Manager arrested for garbage in lard
BEIJING - A factory manager in east China has been arrested for using grease from swill, sewage, pesticides and recycled industrial oil to make lard for human consumption, state media said Monday in the country's latest food scare.
Ying Fuming, a manager at the Fanchang Grease Factory in Taizhou, a city in Zhejiang province, sold the lard at half the price of other wholesalers while promising that his product met safety standards, the Shanghai Daily said. The factory was shut down and local health and food authorities began an investigation this year after an anonymous tip indicated that the plant "recycled large amounts of used grease to process substandard lard," the newspaper said.
It is the latest incident involving substandard or fake food products in China, where there is rampant counterfeiting of food and medicines. China's food safety watchdog announced last month that seven companies that produced salted, red-yolk duck eggs used potentially cancer-causing red dyes.
In 2004, at least 12 infants died from malnutrition after drinking phony formula in a city in the eastern province of Anhui. More than 200 babies suffered wasted limbs and swollen heads common symptoms of malnutrition.
The Taizhou factory, which opened in September 2005, was ordered shut down but continued operating at night, the Shanghai Daily said. It sold its product to retailers across the country, who sold it to clients, including hotels and restaurants, it said.
In a recent night raid, officers found 83,000 pounds of raw materials and 11,600 pounds of lard, the newspaper said without providing any more details. "Some was recycled edible grease, such as oil refined from swill and cooked oil," it said. "Some was grease rendered from sewage, and some was recycled industrial grease."
By law, only pure fat from hogs can be used to produce edible lard, the newspaper said. Samples from the Fanchang factory showed an acid value more than 11 times higher than the national limit, it said.
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Where were these women at when I was 14,15 (and so on) and was walking around loose with a case of perpetual priapism?
I am convinced that all boys of this age ought to be locked away in a convent till they're 40...ooops! That would kinda' defeat the purpose wouldn't it...
We've got some strong contenders for "Parents of the Year" here.
A 2-month-old girl was in good condition Monday after being hospitalized with a blood-alcohol level more than four times the legal limit for an adult driver, police said.
The infant was taken to Memorial Hospital early Sunday with a blood-alcohol level of 0.364 percent and was being treated in the intensive-care unit. "I'm told by the hospital that the child is in good condition," police Lt. Rafael Cintron said. He declined to release any further details.
Hospital spokeswoman Sharon Miracle said alcohol is "virtually a poison" at levels as high as those found in the infant. "Any time you give alcohol to a child, and at that quantity, it is extremely dangerous," she said. At that level, it could possibly kill an adult, much less a tiny baby.
Authorities were still investigating how the girl ingested the alcohol. Cintron said the incident was being investigated as child abuse. Authorities said they believe the mother's boyfriend dropped the woman and child at the hospital and left. They said the mother had given conflicting stories and the whereabouts of the boyfriend were unknown.
The El Paso County Department of Human Services was given custody of the baby, Cintron said. May that poor little girl recover fully and quickly, and never ever be returned to the people who did that to her.
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...I work for a private social services agency, and we see stuff like this on a regular basis. Makes you want to take the parents and just start beating them until they figure it out.
Then beat them some more because they were that stupid in the first place.
Mike
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I was gonna guess that maybe she got into the cabinets, or something and found rubbing alcohol. Then, I realized she's ONLY 2 months old. I'm not a real big fan of gov't intrusion into reproduction, but some people just need to be sterilized.
Wonder if she had a cold/fever and was given a LETHAL hot toddie, or something with whiskey. I was given that as a child, but in SMALL doses, with honey. Sounds like this one was out of that scene in Sweet Home Alabama:
"Oh, you have a baby.....IN A BAR!"
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Rubbing alcohol isn't ethanol, they put whiskey in the kid's bottle. Parents knew what they were doing was wrong. Just spectacularly bad judgement.
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Back in the olden days of La Belle France, when alcohol (red wine) consumption was much higher than today, kids were given red wine at a very early age, starting with milk for infants.
