Friday, February 1, 2013

China Beijing ( Smog so bad- They were masks at their desk Job )

Beijing office workers wear 'gas masks' at their desks as hazardous smog envelops city

Office workers in Beijing have resorted to wearing gas-mask style protective headgear at their desks as residents across northern China battled through choking pollution.

A woman wearing a mask for protection from pollution walks through the haze in Beijing on Jan 29, 2013. Photo: REUTERS/Jason Lee

7:59AM GMT 29 Jan 2013

Air quality levels rose above index limits in Beijing amid warnings that the smog may not clear until Thursday.

Visibility was reduced to around 200 metres in the centre of the capital, where mask-wearing pedestrians made their way through a murky haze, despite warnings from authorities to stay indoors unless absolutely necessary.

In a Beijing city office visited by news agency Agence France-Presse, up to 20 workers wore the protective headgear at their desks, and the cloud of pollution shrouded large swathes of the country for the second consecutive day.

State broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV) showed vehicles using full headlights in mid-morning to light a way through the smog, mainly in the badly affected central province of Henan.

A total of 109 flights were cancelled at Zhengzhou Airport in Henan, said CCTV, adding that the haze would last until Thursday.

China ( Blogger who was jailed for 9 months - Speaks out ) Human rights

Chinese blogger jailed for 'disrupting traffic' fails to have sentence overturned

A female Chinese blogger who was jailed for nine months for "disrupting the traffic" has failed to get her sentence overturned on appeal, highlighting rising Chinese government fears over the power of online activism.

Wang Lihong was arrested last April as China's government mounted a clampdown on activists, lawyers and bloggers in the wake of the Arab Spring uprisings Photo: AP

By Peter Foster, Beijing

5:15PM BST 20 Oct 2011

Wang Lihong, 55, was a previously little-known activist who in recent years had attracted a sizeable online following for her work publicising injustices, land grabs and corruption by local government officials.

She was arrested last April as China's government mounted a clampdown on activists, lawyers and bloggers in the wake of the Arab Spring uprisings. In September she was jailed for nine months after what her lawyers said was a peremptory hearing.

Her supporters say the charges of "disrupting the traffic" were trumped up after she attended a peaceful protest outside a court in the southern city of Fuzhou where three women whom she had supported were being tried for 'slandering' a government official.

Analysts say her case – which was brought to wider attention by the artist Ai Weiwei, who was himself detained without charge for 81 days earlier this year – hints at growing nervousness among China's security apparatus at the power of the internet to magnify dissent.

Over the last two years China's online landscape has been transformed by the explosion of interest in Sina Corporation's Weibo tool, a Twitter-like microblogging service that has garnered 200m users in just two years.

Florida Keys ( 56 yr old diver died after being down 25 minutes )

Diver dies while exploring Key Largo wreck site

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A 56-year-old Ohio man has died while diving the Benwood wreck site offshore from Key Largo.
The Monroe County Sheriff's Office says Ronald Dye of Grove City, Ohio, and his dive buddy entered the water at 9:15 a.m. Wednesday from the commercial dive vessel Tropical Adventures. The captain told police the dive buddy surfaced about 25 minutes later and signaled for assistance.
A mate on board entered the water with a rescue buoy and helped both men back aboard the boat. Dye was unresponsive and the mate began cardiopulmonary resuscitation as the vessel started back to shore.
Dye's dive buddy told police that Dye ran low on air, so they surfaced. Dye was taken to Mariners Hospital in Tavernier. An autopsy will be done to determine the cause of death.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/01/24/3198691/diver-dies-while-exploring-key.html#storylink=cpy

Tucson Az ( 10 yr old girl drives to Circle K- Crashes through front door )

10-year-old at wheel of car that crashes into Circle K

2 hours ago • By Kimberly Matas Arizona Daily Star

A Sierra Vista convenience store became a drive-through Thursday when a woman let her 10-year-old daughter get behind the wheel of the family sedan.

