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Cooks recount horror of Indian school lunch deaths
An Indian woman sits beside a child who fell sick after eating a free school lunch, at a hospital in Patna, India, Thursday, July 18, 2013. Indian officials say at least 22 children have died and more than two dozen others were sickened after eating a free school lunch that was tainted with insecticide. India's midday meal scheme is one of the world's biggest school nutrition programs, covering some 120 million school children. (AP Photo/ Aftab Alam Siddiqui)
An Indian woman sits beside a child who fell sick after eating a free school lunch, at a hospital in Patna, India, Thursday, July 18, 2013. Indian officials say at least 22 children have died and more than two dozen others were sickened after eating a free school lunch that was tainted with insecticide. India's midday meal scheme is one of the world's biggest school nutrition programs, covering some 120 million school children. (AP Photo/ Aftab Alam Siddiqui)
Indian children who fell sick after eating a free school lunch lie at a hospital in Patna, India, Wednesday, July 17, 2013. At least 22 children died and more than two dozen others were sick after eating a free school lunch that was tainted with insecticide, Indian officials said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Aftab Alam Siddiqui)
An Indian cook distributes free school lunches to children at a government run school in Patna, India, Wednesday, July 17, 2013. On Tuesday, at least 21 children died and more than two dozen others were sick after eating a free school lunch that was tainted with insecticide, in Gandamal village in Masrakh block, 80 kilometers (50 miles) north of Patna. (AP Photo/ Aftab Alam Siddiqui)
An Indian man cries while carrying the body of his daughter who died after eating a free school lunch at a hospital in Patna, India, Wednesday, July 17, 2013. At least 21 children died and more than two dozen others were sick after eating a free school lunch that was tainted with insecticide, in Gandamal village in Masrakh block, 80 kilometers (50 miles) north of Patna. (AP Photo) INDIA OUT
PATNA, India (AP) ? Soon after they served the daily free lunch they had prepared for dozens of children at a rural Indian school, the two cooks realized something was very wrong. The students started fainting. Within hours, they began dying.
By Thursday afternoon, 23 children between the ages of 5 and 12 had died from eating food laced with insecticide and many others had fallen ill.
Authorities discovered a container of pesticide in the school's cooking area next to the vegetable cooking oil and mustard oil, but it wasn't yet known if that container was the source, according to Amarjeet Sinha, a top official in the state of Bihar, where the tragedy took place.
Some officials have said it appeared that the rice had somehow been tainted with pesticide and might not have been properly washed before it was cooked.
"It's not a case of food poisoning. It's a case of poison in food in a large quantity, going by the instant deaths," Sinha said.
More answers were expected Friday, when a forensic laboratory was to issue the results of its tests on the dead children, the food and the uncooked grain stored by the principal in her house, he said. Police were searching for the principal, who fled after the students started falling sick, Sinha said.
The cooks, Manju Devi and Pano Devi, told The Associated Press that the principal controlled the food for the free daily lunch provided by the government at the school. On Tuesday morning, she gave them rice, potatoes, soy and other ingredients needed to prepare the meal and then went about her business. As the children ate, they started fainting, the cooks said.
The two cooks were not spared either.
Manju Devi, 30, ate some of the food and fainted. Her three children, ages 5, 8 and 13, fell ill as well. All were in stable condition Thursday.
While Pano Devi, 35, didn't eat the tainted food, her three children did. Two of them died and the third, a 4-year-old daughter, was in the hospital.
"I will stop cooking at the school," she said. "I am so horrified that I wouldn't grieve more if my only surviving child died."
Sinha said one of the cooks told authorities that the cooking oil appeared different than usual, but the principal told her to use it anyway. Doctors believed the food contained an organophosphate used as an insecticide, he said.
The free midday meal was served to the children Tuesday in Gandamal village in Masrakh block, 80 kilometers (50 miles) north of Patna, the Bihar state capital.
Those who survived the poison were unlikely to suffer from any serious aftereffects from the tainted food, said Patna Medical College hospital superintendent Amarkant Jha Amar.
"There will be no remnant effects on them. The effects of poisoning will be washed after a certain period of time from the tissues," Amar said.
Amar said Thursday that the post-mortem reports on the children who died confirmed that insecticide was either in the food or cooking oil. He said authorities were waiting for lab results for more details on the chemicals.
