she treated her relationship with this student as she would have treated a relationship with an adult with whom she was involved,’ Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman told The Mercury News.
Police said they found several texts the lovers had exchanged discussing their July outing and one mentioning ‘a used condom that had been left in Ginnetti’s vehicle,’ according to the criminal complaint.
On the night of the alleged tryst, after he returned home, the student told police he got a text from Ginnetti asking him to ‘do it again.’
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Man Miraculously Survives Fall Through Wood Chipper
By: Taylor Berman
A man suffered serious injuries when he was sucked through an industrial-sized wood chipper earlier this week. Most of the man's body was crushed and shredded in the accident.
"Actually going through the machine itself wasn't the worst part about it," Frank Arce told KATU from his hospital bed in Vancouver, Washington. "What was the worst part (was) the not knowing what was going to happen."
Arce climbed into the turned-off machine to remove an object that'd become stuck. Not realizing Arce was inside, a co-worker turned the machine back on. While inside, Arce said he heard the machine's engine turn back on but by that time it was too late to escape.
Arce suffered a broken pelvis, seven broken ribs, a shattered ankle, bruised liver, broken leg, a collapsed lung, a crushed knee, and a deep cut that runs the entire length of his body in the accident. He's expected to remain in the hospital for at least three weeks.
Perhaps the worst part of the ordeal, aside from the gruesome injuries? Arce remained conscious throughout the shredding, which took 10 seconds in total.
Despite the severity of his injuries, Arce is thankful. "There was a thought (that I was going to die) but it was more like something was telling me I wasn't going to die that day," he said. "I felt I had a lot of angels out there with me that day – a lot of people looking out for me."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xFD-nREIRc