Linda Morales, 31, was in the car and allowed her daughter to drive their 1999 Plymouth Breeze to the Circle K at 95 Rainbow Way, Cpl. Scott Borgstadt, spokesman for the Sierra Vista Police Department, said in a news release. The pre-teen successfully — though illegally — navigated the streets on the quarter-mile drive to the store, but once in the parking lot, she mistook the gas for the brake, and drove the car through the plateglass windows.
Fortunately, no one in the store or in the car was injured.
“The store front had excessive damage to the front doors and support beams. Per Sierra Vista Police Department procedures when a structure suffers extensive damage a city of Sierra Vista building inspector is called to assess the damage,” Borgstadt said. “Upon inspection, the business was deemed unsafe for occupation and closed for maintenance. Circle K’s maintenance crews worked throughout the night and had the damage repaired enough to open the store at 6 a.m. Friday.”
Morales was cited and released on scene for allowing an unauthorized minor to drive

San Francisco ( Coyote found disoriented in city- She gave up and was found in alley ) see photo

A terrified coyote found wandering San Francisco’s Mission District is recovering at a Silicon Valley wildlife center, rescuers said Friday.
The coyote might have inadvertently hitched a ride into the big city in a car, moving truck or shipping container, said Rebecca Dmytryk, director of the group WildRescue, a nonprofit that helped the animal.
City animal control officers found the female coyote, known as No. 57, hungry and delirious near the corner of Capp and 18th streets on Jan. 18.

“She was petrified, disoriented,” Dmytryk said. “She was at the end of the dead-end alley, facing away from people, hiding her head in the corner. She’d given up.”
Rescuers corralled the coyote and found she was emaciated, dehydrated and covered in fleas and ticks.
“Coyotes are really, really smart, and they just don’t usually act that way,” Dmytryk said. “If she were in her own neighborhood and she knew her way, she would have taken off.”
The dog is gaining weight and strength at the Wildlife Center of Silicon Valley, said Ashley Kinney, the wildlife rehabilitation supervisor who has been treating No. 57.
“She is actually doing really well; she is definitely improving,” Kinney said. “We hope to move her into our coyote pen with the other coyotes soon.”
Eventually, No. 57 will be released back into the wild, Kinney said.
Anyone who might have seen the coyote stumbling around the Mission should call the wildlife center at (408) 929-9453, rescuers said.
“Did they see an animal jump out of a car or a delivery truck?” Dmytryk asked. “If so, they should call.”

New Delhi India ( 27 yr old man -Gets 10 yrs in prison for rape of young girl ) 2011 case

New Delhi: A man has been sentenced by a fast track court here to 10 years in jail for illegally confining and raping a minor girl in his house.
Rejecting a plea for leniency on the ground that the convict had a wife and two children to support, Additional Sessions Judge Virender Bhat, who heads the fast track court at Dwarka, handed down rigorous imprisonment to 27-year-old Mohammed Arif saying he took advantage of a “defenseless” minor girl to commit rape which “is the most hated crime in the society”.

Protests against Delhi gangrape. AP

The court said taking too sympathetic view for such crime would be counter productive in the long run and against social interest.
“The victim was a minor as well as defenseless girl and the convict (Arif) took advantage of her such state and committed the ghastly act of rape on her while confining her in a room of the house in which he was residing,” the judge said and also imposed a cost of Rs 35,000 on the convict.
The prosecution had said that on December 16, 2011 evening, Arif had pulled the girl into his house in West Delhi while she was on her way home and had raped her.
She was returning from the nearby market where she had gone to buy eatables, the prosecution had said.
It also said that Arif had threatened to kill her if she revealed the incident to anyone.
The counsel for the accused had pleaded for a lesser punishment saying he has two minor children and wife and he is the sole earner in the family. The court, however, rejected the counsel’s submission saying, “The social impact of the crime, when it relates to the sexual assault upon a woman, which has a great impact upon the social order and public interest, cannot lost sight of while sentencing a convict.
“These kind of crimes require exemplary treatment and any liberal attitude shown by imposing meagre sentence and taking too sympathetic view would be counter productive in the long run and against the social interest which needs to be cared for and strengthened by adopting a deterrent sentencing policy,” the court said.

TURKEY (Missing Woman - MAN Found - Online person police are questioning him now ) Breaking Istanbul blog

Missing Staten Island woman Sarai Sierra’s Istanbul male online messager questioned, detained by Turkish police

UPDATE FOUND STABBED TO DEATH ( so sad )

The unnamed man had exchanged emails with the vacationing mother of two and had been in contact with her during her stay, say cops.

By Ginger Adams Otis / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Friday, February 1, 2013, 11:35 AM

AP

A CCTV video released by Turkish police on Jan. 29 shows a woman identified by cops as Sarai Sierra, 33, right, walking outside a shopping mall in Istanbul, Turkey.

Turkish police detained a man in Istanbul Friday after questioning him about online messages he exchanged with a missing Staten Island woman.
Sarai Sierra, a 33-year-old mother of two, went missing while vacationing alone in Istanbul. She was last heard from on Jan. 21, the day she was due back home.
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A police official in Istanbul said the man currently held by authorities had been in contact with Sierra during her stay in the city.

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