IIRC, this was changed after WWII, when the gvt promoted giving milk to children, instead of red wine (which was seen as nutritious and health-building, even if kiddies showed up drunk at school).
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I remember this one poor individual who was utterly perplexed by being arrested for being staggeringly drunk--because he didn't drink. But his blood alcohol was sky high.
Turned out that he had a rare condition that fermented carbohydrates in his digestive tract, so he was a walking beer machine.
He was given some drugs to help, but was basically condemned to the Atkins diet for the rest of his life.
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I'm what might be considered a "regular" at a neighborhood watering hole. I've known the owner for almost 20 years and had the same bartender for about 17 of that.
I can't tell you the number of times I've seen newborns or infants only several weeks old brought into the bar along with their mother or parents.
It's so commonplace we don't even think about it anymore as scandalous (it's annoying when the kid starts to cry however).
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Greg we have the same thing here at our pub. It's a family thing. The locals would beat the stuffing out of someone that started to give their kids booze....
So why isn't this mom in jail right now? I'm guessing the victim crowd would raise a fit.
EASTON, Pennsylvania (AP) -- A man who pleaded guilty to molesting two girls told a judge he did it because of his wife's excessive bingo playing. Ahh, I see. It's her fault! Well, look at it this way: At least it shows that in his heart of hearts he knew it was wrong.
"My wife was never home," Floyd Kinney Jr. said during his plea hearing Friday. She did it on purpose! I'm the real victim here!
Kinney's explanation did not sit well with Northampton County Judge F.P. Kimberly McFadden, Be careful, Floyd. The judge is a woman.
"Some people, when their wives are not home, decide to do other things, like clean their living rooms," McFadden said. "Your behavior is beyond the pale." "Hey, it's all I could think of!"
Kinney, 49, said his wife would sometimes argue with him over money and that he was angry she was spending too much on bingo. She made me so mad!
"She would be going to bingo three, four times a week. I told her to stop going to bingo, and she said, 'If they had bingo every day, I'd go every day,"' he said. So I thought to myself, "All right, I'll show you!
Records say Kinney molested one of the girls, now 26, from 1992-97. He sexually assaulted the second girl, now 17, for a year beginning in January 2005, records show. The math says the first girl was all of 12 when he started with her.
Kinney pleaded guilty to two counts of aggravated indecent assault. The felony charges carry a combined maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $50,000 fine.
"Floyd, meet Bubba."
"Bubba, this is Floyd. He is going to start rooming with you shortly. You can pick a name for him them."
"Err, Your Honor, what would the fine be for no time spent in jail?"
Defense attorney Richard Yetter said his client was not articulate and may not have been doing a good job of conveying his rationale to the judge. Well, looks like Richard did his job right up until the end.
But McFadden said she found Kinney capable of explaining himself. "I think he is telling me exactly what was going on," the judge said. "His wife was not home so he was going to perpetrate on someone and he picked these two children." You've got 20 years to look forward to your big roommate who, when the guards aren't looking, is going to perpetrate on someone and he will pick you.
Flatulence brought 99 passengers on an American Airlines flight to an unscheduled visit to Nashville early Monday morning. American Flight 1053, from Washington Reagan National Airport and bound for Dallas/Fort Worth, made an emergency landing here after passengers reported smelling struck matches, said Lynne Lowrance, a spokeswoman for the Nashville International Airport Authority.
The plane landed safely. The FBI, Transportation Safety Administration and airport authority responded to the emergency, Lowrance said. The passengers and five crew members were brought off the plane, together with all the luggage, to go through security checks again. Bomb-sniffing dogs found spent matches. The FBI questioned a passenger who admitted she struck the matches in an attempt to conceal body odor, Lowrance said. The woman lives near Dallas and has a medical condition.
The flight took off again, but the woman was not allowed back on the plane. "American has banned her for a long time," Lowrance said. She was not charged but could have been. While it is legal to bring as many as four books of paper safety matches onto an aircraft, it is illegal to strike a match in an airplane, Lowrance said.