India's midday meal scheme is one of the world's biggest school nutrition programs. State governments have the freedom to decide on menus and timings of the meals, depending on local conditions and availability of food rations. It was first introduced in the 1960s in southern India, where it was seen as an incentive for poor parents to send their children to school.
Since then, the program has been replicated across the country, covering some 120 million schoolchildren. It's part of an effort to address concerns about malnutrition, which the government says nearly half of all Indian children suffer from.
Although there have been complaints about the quality of the food served and the lack of hygiene, the incident in Bihar appeared to be unprecedented for the massive food program.
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Israel?s AG: Eliyahu?s candidacy for chief rabbi legally indefensible
July 16, 2013
Israel?s attorney general said the candidacy of Shmuel Eliyahu for Sephardic chief rabbi of Israel raised legal difficulties and could not be defended by his office.
While Yehuda Weinstein cannot officially bar Eliyahu from running for chief rabbi, the attorney general said Monday that he could not defend the rabbi should a challenge be filed against his candidacy with the Supreme Court.
Weinstein announced his decision at a hearing after reviewing Eliyahu?s responses to several questions about racist statements the rabbi had made. Weinstein had received several requests to prohibit Eliyahu, the chief rabbi of Safed, from running on the basis of the statements.
Eliyahu reportedly has said he will not drop out of the race.
?On Tisha b?Av night, the attorney general chose to trample on democracy,? Eliyahu?s office said in a statement following reports of Weinstein?s decision. ?It seems that the attorney general, who has permitted serious acts of members of Knesset against IDF soldiers and given support to the heads of the Islamic Movement, has decided to hold an ad hoc tribunal against Rabbi Eliyahu and turn himself into a prosecutor, judge and hangman.
Eliyahu wrote in a response to Weinstein?s inquiry about his alleged racist comments that he did not make many of the remarks attributed to him and that some were distorted by others.
Eliyahu has instructed Jewish residents of Safed not to rent or sell property to Arabs and, in 2010, he told the Israeli daily Maariv that ?a Jew should not flee from Arabs. A Jew should make the Arabs flee. There is a silent war going on here for land? and ?most of the violence in Israeli society stems from the Arabs.?
In his letter to the attorney general, Eliyahu said, ?I don?t understand what the problem is. Must I, as a rabbi, explain why I am against marriages between Jews and foreigners? Must I explain why I prohibit same-sex marriages? Must I explain why I am in favor of becoming religious??
The American Jewish Committee said in a statement issued Monday that it was ?deeply concerned? about Eliyahu?s candidacy.? AJC? rarely comments on internal Israeli elections.
?Tragically, Rabbi Eliyahu?s statements undermine the social fabric of Israeli society and the core tenets of Judaism,? said AJC Executive Director David Harris.
The Anti-Defamation League on Monday welcomed Weinstein?s recommendation against Eliyahu?s candidacy. ADL has publicly objected to certain positions adopted by Eliyahu.
?Rabbi Eliyahu?s racist statements and extremist views make him ill-suited to serve in such a high-profile and important Israeli government position,? said Abraham Foxman, ADL?s national director.
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ACLU: Police record license plates by the millions
Office Dennis Vafier of the Alexandria Police Dept., uses a laptop in his squad car to scan vehicle license plates during his patrols, Tuesday, July 16, 2013 in Alexandria, Va. Local police departments across the country have amassed millions of digital records on the location and movements of every car truck with a license plate using automated scanners. Affixed to police cars, bridges or buildings, the scanners capture images of passing or parked vehicles and note their location, dumping that information into police databases. Departments keep the records for weeks or even years. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Office Dennis Vafier of the Alexandria Police Dept., uses a laptop in his squad car to scan vehicle license plates during his patrols, Tuesday, July 16, 2013 in Alexandria, Va. Local police departments across the country have amassed millions of digital records on the location and movements of every car truck with a license plate using automated scanners. Affixed to police cars, bridges or buildings, the scanners capture images of passing or parked vehicles and note their location, dumping that information into police databases. Departments keep the records for weeks or even years. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
An Alexandria Police Dept. squad car is seen outfitted with a license plate scanner mounted to the trunk, Tuesday, July 16, 2013 in Alexandria, Va. Local police departments across the country have amassed millions of digital records on the location and movements of vehicles with a license plate using automated scanners. Affixed to police cars, bridges or buildings, the scanners capture images of passing or parked vehicles and note their location, dumping that information into police databases. Departments keep the records for weeks or even years. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
An Alexandria Police Dept. squad car is seen outfitted with a license plate scanner mounted to the on the trunk, Tuesday, July 16, 2013 in Alexandria, Va. Local police departments across the country have amassed millions of digital records on the location and movements of every car truck with a license plate using automated scanners. Affixed to police cars, bridges or buildings, the scanners capture images of passing or parked vehicles and note their location, dumping that information into police databases. Departments keep the records for weeks or even years. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? You can drive, but you can't hide.