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Holy Shit ! It's a miracle she didn't ignite the methane and blow the plane out of the sky. Must have been potent stuff if she couldn't stand it either.
SANTIAGO - Augusto Pinochets family saw his health improvement Monday as almost a miracle after the ex-dictator, who has never faced trial for his regimes abuses, underwent surgery for a major heart attack.
The 91-year-old former strongmans family feels calmer after doctors announced Monday the risk of death had diminished following Sundays surgery, said his eldest daughter, Lucia Pinochet Hiriart. Its almost a miracle, she said.
Pinochet awoke Monday and recognized and spoke with those who visited him, doctor Juan Ignacio Vergara told reporters. Did he recognize the process servers?
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Turkish soldiers and police on Monday fired warning shots into the air to prevent an angry crowd from lynching a man accused of raping several girls and killing two of them in southeastern Turkey. The crowd attacked the state hospital and broke its windows in a bid to lynch the suspect in the southeastern city of Sirnak, the state-owned Anatolia news agency reported. The man was brought to hospital after being reportedly beaten up by fellow inmates.
The man, captured two weeks ago, has reportedly confessed to killing a girl in 1999 and raping and killing another one earlier this year. The suspect who is on trial was also accused of raping six other girls in the province, bordering Iraq.
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Does the confession of a crazy person override the lack of four male witnesses?
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It was a blow for chess when a player was caught for the first time using an electronic device during a FIDE tournament in the country.
Umakant Sharma was caught with a blue tooth device hidden in his cap when random checking was conducted during the seventh round of the Air Marshal Subroto Mukerjee Memorial All India Open FIDE Rating Chess Tournament.
Sharma, top seeded with ELO 2384, was playing with black pieces against International Master Rahul Shetty.
The arbiters were still to decide what action should be taken against Sharma as it was a maiden attempt by a player in the country to use some means of communication during a match.
FIDE rules for carrying electronic communication device say: "During play the players are forbidden to make use of any notes, sources of information, advice, or analyse on another chessboard."
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Former Union coal minister Shibu Soren was sentenced to life imprisonment by a Delhi court on Tuesday for his involvement in the 1994 abduction and murder of his private secretary Shashi Nath Jha.
On November 28, Soren became the first cabinet minister to be convicted of murder.
Soren, who is the chief of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM), a constituent of the ruling UPA, was present in the packed courtroom when the judge handed out the sentence at 6.20 pm Surrounded by policemen, he looked pale, though his supporters started raising slogans in his support.
Additional Sessions Judge BR Kedia also ordered Soren to pay Rs 5 lakh to Jhas mother and two daughters as compensation.
According to legal experts, Soren, a six-time Lok Sabha member, can retain his membership of the House if he appeals against his conviction and sentence within the next three months.
Four others, whom the court had found guilty along with Soren, were also sentenced for life. Nand Kishore Mehta alias Nandu, Shailender Bhattacharaya, Pashupati Nath Mehta alias Posho and Ajay Kumar Mehta were also fined Rs 15,000 each.
Although Soren has been convicted of conspiracy to murder, and not the deed itself, the CBI, the prosecuting agency in the case, made a strong plea for awarding him and his fellow convicts, the death sentence. It cited the examples of the Parliament attack case and the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, in which the conspirators too were given death sentences by the court.
In response, Soren's counsel RK Anand pleaded that his client should not be given death, considering his age, ill health and stature as a tribal leader.
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Manager arrested for garbage in lard 
SANTIAGO - Augusto Pinochets family saw his health improvement Monday as almost a miracle after the ex-dictator, who has never faced trial for his regimes abuses, underwent surgery for a major heart attack.
Turkish soldiers and police on Monday fired warning shots into the air to prevent an angry crowd from lynching a man accused of raping several girls and killing two of them in southeastern Turkey. The crowd attacked the state hospital and broke its windows in a bid to lynch the suspect in the southeastern city of Sirnak, the state-owned Anatolia news agency reported. The man was brought to hospital after being reportedly beaten up by fellow inmates. 
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