A rapidly growing network of police cameras is capturing, storing and sharing data on license plates, making it possible to stitch together people's movements whether they are stuck in a commute, making tracks to the beach or up to no good.
For the first time, the number of license tag captures has reached the millions, according to a study published Wednesday by the American Civil Liberties Union based on information from hundreds of law enforcement agencies. Departments keep the records for weeks or years, sometimes indefinitely, saying they can be crucial in tracking suspicious cars, aiding drug busts, finding abducted children and more.
Attached to police cars, bridges or buildings ? and sometimes merely as an app on a police officer's smartphone ? scanners capture images of passing or parked vehicles and pinpoint their locations, uploading that information into police databases.
Over time, it's unlikely many vehicles in a covered area escape notice. And with some of the information going into regional databases encompassing multiple jurisdictions, it's becoming easier to build a record of where someone has been and when, over a large area.
While the Supreme Court ruled in 2012 that a judge's approval is needed to use GPS to track a car, networks of plate scanners allow police effectively to track a driver's location, sometimes several times every day, with few legal restrictions. The ACLU says the scanners are assembling a "single, high-resolution image of our lives."
"There's just a fundamental question of whether we're going to live in a society where these dragnet surveillance systems become routine," said Catherine Crump, a staff attorney with the organization. The group is proposing that police departments immediately delete any records of cars not linked to any crime.
Although less thorough than GPS tracking, plate readers can produce some of the same information, the group says, revealing whether someone is frequenting a bar, joining a protest, getting medical or mental help, being unfaithful to a spouse and much more.
In Minneapolis, for example, eight mobile and two fixed cameras captured data on 4.9 million license plates from January to August 2012, the Star Tribune reported. Among those whose movements were recorded: Mayor R.T. Rybak, whose city-owned cars were tracked at 41 locations in a year.
A Star Tribune reporter's vehicle was tracked seven times in a year, placing him at a friend's house three times late at night, other times going to and from work ? forming a picture of the dates, times and coordinates of his daily routine. Until the city temporarily classified such data late last year, anyone could ask police for a list of when and where a car had been spotted.
As the technology becomes cheaper and more widespread, even small police agencies are able to deploy more sophisticated surveillance systems. The federal government has been a willing partner, offering grants to help equip departments, in part as a tool against terrorism.
Law enforcement officials say the scanners are strikingly efficient. The state of Maryland told the ACLU that troopers could "maintain a normal patrol stance" while capturing up to 7,000 license plate images in a single eight-hour shift.
"At a time of fiscal and budget constraints, we need better assistance for law enforcement," said Harvey Eisenberg, assistant U.S. attorney in Maryland.
Law enforcement officials say the technology automates a practice that's been around for years. The ACLU found that only five states have laws governing license plate readers. New Hampshire, for example, bans the technology except in narrow circumstances, while Maine and Arkansas limit how long plate information can be stored.
"There's no expectation of privacy" for a vehicle driving on a public road or parked in a public place, said Lt. Bill Hedgpeth, a spokesman for the Mesquite Police Department in Texas. The department has records stretching back to 2008, although the city plans next month to begin deleting files older than two years.
In Yonkers, N.Y., just north of New York City's Bronx, police said retaining the information indefinitely helps detectives solve future crimes. In a statement, the department said it uses license plate readers as a "reactive investigative tool" that is only accessed if detectives are looking for a particular vehicle in connection with a crime.
"These plate readers are not intended nor used to follow the movements of members of the public," the department said.
Even so, the records add up quickly. In Jersey City, N.J., for example, the population is 250,000, but the city collected more than 2 million plate images in a year. Because the city keeps records for five years, the ACLU estimates that it has some 10 million on file, making it possible for police to plot the movements of most residents, depending upon the number and location of the scanners.
The ACLU study, based on 26,000 pages of responses from 293 police departments and state agencies across the country, found that license plate scanners produced a small fraction of "hits," or alerts to police that a suspicious vehicle had been found.
In Maryland, for example, the state reported reading about 29 million plates between January and May of last year. Of that number, about 60,000 ? or roughly 1 in every 500 license plates ? were suspicious. The main offenses: a suspended or revoked registration, or a violation of the state's emissions inspection program, altogether accounting for 97 percent of alerts.
Even so, Eisenberg, the assistant U.S. attorney, said the program has helped authorities track 132 wanted suspects and can make a critical difference in keeping an area safe.
Also, he said, Maryland has rules in place restricting access. Most records are retained for one year, and the state's privacy policies are reviewed by an independent board, Eisenberg noted.
At least in Maryland, "there are checks, and there are balances," he said.
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Police raid Austrian's home, find 56 skulls
VIENNA (AP) ? Police in Austria's Burgenland province say they have charged a man with "disturbing the peace of the dead" after finding 56 skulls and other human skeletal remains in his home.
State broadcaster ORF said Tuesday that the bones were taken from graves of a church cemetery. It reports that police became suspicious after the unidentified 47-year-old man tried to sell three of the skulls and two thigh bones at a flea market.
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Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Golf fanatic spends 50 years amassing the world's biggest collection of balls (and he keeps all 36,000 at his home on FAIRWAY DRIVE)
- Dick Falenski, 74, from York, Pennsylvania, started collecting in 1965
- He has so many balls he's had to store them in custom-made furniture
- Mr Falenski says he aims to collect more than 50,000 unique golf balls
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A golf fanatic with a love of unusual golf balls has taken his passion to extremes and amassed what is believed to be the biggest collection of unique balls in the world.
Most golfers own plenty, but devoted Dick Falenski, 74, has amassed more than 36,000 differing sorts which he crams into his home - aptly located on Fairway Drive.
He collected his first ball more than 50 years ago and has now got so many he has to store them in specially-made coffee tables, gumball machines, and Victorian bathtubs in his basement.
Golfing fanatic Dick Falenski has collected more than 36,000 golf balls in his lifetime
Mr Falenski's collection is so vast that he has custom-made furniture to store them, but they still spill out
Mr Falenski's incredible collection features balls that belonged to U.S. presidents such as Bill Clinton, sports stars like Michael Jordan and others stamped with famous courses from around the world.
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The balls - some of which date back almost 200 years - have been gathered from 34 different countries with one of the earliest from St Andrews, Scotland, known as the 'Home of Golf', where he first played in 1965.
Rory McIlroy fan Mr Falenski also has balls from other Open venues such as Troon and Turnberry but is missing one in his collection - Muirfield, where the 2013 Open will take place this weekend.
Innovative storage: The balls - some of which date back almost 200 years - are even stored in a giant gumball dispenser
Mr Falenski, from York, Pennsylvania, said: 'I don't know what different ball I will get next but my wife jokes I might have to start looking for a different wife soon if I keep going at this rate.
'I used to collect a few here and there then one day I asked my friend who collected balls he found on courses what he did with his logo balls and he started giving me his spares.
'When he wanted to get rid of his collection of about 3,000 I bought them for $500 and things just escalated from there.
His collection of golf balls can be found hidden in all sorts of furniture, some acting as decorative designs
Devoted Dick Falenski, 74, has amassed more than a whopping 36,000 differing golf balls
Ironic: The world's largest golf ball collector even lives on Fairway Drive, and when he's not planning where to find his next new ball, Mr Falenski gets out onto the course to hit his favourite balls
'I started off just wanting golf courses and golf tournaments. And then I wanted universities. And then it was medical balls - hospitals, doctors, drug companies. And now I have just random brands - it's impossible to categorise them.
'There are probably a couple dozen or so from the UK too which take pride of place during the Open.
'I hope one day to top more than 50,000 in total although I have more to go before I get there. But the closer I get the more I want to hit that target.'
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